Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read 2 Chronicles 27-28 and Zechariah 10. This devotional is about Zechariah 10. One of the metaphors that repeats throughout scripture is that people are like sheep. Like sheep, people are given to wandering off on their own. They will follow the voice of a leader–a shepherd–they […]
Judges 2, Jeremiah 15
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Judges 2 and Jeremiah 15. This devotional is about Jeremiah 15. One of the themes that keeps recurring in Jeremiah is that God’s decree to punish Judah is set. As verse 1 says, “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would […]
Deuteronomy 11, Isaiah 39
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Deuteronomy 11 and Isaiah 39. This devotional touches on both Deuteronomy 11 and Isaiah 39. In Isaiah 39 a delegation from Babylon came to visit Hezekiah. Their mission was was peaceful and was designed to create goodwill between the two nations (v. 1). Hezekiah was eager […]
Deuteronomy 2, Isaiah 30, Psalm 143
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Deuteronomy 2, Isaiah 30, Psalm 143. This devotional is about Isaiah 30. Judgment was coming to Judah because of idolatry and disobedience to God’s law. Isaiah and others had delivered prophecies to tell God’s people of their coming exile. How would they respond? One way they […]
Exodus 14, Job 32, Psalm 62
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Exodus 14, Job 32, and Psalm 62 This devotional is about Exodus 14:10-15. Although they saw the miraculous power of God repeatedly in the ten plagues, God’s people became fearful in this chapter when they saw the Egyptians pursuing them. Verse 10b says, “They were […]
Genesis 47, Job 13, Psalm 45
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Genesis 47, Job 13, and Psalm 45. This devotional is about Psalm 45. This beautiful song bears the superscription, “A wedding song.” Those superscriptions are (probably) not part of the original text. We don’t really know if they are original or not, because we don’t […]
Revelation 3
Read Revelation 3. Years ago, when I was in seminary, I was in the driveway of my house, scraping the old grass off the bottom of my mower. A couple that lived a few doors down the street walked by on the sidewalk. They asked me if I was a minister; I said I was in […]
You Belong in Church Because This Is Where the Truth Lives
Handout 1 Timothy 3:1-15 (NIV) 3 Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. 2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover […]
You Belong in Church Because We Need Your Help
Handout Romans 12:3-8 (NIV) 3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4 For just as each of us […]
You Belong in Church
Handout Ephesians 4:11-16 (NIV) 11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of […]