Pastor’s Blog

 
“…Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. (Lam 3:22-23)

I have been a Verizon customer for almost 20 years. That is a long time to be a customer of any business really. Can they hear me now?

This morning as I was considering the promise of the rainbow in Genesis 9, the fact that it comes after the rain struck my heart. What a powerful picture that God will see us through the storm and gives the rainbow as a promise upon the dark and bleak backdrop of our sin and trial in this world. I may have broken every law of poetry, but I pray you are blessed.

“And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.” Matthew 27:51

No small miracle was performed in the tearing of so strong and thick a curtain; but it was not intended merely as a display of power—many lessons were contained in it.

Hebrews 2:9 – “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.”

“…do this in remembrance of Me.” (Luke 22:19)

On the night Jesus was betrayed He gave thanks for the bread and cup representing His body and His blood.  His body would be broken so that man might not exist in a broken relationship with God any longer.  And His blood that was shed on the cross reveals that His entire life was poured out and expended for the benefit, and on behalf, of mankind.

Weekly Devotional by David Guzik

“And Abram moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.” (Genesis 12:8)

God had told Abram to get out of his country and go to the place God would show him. God’s commands rarely come with reasons, though sometimes we feel the right to demand them.