Today’s reading is Psalm 51: Today’s Psalm is one of the more heart-wrenching passages in all the Bible. This is the Psalm that David wrote after he had been caught in his sin. Nathan the prophet confronted David over his sin. … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Romans 8: 1-17 This is why we had to walk through the sin and agony of Chapter 7, why we had to experience that frustration with yourself and your sin. We are tempted to beat ourselves up, to … Continue reading
Today’s reading is 1 John 1: 5-10 Today’s passage is only six verses. But man, oh man, there’s a lot there. He starts talking about how God is light, and in Him, there is no darkness and that light and the … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Acts 7: 21-40 Yesterday Stephen goes through the Old Testament stories to show how God was always reaching out to His people. God was (and is) always at work to draw His people back to Himself. He is … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Luke 17: 1-13 Today we see Jesus teaching about forgiveness. He tells the disciples that if someone sins against them and they repent and ask forgiveness seven times, you must forgive them. Why seven? That’s a powerful number in Jewish … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Luke 7: 36-50 Today in our reading we see Jesus forgive the sinful woman. When the Pharisee mentions that Jesus, if He were a prophet would be aware of the sinfulness of the woman touching him, he … Continue reading
Yesterday we talked about the bad news. Everyone one of us, we are all broken. You. Me. Each of us. We’ve all messed up, we’ve all made mistakes, we’ve all failed in some way. We’ve all blown it. It’s ok. We … Continue reading
So, something funny happened last week in 4th grade Sunday School here at St. Matthew’s. My wife was teaching the kids and was telling them about what it means to follow Jesus and how following Jesus changes your life. And … Continue reading
Forgiveness is a powerful thing. Grace is a life-changing thing. To know that someone looks at the worst thing you’ve done, the worst thing you can imagine, and say to you, you are forgiven, that changes everything. That’s exactly what God … Continue reading
Today’s passage is one of those good ones. One that you need to go to your Bible and highlight, dog ear, and keep coming back to over, over, and over again. Read this. And then reread it again. Listen to 1 … Continue reading
