In The Word Read: Philippians 1:12-26 The Gospel Is Preached 12 Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel, 13 so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the praetorian guard and to everyone else, 14 and that […]
Author: The Church
The Right Focus
In The Word Read: Philippians 1:1-11 Thanksgiving 1 Paul and Timothy, bond-servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, including the overseers and deacons: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, 4 always […]
God Wants To Be Included
In The Word Read: Lamentations 5 A Prayer for Mercy 5 Remember, Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and see our disgrace! 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to foreigners. 3 We have become orphans, without a father; Our mothers are like widows. 4 We have to pay for our drinking water, Our […]
Consequences Of Sin
In The Word Read: Lamentations 4 Distress of the Siege Described 4 How dark the gold has become, How the pure gold has changed! The sacred stones are spilled out At the corner of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion, Weighed against pure gold, How they are regarded as earthenware jars, The work of a […]
Suffering Yet Steadfast On God
In The Word Read: Lamentations 3 Jeremiah Shares Israel’s Misery 3 I am the man who has seen misery Because of the rod of His wrath. 2 He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light. 3 Indeed, He has turned His hand against me Repeatedly all the day. 4 He has consumed my […]
Embrace Convicting Truth
In The Word Read: Lamentations 2 God’s Anger over Israel 2 How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has hurled The glory of Israel from heaven to earth, And has not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger. 2 The Lord has destroyed; He has not […]
God With You In Tragedy
In The Word Read: Lamentations 1 The Sorrows of Zion 1 How lonely sits the city That once had many people! She has become like a widow Who was once great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces Has become a forced laborer! 2 She weeps bitterly in the night, And her tears […]
Shut The Door To The Enemy
In The Word Read: Jeremiah 51:59-52:34 59 The command that Jeremiah the prophet gave Seraiah the son of Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (And Seraiah was quartermaster.) 60 Jeremiah wrote on a single scroll all the disaster which would […]
God Will Judge The Sinner
In The Word Read: Jeremiah 51:1-58 Babylon Judged for Sins against Israel 51 This is what the Lord says: “Behold, I am going to stir up The spirit of a destroyer against Babylon And against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai. 2 I will send foreigners to Babylon so that they may winnow her And devastate her land; For […]
Accountable For Our Own Actions
In The Word Read: Jeremiah 49:34-50:46 Prophecy against Elam 34 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying: 35 “This is what the Lord of armies says: ‘Behold, I am going to break the bow of Elam, The finest […]