Daniel 6:10.When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed, and gave thanks before his God as he had done previously. We considered this last Lord's Day morning, and different things came to my mind after I preached through the passage. Daniel chapter 6 y...  Read More

Isaiah 6:1-8,In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”...  Read More

Matthew 6:25,“Therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”Verse 31-34,“Therefore, do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles, seek after all these things, and your Hea...  Read More

As we prepare our hearts, I want to turn to Exodus chapter 20, one of the greatest chapters in our Bibles. Here's the giving of the law to the nation of Israel, it's that law that Paul references in Romans 7. Remember how he describes it? It's a good law, a holy law, it's a law that the psalmist delights in. It's a law that the psalmist says, I love. And I'm going to read the fourth commandment, v...  Read More

2 Corinthians 1:3-7,“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If ...  Read More

1 Chronicles 29:11,“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, (and that's a very special word in the Bible, that in particular brings in the focus of God's sovereignty) Yours is the kingdom, O Lord and you are exalted as head above all.”This is a book of the Bible that...  Read More