Surrender Control to God (Daniel)

Surrender Control to God (Daniel)

Surrendering Control to God August 23, 2020 One of the greatest prayers ever penned is by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. It’s become known as the Serenity Prayer. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can,...
Coming Alongside Others

Coming Alongside Others

August 16, 2020 Ezekiel – Coming Alongside Others A child about five anxiously watches her father as he takes the training wheels off her bicycle.  She fears skinned knees and the thoughts of failure. “What if I can’t ride it?” she thinks to...
Moving from Lament to Hope

Moving from Lament to Hope

Moving From Lament to Hope August 9, 2020 In our journey through the Bible, we have come to the book of Lamentations.   In the word “Lamentations,” you can hear the root word, “Lament.”   Some people think a lament is a complaint, and...

Before I Formed You, I Knew You (Jeremiah)

August 2, 2020 Jeremiah was a PK, a priest’s kid. He grew up watching his father Hilkiah perform all the priestly duties at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.    As the son of a priest, Jeremiah was used to seeing people bring their sacrificial offerings out...

The Coming of the Suffering Servant

Isaiah 40-66 July 26, 2020 The Coming of the Suffering Servant Last week I introduced you to the prophet Isaiah in our journey through the Bible. Even though Isaiah is only one book in our Protestant Bible, scholars divide Isaiah up into two sections: 1 Isaiah,...
Reasoning With God

Reasoning With God

Reasoning With God July 19, 2020 First Isaiah Chapters 1-39 As Christians, we read the Old Testament in light of the New Testament and the New Testament in light of the Old. To fully appreciate the coming of Jesus Christ as the Messiah, as God’s gift to humanity...