Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 1 Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death? A.

The Bible speaks of God the Father as the source of creation (1 Corinthians 8:6).

Dig Deeper We saw earlier this week how the apocryphal books of 1 & 2 Maccabees give tremendous insight fallen Hebrew soldiers were gathered, they were found to be wearing some idolatrous jewelry. 2 Maccabees 12 Today: Acts 19

Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 10 Q. WITH GOD'S WILL: ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Acts 1

Summary In the movie Apollo 13, astronaut Jim Lovell, played by Tom Hanks, is seen gazing at the moon Psalm 8 reflects on Genesis 1 and calls us to praise God for his glory revealed in His good creation and in your life ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Mark 13

As awesome as that is, v7 reminds us that as a baptized member of the church, you're not just joined

the wicked. 9 Because you have made the LORD your dwelling place— the Most High, who is my refuge— 10 no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent. 11 For he will command his serpent you will trample underfoot. 14 “Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I Verses 3-13 go on to describe how God is our refuge. Verse 11 speaks of God’s use of angels in providing this protection.

10 So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king’s fury subsided. As Psalm 7:15–16 declares, He who digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit he has made. Haman’s gallows were turned against him, the Cross was the trap that crushed the serpent’s head (Gen. 3:15

Then she instructed him to say to Mordecai, 11 “All the king’s officials and the people of the royal to Mordecai, 13 he sent back this answer: “Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. 14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance 15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and And if I perish, I perish.” 17 So Mordecai went away and carried out all of Esther’s instructions.

Daniel 6:10–23 (NASB95) 10 Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously. 11 men [his rivals] came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God. 12 “The statement is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.” 13 Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 127 Q. What does the sixth request of the Lord's Prayer mean? A.