Nov 27, 2025
Samuel replied to King Saul, “What is more pleasing to the Lord: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience? Listen. Obedience is far better than sacrifice. He is much more interested in your listening to Him than in your offering the fat of rams to Him....
Nov 26, 2025
Let’s examine and search out our ways and return to the Lord. We raise our heart and hands toward God in heaven. Adapted, Lamentations 3:40-41 Surely we have sinned and fallen short. Both good and bad, joy and sorrow are part of God’s sanctifying Providence....
Nov 25, 2025
Everything comes from God, exists by His power, and is intended for His glory. All glory to Him forevermore. Amen. Adapted, Romans 11:36 The praise of God should be the cardinal object of all that we do. The noblest aim of intelligent beings is to secure Him a revenue...
Nov 24, 2025
The woman . . . said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” John 4:28-29 It’s tempting to get caught up in the comparison game. To look at others and say, “At least I don’t sin like that guy,” or “I’m doing...
Nov 23, 2025
The ordinary means of grace (sometimes the means of grace) (“OMG”, “MG”) are the God ordained ordinary channels by which the Holy Spirit enables believers to receive Christ and the benefits of redemption (Note 1). They are outward signs of...
Nov 22, 2025
God regenerates us not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been...