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“O LORD, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells” (Ps 26:8). Do you love the church?  Do you love worshiping Jesus with the people of God in the house of God.  The Psalmist most certainly would answer this question with a resounding, ‘Yes’!  He loved the house of God – the […]

“And I sent messengers to them, saying, ‘I am doing a great work and I cannot come down.  Why should the work stop while I leave here and come down to you?’” (Nehemiah 6:3) Nehemiah was doing a great work for the Lord.  The great work he was doing was building a wall.  Specifically, the great work was […]

“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you” (Eph 4:32). Outside of Christ we are still in our sin and in rebellion against God – hating one another and exalting self.  In Christ, however, we have forgiveness.  This is the good news of the gospel!  Jesus has taken our sins – […]

John 13:1, “Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of the world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” It is unquestionable that the Gospel of John is a glorious account of the […]

1 Samuel 2:1-2, “And Hannah prayed and said, ‘My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. There is none holy like the Lord; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.’” 1 Samuel 1-3 records […]

Exodus 2:23, “Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.” God’s people are in slavery in Egypt. After enjoying some time of good favor and prosperity in this foreign land, “there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph” (Ex 1:8). And this began many years of harsh treatment and […]

Psalm 131:1,“O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.” God is God … and we are not! This truth is brought home in a succinct and straightforward way in Psalm 131 (one of the […]