Monday Jeremiah 17:5-8 This week’s focus is on the importance of having roots or being grounded in our faith. When we are “rooted,” we can withstand things that come our way because our foundation is solid. This passage in Jeremiah is a great place to start talking about being rooted. Here the prophet paints a...
Author: (Venus Wan)
September 17 – 21, 2018
Monday Matthew 13:1-23; Psalm 119:33-36 This week we consider one of Jesus’ first fully-developed parables. Our emphasis will be upon the sower and the hard ground “along the path” where the “seed” couldn’t take root before being “snatched away.” Jesus often used parables for public, larger group teaching, a method that perplexed many, including His...
September 10 – 14, 2018
MONDAY Isaiah 40:21-31 Waiting. No one likes waiting. Impatience stirs within us. Anxiety creeps in. The desperate need to take control starts to bubble up inside us. Waiting. Perhaps one of the most uncomfortable things we have to do is wait. Right now, I am in a season of waiting. Waiting on the Lord for...
September 3 – 7, 2018
MONDAY Romans 12:1-2 Every day Paul is urging his fellow Christians to present their bodies to God as a living and holy sacrifice. That means that every day that we are alive we should be living for God. We should be leaning into the day in order to live for God. Paul says this kind...
August 27 – 31, 2018
Monday Genesis 3:1-19; Habakkuk 1:2-4 Evil, Pain and Suffering: Why? The skeptic reasons, “If God is loving, all-powerful and all-knowing, how can He permit evil and its consequences? Since evil exists, God either is not as described or nonexistent.” Lee Strobel, in The Case for Christ, describes a cartoon featuring two turtles in conversation. Turtle...
August 20 – 24, 2018
MONDAY Psalm 14:1-3; Psalm 19:1-4; John 1:1-5 Creator or Randomness: Is there a God? Over these next two weeks, we’ll consider the “big questions” that most have pondered periodically. We start with the biggest question, the one on which all else hinges: Is there a God? The two broad, opposing camps here are theists—those believing...
August 13 – 17, 2018
MONDAY Acts 28:11-31 AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT The Book of Acts is so full of a reporter’s details, told so matter-of-factly that one can only conclude that all the events described—both ordinary and miraculous—actually happened! Being a physician (Colossians 4:14), the author Luke was used to dealing with the plain facts. Indeed, the earlier parts of...
August 6 – 10, 2018
MONDAY Daniel 6:1-24 The Book of Daniel is a prime example of leadership under pressure. It is difficult to pick out just one chapter to support this; Daniel 6 is just one example. Read the whole book! Charles Spurgeon puts it this way: “… these are times when we need to be as firm and resolute...
July 30 – August 3, 2018
MONDAY Acts 25:1-5, 9; Matthew 13:3-9, 18-23 As Acts 25 opens, Felix, the corrupt governor who has imprisoned Paul to please the Jews, is recalled (fired) by Nero. Festus succeeds Felix, inheriting the corrupt administration, as well as the unresolved problem posed by Paul. It will now become the responsibility of the new governor to...
July 23 – 27, 2018
MONDAY Acts 23:1-10; 2 Timothy 2:24-26 Paul was a Jew with a deep love of Jewish institutions and of all things Jewish. He loved his people so much that he once offered to suffer the divine wrath they deserved (Romans 9:3). Paul came to Jerusalem because of his love for Jesus and desire that his...