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September 9, 2026 — Desperate Enough?
How desperate do some people need to be before they cry out to the Lord? Really desperate, it seems. We begin Book V of the Psalter with a thriller! It’s the tale of four rescues. God is the ultimate EMT. The byline reads, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand…
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September 9
CHRIST in the KNOW: “His disciples said to Him, ‘See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech! Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this we believe that You came forth from God’” (Jn 16:29-30). What was it that…
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September 9 Petition Mission
“We remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise’” (Mt 27:63). “When He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered…” (Jn 2:22). His enemies remembered after He died, but His disciples didn’t remember until after He rose! J.K. Johnston tells a story about a town that…
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September 9
Historian Arnold Toynbee, in an essay titled Christianity and Civilization, presented at Oxford University, said: “Democracy is another leaf from the book of Christianity, which has also, I fear, been torn out and, while perhaps not misread, has certainly been half emptied of meaning by being divorced from its Christian context and secularized; and we…
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I Just Don’t Get It
I’ve got it, but I still don’t get it. What have I got? Salvation from all my sins — past, present, and future. (Acts 13:38-39) A home in heaven when I die. (John 14:2-3) Jesus as my traveling companion through life. (Hebrews 13:5-6) All the riches God has, free for the asking. (Romans 8:32) Membership…
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September 8, 2026 — Joy In Forgiveness
God’s forgiveness actually changes the past—from shameful tragedies into glorious triumphs of grace. “Hallelujah!” So begins the last of the 17 psalms in Book IV of the Psalter. It may surprise you, since Psalm 106 features Israel’s failures, that the psalm also ends with “Hallelujah!” (v 48). How is this possible? As Paul writes, “where sin abounded, grace abounded…