God knows you remember what you see, so He sets out visible reminders for His people. Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 79 Q. Why then does Christ call the bread his body and the cup his blood, or the new covenant in his blood? (Paul uses the words, a participation in Christ’s body and blood.) A. Christ has good reason for these words. He wants to teach us that as bread and wine nourish our temporal life, so too his crucified body and poured-out blood truly nourish our souls for eternal life. But more important, he wants to assure us, by this visible sign and pledge, that we, through the Holy Spirit’s work, share in his true body and blood as surely as our mouths receive these holy signs in his remembrance, and that all of his suffering and obedience are as definitely ours as if we personally had suffered and paid for our sins. Summary God's people crossing the Jordan river is one of the most important stories in the Bible, representing the culmination of God saving His covenant people and returning them back to the promised land. The previous generation of Israelites had seen God part the Red Sea so they could escape Egypt on dry land, and now their sons and daughters crossed the Jordan River at flood stage on dry ground. As amazing as those miracles were, God knows how fickle people's memories are. Within days of crossing the Red Sea, Israel was once again doubting God's power to save them, having forgotten what they had seen with their own eyes. So God orders Joshua to pick up some souvenirs on the way. Twelve men, one representing each tribe, were to carry a large stone from the middle of the Jordan and then set them up where the Israelites spent their first night back at home. God wanted them to have a physical reminder of what He'd done for them. God not only commanded them to set a monument to remember, but He commands them what and why to remember. This isn't just for you, He instructed them, but it's a tool by which you must instruct your children by reminding them of how God saves His people. After all, there's always one consistent reason that God does what He does and provides what He provides: So that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God (v24). Dig Deeper Just about every communion table in every Protestant sanctuary has the same words of Jesus carved into it: This Do In Remembrance of Me. God knows that you need a physical reminder of what He's done for your salvation. He's invited you to His Table for an ongoing, tangible reminder that Christ did something much more powerful than splitting the sea or heaping up a flooding river: that His body was broken, and His blood poured out so that you could have complete remission of all of your sins. Make sure that you heed the next invitation so that you can be reminded and the next generation can know the hand of the Lord is powerful and always fear the Lord our God. AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, who saves His covenant people and meets them in their weakness; ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Thank God for the reminder of His grace communion represents and that you'll eagerly anticipate the next meal; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Luke 17

John 14:15–17 (NIV) 15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give Summary This section of John 14 speaks to the distinct persons of the Trinity.

In eight words, the Bible obliterates the world's wisdom. 1 Corinthians 1:27-30 (NIV) 27  But God

Summary In 1 Peter we see the apostle do something that he was never planning to do: write to gentiles

Samuel has anointed David king, but Saul is still on the throne. 1 Samuel 17 (NIV) 17 Now the Philistines Judah... 3  The Philistines occupied one hill and the Israelites another, with the valley between them. 4   Saul said to David, “Go, and the L ORD  be with you.” -- 40  Then he took his staff in his hand, chose faith in a king like all the other nations to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles (1 Saul was no slouch - he stood a head taller than all the people (1 Sa. 9:2 & 10:23).

wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming (Ephesians 4: Granted, these grounds we read here in 1 Corinthians 16 are not as prominent and glorious as our scriptural From that day forward, Christians have been meeting together on what John designated as the Lord's Day (Rev. 1:10).

As the story turns to 1 Samuel, the spiritual darkness remains: the priesthood is corrupt, and the people dedicated by his loving mother to serve the LORD under the high priest Eli, whose own sons were wicked. 1 had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the house of the L ORD , where the ark of God was. 4  

that I never give false testimony against anyone, twist no one’s words, not gossip or slander, nor join (Genesis 3:1)" Simply causing man to question the validity of what God has said was effective then, and opportunities come; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - John

Numbers 20:1–13 (NIV) 20 In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin 4   Why did you bring the LORD's community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die Point 4 - Irresistible Grace Point 5 - Perseverance of the Saints Article 4: The Danger of True Believers true severity of Moses' sin: Moses had failed in his duty towards God, and that in three particulars. (1) Today: John 5

Ecclesiastes 7:1–6 (NIV) 7 A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than take this to heart. 3 Frustration is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. 4 Heidelberg Catechism Q&A: 42 Q. Since Christ has died for us, why do we still have to die? A. believes in Christ will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in Him will never die (John