Exhausted. That was one of two words you could use to sum up how I felt. Exhausted—and completely happy. It happened this way every year. Ten days of Christmas programs, feeding people, helping elderly women with their coats, and helping them on and off of buses. Singing, laughing, working. Food and dishes and more dishes …
Week 3, Part1: Lessons From the Pharisees Cont’d Day 2: For Viewing Purposes Only Matthew 23; Luke 11:37-54; 18:9-14; Isaiah 58:7; Daniel 4:27 It’s somewhat easy to make light of the Pharisees’ displeasure with the disciples’ dirty hands, but in reality it was an incredibly serious matter. Their attention to the outward condition of men …
Week 3, Part 1: Lessons From The Pharisees Cont’d Day 1: Eating with Dirty Hands – Matthew 15:1-20; Isaiah 9 (15-17); Mark 7:1-23 Isaiah 29 It seems the disciples were always disappointing the Pharisees. They just had a knack for doing exactly the wrong thing. It makes me laugh because, honestly, I have a feeling …
Week 2: Lessons From The Pharisees Day 3 – Mercy vs. Sacrifice: Matthew 9:9-13; 12:1-8 [Is it appropriate to start a blog with a preface? Well, I’m going to. The next few passages that we look at will begin to reveal that the Pharisees and Scribes of Jesus day had much the same heart problem …
Week 1: Getting Started Day 5 – Our Treasure Box: Matthew 6:1-4; Matthew 6:19-34; Luke 12:22-48 We have some strange neighbors. I mean, really strange. They’ve never taken the time to build a house. They never go grocery shopping. They don’t give any thought to what they are going to wear each day. They just …
Week 1: Getting Started Day 4 – Lights on a Hill: Matthew 5:13-16 It’s a hundred miles from the Montana/Wyoming line to my hometown. I’ve made the drive more times than I can count, usually with various family members and usually with eight or ten hours of driving behind us. When I was a little …
Week 1: Getting Started Day 3: Asshur Revisited Matthew 4:12-17 As we went through the Old Testament we saw not only the Lord’s desires toward the fatherless, but also towards several other groups, specifically, strangers, widows, the oppressed and the poor and needy. These groups are found in the New Testament as well. In fact, …
Week 6 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 2 – A Man for the Gap: Ezekiel 22:7, 29 Ezekiel twenty-two is a sobering chapter. It addresses Jerusalem and her sin. Verse three gives the short list of offenses: Violence and idolatry. The long list, however, starts in verse seven, to it is added gross …
Week 5: Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 4 – Ezekiel and the Stranger: Ezekiel 14:6-8; 44:6-9; 47:23 The book of Ezekiel is an amazing book. If you have never taken the time to read through it carefully – do it. Choosing how and where to start for today’s post is not easy! The ministries …
Post Theme: God’s Purposes for Ministry to the Fatherless Week 3 – Lessons from Job Cont’d Day 4: God’s Purposes – Review While, as we learned from Job, it is possible for us to have the wrong purpose in ministry, it is never possible for GOD to have the wrong purpose. Let’s review some of …
