Church Blog (Page 238)

Church Blog (Page 238)

Thinking of Prayer as Jesus Taught

Thinking of Prayer as Jesus Taught By Oswald Chambers May 26, 2017  Pray without ceasing… —1 Thessalonians 5:17   Our thinking about prayer, whether right or wrong, is based on our own mental conception of it. The correct concept is to think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts. Our blood flows and our breathing continues “without ceasing”; we are not even conscious of it, but it never stops. And we are not always…

The Good or The Best?

The Good or The Best? By Oswald Chambers May 25, 2017 If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left. —Genesis 13:9 As soon as you begin to live the life of faith in God, fascinating and physically gratifying possibilities will open up before you. These things are yours by right, but if you are living the life of faith you will exercise your…

Verse of the Day – Numbers 6:24-26 KJV

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:    The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:    The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace.

The Delight of Despair

The Delight of Despair By Oswald Chambers, May 24, 2017  When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. —Revelation 1:17    It may be that, like the apostle John, you know Jesus Christ intimately. Yet when He suddenly appears to you with totally unfamiliar characteristics, the only thing you can do is fall “at His feet as dead.” There are times when God cannot reveal Himself in any other way than in His majesty, and it is the…

Our Careful Unbelief

Our Careful Unbelief by Oswald Chambers May 23, 2017  …do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. —Matthew 6:25    Jesus summed up commonsense carefulness in the life of a disciple as unbelief. If we have received the Spirit of God, He will squeeze right through our lives, as if to ask, “Now where do I come into this relationship, this vacation you have planned,…

Verse of the Day – Jeremiah 33:2-3 KJV

² Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, to establish it; the Lord is His name:  ³ Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

God Made Us Unique

God Made Us Unique By Billy Graham   •   May 22, 2017 Our soul waiteth for the Lord . . . —Psalm 33:20 I am a soul—and I have a body! The body is the house in which the soul lives. When Oliver Wendell Holmes was in his 80th year, a friend hailed him and asked, “How are you?” “I’m fine,” said Holmes, “the house I live in is tottering and crumbling, but Oliver Wendell Holmes is fine, thank you.” In…

You Want Me To Do What?

A couple of weeks ago, Doug Reynolds, the Leader of the ‘Young Adults in Denial’ Sunday School class stopped me just before morning services started.  He said that he and Carol would be going on vacation soon and asked if I would do the lesson for today, May 21st. Despite my shock (Because if there is anyone not qualified to lead a Sunday School class, I would think it’d be me!) I said “Sure.”  But, what else could I say? …

Jesus Is Transcendent

Jesus Is Transcendent By Billy Graham   •   May 21, 2017 Come to Christ, who is the living Foundation of Rock upon which God builds; though men have spurned him, he is very precious to God who has chosen him above all others. —1 Peter 2:4 (TLB) No personality in history stands above Jesus Christ. Agnostics and atheists have found fault with Christian ideas, but they can never find fault with the Person of Jesus Christ. They have found fault with…