Hymns are a great way to pray. Our hymn for today is #384 Of the Father’s Love Begotten. Read these verses as a prayer:  Read More

Out of all the Psalms, Psalm 23 is perhaps the most well known and the most loved. And for good reason. It provides a great image of God’s love and care for us as his people.  Read More

David is a man after God’s own heart. Why that is will be seen as David’s life is told in the Bible. For even when he sins, he is repentant and seeks for God’s pardon, unlike Saul who came before him and only sought God due to pretense.  Read More

When you read the book of Numbers, we get the conflict that occurs between the faithfulness of God and the wickedness of God’s own people who rebel and constantly fight against God’s direction.  Read More

Where is Jesus here? Today we focus on a time when Jesus himself was present in the Old Testament. What we have in this chapter is the people complaining about there being no water. God then tells Moses to strike the rock and let water pour out for the people to drink.  Read More

Hymns are a great way to pray. Our hymn for today is #370 What Child is This. Read these verses as a prayer:  Read More

If you are trying to find Jesus when you open up to Psalm 22, you do not have to look far. The opening words give us a jolt if we are familiar with Jesus on the cross. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”  Read More

Jacob has lived a rather extraordinary and difficult life. To use his own words in chapter 47, “The days of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”   Read More

Moses is just minding his own business as a shepherd when he comes upon a curious sight. There on Mt. Horeb, also known as Mt. Sinai, Moses sees a plain old bush that is lit on fire. As Moses continues to stare, he notes that the bush is not burning up. The leaves are still nice and green, the wood is not being reduced to ash.  Read More

Hymns are a great way to pray. Our hymn for today is #357 O Come, O Come Emmanuel. Read these verses as a prayer:  Read More

While last week we covered Psalm 1, this week we push ahead into the next Psalm, Psalm 2. A good thing to remember when reading the Psalms is the structure of the book. How the Psalms are ordered matters. They are not haphazardly placed. When you look at them, the Psalms are broken into 5 “books.” Psalm 1-41 are placed together into Book One. Out of these Psalms 3-41 are attributed to David, while Psalms 1-2 have no author attributed to them.  Read More

Our next person who foreshadows who Jesus is and what he does is Joseph the son of Jacob. Genesis has been building up from the beginning. Genesis 3 taught us to look out for a Son of Eve. Genesis 12 taught us that through Abraham’s son all people of the world will be blessed.  Read More