by youth | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Post
Read Psalm 119:1–16 Your kingdom come, your will be done.Matthew 6:10 “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.” These are the words every American boy and girl learns from a very early age. The pledge has sustained fights from atheists, who...
by youth | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Post
Read Psalm 145 Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.Matthew 6:9 “[The Lord’s Prayer] serves as a lens through which to see Jesus himself,” writes N. T. Wright. “When Jesus gave his disciples this prayer, he was giving them part of his own breath, his own life,...
by youth | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Post
Read Matthew 26:36–46 We have [a high priest] who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.Hebrews 4:15 In the last book of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Sam Gamgee wakes up with the horrible thought that all of his friends are dead. Instead,...
by youth | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Post
Read Hebrews 4:14–16; 5:1–10 Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.Matthew 4:10 In his book The Jesus Way, Eugene Peterson considers both the ways and means of God.What God wants to accomplish is important, buthow He wants to accomplish it is important too....
by youth | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Post
Read Hebrews 3 Do not put the Lord your God to the test.Matthew 4:7 “I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. The only God I believe in is the One Nietzsche ridiculed as ‘God on the cross.’ In the real world of pain, how could one worship a...
