The God of Wondrous things

Psalm 72:18  Blessed be the LORD  God,  the God  of Israel,  who only  doeth  wondrous things. Our passage this morning tells us that our God only does wondrous things. The Hebrew word translated wondrous can be translated, marvelous, wonderful, surpassing,...

Hope in God

Psa 43:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.The Psalmist here is not having a good day. He is found having a conversation with himself....

The cost of idolatry

Isa 46:6  They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.Would you note this morning that serving God or serving self will be costly. The question is not if I will serve...

Investor or Consumer?

Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.We live in a day and age of...

Sanctified Desires

Psalms 27:4 One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.Webster defines the word desire this way. An emotion or...