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A text – Job 38:1-11 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:38:2 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?38:3 Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.38:4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me,Continue reading “Power and a Bigger Picture – Job 38”

A text – Mark 4:35-41 4:35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.”4:36 And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him.4:37 A great windstorm arose, and the waves beatContinue reading “Power Over Chaos – Mark 4:35-41”

A text – Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15 92:1 It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High;92:2 to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night,92:3 to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre.92:4 For you,Continue reading “Who’s Up for Giving Thanks? Psalm 92”

A text – Ezekiel 17:22-24 17:22 Thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of a cedar; I will set it out. I will break off a tender one from the topmost of its young twigs; I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. 17:23Continue reading “Planting Abundantly – Ezekiel 17”

A text – Mark 4:26-34 4:26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground,4:27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.4:28 The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, thenContinue reading “Parables and Abundance – Mark 4”

A text – Psalm 130 130:1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD.130:2 Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!130:3 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?130:4 But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered.130:5 IContinue reading “Hope in God – Psalm 130”

A text – 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 4:13 But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture–“I believed, and so I spoke” –we also believe, and so we speak,4:14 because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will bringContinue reading “Renewed Day By Day – 2 Corinthians 4:5-12”

A text – Mark 3:20-353:20 and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.3:21 When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for they were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.”3:22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by theContinue reading “Telling the Truth – Mark 3:20-35”

A text – Psalm 81:1-10 81:1 Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob.81:2 Raise a song, sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.81:3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our festal day.81:4 For it is a statute for Israel, anContinue reading “Rescue the Distressed – Psalm 81:1-10”

A text – 2 Corinthians 4:5-12 4:5 For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake.4:6 For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of theContinue reading “Love and Light Through Cracks – 2 Corinthians 4”