4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving,    and his courts with praise!    Give thanks to him; bless his name! 5 For the Lord is good;    his steadfast love endures forever,    and his faithfulness to all generations. (Psalm 100:4-5 ESV) Do you prepare for worship? I must admit, I typically do not. I go to the church on Sunday and have not...

1 O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;    my soul thirsts for you;my flesh faints for you,    as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. (Psalm 63:1 ESV) Yesterday we talked about putting our hearts into our seeking God. Today’s scripture takes this a bit further and...

13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:13 ESV) Do we really seek god with all our heart? I think not. Yes, we may incline our ways to the Lord, but we are focused more upon our own desires and not what...

11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what...

4 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,    but righteousness delivers from death. (Proverbs 11:4 ESV) We put far too much stock in the ability of our wealth to keep the darkness of this world at bay. The reality is that when things go sideways in a society wealth...