Your Daily Focus
Love Binds, Builds, and Brings
Scripture: But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all…
Our Reality of the Resurrection
Scripture: The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses said, If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise offspring for his brother.’ Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and…
Stewarding God’s Resources
Scripture: Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words. And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone’s opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances. Tell…
Chosen and Compelled
Scripture: And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who…
Broken but Not Crushed
Scripture: “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to…
Daily Focus: For the Sake of Others
Scripture: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.…
Daily Focus: Stand Firm
Scripture: Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Ephesians 6:13 ESV Observation: Having described the godly behavior of those walking in the love of Christ, Paul concludes his letter to the Ephesians with an inventory of spiritual…
Daily Focus: As Each Day Requires
Scripture: “Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires, that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD…
Daily Focus: Mutual Submission
Scripture: Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. Ephesians 5:21-22 NIV Observation: In chapter 5, Paul first addresses the broader church to walk out their faith journey in love, following the example of its bridegroom, Christ, who “gave himself up for us”…
Dry Bones
Scripture: Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.” Ezekiel 37:4-5 ESV Observation: Angered that Israel had repeatedly profaned his holy name to…
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