The Choice of Consequences

2 Samuel 24:10-15, 17“David felt guilty after he had numbered the army. David said to the LORD, ‘I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O LORD, please remove the guilt of your servant for I have acted foolishly.’ 11 When David got up the next morning, the LORD has...

Rest in the Midst of the Daily Grind

Matthew 11:28: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”Mt:14:23: “And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.”...

Sacrifice of Praise

2 Samuel 24:24 – “…I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing.”Hebrews 13:15 – “Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise–the fruit of lips that openly...

A Test for the Heart

Proverbs 17:3 – “The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the LORD tests the hearts.”Jeremiah 17:10 – “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct,...

Children of the Promise

Galatians 4:22, 23, 28-31For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.  23  But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the...

The Strength of Weakness

Galatians 4:13″But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you, and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me.”Weakness.  Despised by our culture and not something to be...

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