God's Strength in Our Weakness

April 28, 2024

Isaiah 40:28-31 (ESV)

28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
     The Lord is the everlasting God,
        the Creator of the ends of the earth.
     He does not faint or grow weary;
        his understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the faint,
        and to him who has no might he increases strength.
30 Even youths shall faint and be weary,
        and young men shall fall exhausted;
31 but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
        they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
     they shall run and not be weary;
        they shall walk and not faint.

Hope for Godly Living

April 21, 2024

1 John 3:1-3 (ESV)

¹ See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. ² Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. ³ And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

Living in the Light

April 14, 2024

1 John 1:5-7 (ESV)

⁵ This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. ⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Faith That Stands the Test

April 7, 2024

John 20:24-29 (ESV)

²⁴ Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. ²⁵ So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”

²⁶ Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” ²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” ²⁸ Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” ²⁹ Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”