You probably know people like this. Maybe you've even been a person like this! People who go through all of the proper religious motions: show up like clockwork to church on Sundays Even things that are otherwise holy, like attending worship services or participating in the sacraments Understand that such an experience of Christ may occasionally feel like a profound and extraordinary Today: John 14

God is firmly in control, even when it seems like He's missing. said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” 10 11   His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind. 12   Now his brothers   But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him. 19   “Here It's no wonder his brothers don't like him.

Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 103 Q. What is God’s will for you in the fourth commandment? A. Indeed we see language like that in this passage from Deuteronomy that every Israelite would have known Having given the Israelites plenty of time to get their act together, it might seem like God finally

Though a few faithful kings like Hezekiah sought to reform the nation and restore proper worship, the the LORD continued to send prophets to call His people back, but they refused to listen. 2 Kings 24:2–17 Nebuchadnezzar himself came up to the city while his officers were besieging it. 12 Jehoiachin king Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 11 Q. But isn’t God also merciful? A. the most frightening words of the entire Bible: 4 ...the LORD was not willing to forgive This hits us like

Don't just 'dare to be like Daniel'. Dare to trust Daniel's God. 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 Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 127 Q. What does the sixth request of the Lord's Prayer mean? A. our ungodly rivals, and the main lesson isn't to push you to be pious or that you should 'dare to be like

Genesis 32:9-12, 22–32 (NIV) 9  Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac ORD , you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’ 10 I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps. 11  Save me, I pray, brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children. 12 Canons of Dordt Point V, Article 12: This assurance of our perseverance, however, so far from making

to the woman. 5   “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like 10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” 11 And he 12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like

The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10  A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11  The It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12  And the gold of Whereas God verbally ordained the universe into existence like a mighty King, He intimately formed His prize creation into His own image like a loving Father.  

Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 106 Q. that Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount and elsewhere that Paul continues to build on in passages like This means that murder weapons have expanded from things like guns and knives to attitudes and behaviors like "bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, and every form of malice." language to describe this ongoing process: you are to put to death the misdeeds of the body (Romans 8:13

Do you feel like you're lost in the wilderness? Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 115 Q. Men like Moses and Isaiah experienced God's presence upfront and personally, but it was very much in This is why you need to develop a craving for God like David's. back to worship; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - John 15