Summary Psalm 63 presents some of the most beautiful language ever written, conveying what our attitude It's as David joined with his people coming before God in worship that David beheld God's power and glory you back to worship; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - John

Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” 6  He said to me: “It is done This is the second of three times John records this in Revelation, and very consistent with the famous phrase with which John opens his gospel; He gives the water of life without cost to those who are John does the best he can, comparing it to the most beautiful jewels and gems that were known at the But it's the way the angel with John describes this city that intrigues us today.

Faithlife.com Revelation 5:9-14 (NIV) CONTEXT: John has been taken into the heavenly throne room where Summary What a scene, in which John in a matter of moments goes from weeping in hopeless anguish that Many angels joined in, writes John, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand (See 1:6.) By means of the incense of their prayers the saints even now reign upon the earth.

John spares us the logistic details here, not explaining if the spotlight moved from one individual to What's important in today's passage is another aspect that's conspicuously missing from John's account John tells of a second book: the book of life , and anyone whose name was not found written in the book If that we're the case, certainly John would mention those who passed the King's judgment. Those names written in the book of life are welcomed into the new heaven and new earth that John goes

the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us, 22  beginning from John   Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles. -- Acts 6: 3-6 (NIV) CONTEXT: This is a portion of the text we read last week in which the office of deacon was Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism. 6  Today: John 1

FaithLife.com Psalm 67 For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm. guide the nations of the earth. 5   May the peoples praise you, God; may all the peoples praise you. 6   Psalm 67 challenges us instead to seek blessing with God’s own outcome in view. This is the vision of Psalm 67 for the whole earth. And those people will join in worshiping the true and living God.

John's utilization of adjectives increases, however, to describe what he sees next. The scene, John writes, is like a bride, beautifully dressed for her husband . Any groom or father of the bride can appreciate the words John conveys this vision to us with! But John really doesn't tell us anything about what life will be like. John simply reports what he's been told by the One who was seated on the throne: "Behold, I am making

John records Jesus offering the Samaritan woman living water (John 4:10) and then later on he tells whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them (John But the trees John sees are no ordinary trees. life , as awesome and amazing as it is, is not even the most significant aspect of what's revealed to John So we end our year together in the Belgic Confession the way that John ends scripture: Amen.

When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17  Then Peter and John Philip was one of the men the church called on to help the widows (Acts 6) and who would go on in the When Peter & John give the Spirit by laying on their hands (Luke refers here to Spiritual gifts, not

Point 3 - Total Depravity Point 4 - Irresistible Grace Point 5 - Perseverance of the Saints Article 6: He's the God of peace: John Stott notes here that God is both the author of harmony and that He's the Today: John 16