Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 126 Q. Just like in a cheesy romantic movie, the wayward protagonist eloquently apologizes to the woman he loves , and just like that, all is better. ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Revelation 15

Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 125 Q. Summary The opening word to today's teaching from Jesus functions like a big STOP sign. perhaps even within your own life - to see the awful result of running after all sorts of worldly stuff like

Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 13: The Doctrine of God’s Providence Dig Deeper This is the kind of providence that we like. Then when those 'good' things don't always materialize, it quickly seems like this promise is just hot

dispersed them among the nations... and judged them according to their conduct and actions (Ezekiel 36:16 -19)." Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 11: The Deity of the Holy Spirit Since God defines things like mercy, love and kindness, it makes sense that He demonstrates those traits by showing grace to sinners like us.

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  Lots of people claim the LORD, but so many, like Balaam, make that claim for selfish gain. 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

And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. While those present were likely expecting a quote from one of the 10 Commandments, Jesus instead answers It is like looking everywhere around the house for your phone, only to realize that it is still in your They posed a question hoping he would pick one of the 10 Commandments as greatest, but instead Jesus

Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 12 Q. Isaiah confirms what we already know in the first half of v6: We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; It's verses like this that so many people with only a slight knowledge

After all, the Bible also refers to God using motherly descriptions as well (Isaiah 66:13)! is neither male nor female, why should we continually refer to Him in masculine, patriarchal terms like In other words, God sometimes uses earthly images to help us understand Him, like when the Bible speaks

Hebrews goes on to report that "It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins (Heb. 10 You likely have all sorts of problems and worries that you've set aside for just a few minutes as you

Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 112 Q. In v16-17, He tells His people to: Speak the truth; Render true judgments; Do not plot evil; Do not love Dig Deeper We always need to be careful with prophetic promises like what we just read.