Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 103 Q. participate in the sacraments, to pray to God publically, and to bring Christian offerings to the poor (HC QA 103

Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 100 Q. well; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - 2 Corinthians 13

Faithlife.com Daniel 7:1–14 (NASB95) 1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon His throne was ablaze with flames, Its wheels were a burning fire. 10 “A river of fire was flowing And I kept looking until the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and given to the burning fire. 12 dominion was taken away, but an extension of life was granted to them for an appointed period of time. 13 One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was presented before Him. 14

Almost immediately after God had given them the 10 Commandments, they created a golden calf.

God gave us the second commandment, and reinforced that commandment with passages like Deuteronomy 4:15 -19 because it is so incredibly easy to fall into idolatry.

knowledge, wisdom and power, idols represent 'blindness, ignorance and shame' that 'can profit nothing (v9-10

. - Martin Lloyd Jones, circa 1959 Putting other 'gods' before the one, true, triune God is the very We're not even 10% of the way into God's law, and already the load is crushing.

Numbers 22:18–35 (NIV) 18  But Balaam answered them, “Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the L ORD my God. 19  Peter expresses it the most clearly in the second chapter of his second letter: But there were also false destructive heresies... 3  In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories... 15 straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness. 16

come to His table; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Luke 19

Christ's power is made perfect in weakness (2 Cor. 12:9), because a weak person realizes how much they strengthened by your Father through His Spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your heart (v16-17a fullness of God; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Luke 12