Hot-Hearted Pursuit

Acts 10:33 “Now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to tell us” (NIV) Observation: Cornelius was a Roman Centurion who loved God. Generous to the poor, faithful in his prayer life, he had been visited by an angel...

Holding All Things Loosely

2 Samuel 15:25-26 “And the King said to Zadok, ‘Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the sight of the Lord, then He will bring me back again and show me both it and His habitation.  But if He should say thus, “I have no delight in you,” behold, here I...

Graduation Day

Exodus 3:3-4 “So Moses said, ‘I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up.’ When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, ‘Moses, Moses!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’”...

Getting the Boot

James 4:5 “Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?” (NIV). Observation: In verse 4 James referred to an “adulterous” people, a people whose hearts and minds have become wedded to the world’s rewards...

Famine of the Heart

Genesis 47:25 “’You have saved our lives,’ they said. ‘May we find favor in the eyes of our lord; we will be in bondage to Pharaoh’” (NIV). Observation: Joseph was governor of Egypt, in charge of all grain distribution, as famine grew more severe. In payment for...