Feb 26, 2022
(Sir.27:4-7; Ps.92:2-3,13-16; 1Cor.15:54-58; Lk.6:39-45)
“Be firm, steadfast, always fully devoted to the work of the Lord.”
Brothers and sisters, “in the Lord your labor is not in vain,” for “the just one shall flourish like the palm...
Feb 19, 2022
(1Sm.26:2,7-9,12-13,22-23; Ps.103:1-4,8,10,12-13; 1Cor.15:45-49; Lk.6:27-38)
“Who can lay hands on the Lord’s anointed and remain unpunished?”
This does David say of Saul the king of Israel – of him who has come into the desert to hunt David down and kill him...
Feb 17, 2022
(Jas.2:14-24,26; Ps.112:1-6; Mk.8:34-9:1)
“Faith without works is as dead as a body without breath.”
How dead indeed is a body without breath; how short a time we can go without breathing before dying. And so how much is our faith dependent on works to remain alive.
Brothers and sisters, we are human, we...
Feb 16, 2022
(Jas.2:1-9; Ps.34:2-7; Mk.8:27-33)
“You are not judging by God’s standards but by man’s!”
This is a most important statement Jesus makes; it really cuts to the heart of His teaching, and to His sacrifice for our sins.
He has just finished asking His apostles, “Who do you say that I am?” and for perhaps...
Feb 15, 2022
(Jas.1:19-27; Ps.15:1-5; Mk.8:22-26)
“Jesus laid hands on his eyes, and he saw perfectly.”
What is it to see perfectly but to be as “the man who peers into freedom’s ideal law and abides by it”? For to see perfectly is to see as God sees, not looking upon the surface of things – that which is reflected...