1 Sam 12:1-25. The prophet Samuel helps Israel acknowledge their sin, but then brings their focus to God’s faithfulness despite all their failures. He never forsook them and their failure was never the end, for God gives new beginnings. There may be bad decisions or failures behind us and we...

Luke 12:35-59. What does it mean to be ready for the Lord’s return? How can I ensure that I am spiritually awake and not sleeping? Are there varying degrees of rewards and judgment? Oh may we be ready, awake, serving and watching for the Lord’s return! 

Luke 12:12-34. In this heart searching passage, Jesus warns against covetousness, the insatiable desire and greed that always wants more. He tells the parable about the foolish farmer who has not consider eternity and only stored up treasure on the earth. Jesus clarifies that life is not about storing up...

Luke 12:1-12. As Jesus exposes the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, he warns his own disciples to avoid legalism, external forms of religion, and the hypocrisy it produces. May these words search our own hearts also, to stay under grace and under the healthy conviction and guidance of the Holy Spirit....

1 Cor 12:11-27. Paul uses the example of the human body to teach about the unity and diversity of the church. He demonstrates that the church is a spiritual organism made up of individual gifted members who are joined to Christ’s life. But what is “body life” and how can...

2 Cor 12:9. If we could Counsel God regarding His plan for our lives, we might suggest he leaves out the trouble, valleys, thorns, but maybe God had a plan to somehow work and bless us through those things? 

Ex 12:3-11. Not only was the Passover a memorial, in that it looked back to the deliverance of the Jews from Egypt, but it was also prophetic or typical in that it looked ahead to Jesus, the true Passover Lamb. We stand in wonder as we recognize how the various...

Nehemiah 12:1-47. What a spectacle it must have been! Two large thanksgiving choirs marched around the circuit of the wall, in opposite directions, meeting together at the temple. The voices, singing, cymbals, shofars & stringed instruments sounded out across the city. On this special day of dedication, recognizing what God...

Heb 12:5-11. We don’t always understand why bad things happen in life, but we do know that God uses things in life to deal with us or discipline us. He desires to bring us back to a relationship of faith in Him and also works to help keep us there....

Dan 12:5-13. What are we to make of the days we live in? What is the timeline in God’s program? Will there be a tribulation, a resurrection, a kingdom? How are we to understand prophecies that are yet to be fulfilled in the future?