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...
by youth | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Post
Read John 4:1–38 Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.Matthew 4:4 Since the Syrian uprising began in March 2011, Lebanon has been absorbing thousands of refugees. But when many Syrians leave behind their homes and make...
by youth | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Post
Read Matthew 4:1–11 He had to be made like them, fully human in every way . . . that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest.Hebrews 2:17 The Bible is more than a story, and yet it is a story. Writer Frederick Buechner calls the biblical narrative “a tale...
by youth | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Post
Read Psalm 78:67–72 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.Psalm 78:65 Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned in disgrace as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund when he was charged with sexually assaulting a hotel...
by youth | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Post
Read Psalm 78:32–66 When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely.Psalm 78:59 Seven framed yellow jerseys hang in Lance Armstrong’s home. But since the incriminating report issued last October from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Armstrong has been...
