Archive for August 2020
Speaking Up
August 31, 2020 DAILY READING Exodus 4:11-12 “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Who gives speech to mortals? Who makes them mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you are to speak.’” FIELD NOTES God knew that…
Read MorePrayer & Confession
This week’s preacher: Dr. Laura Brantley. We continue our series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called “Walking with Jesus.” Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey. Our Scripture reading: Luke 9:18-20
Read MoreHe Took Up Our Infirmities and Bore Our Diseases
August 29, 2020 DAILY READING Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b Exodus 4:1-9 Matthew 8:14-17 FIELD NOTES When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him. When evening came, many who…
Read MoreFinding “Eternal Comfort and Good Hope”
August 28, 2020 DAILY READING Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b Exodus 3:16-22 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 FIELD NOTES For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but only until the one who now restrains it is removed. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his mouth, annihilating him…
Read MoreLiving the Good Life God Calls Us To Live
August 27, 2020 DAILY READING Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26 Exodus 2:23-24 Ephesians 5:1-6 FIELD NOTES “For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on…
Read MoreIn Memory of Her
August 26, 2020 DAILY READING Psalm 8 Exodus 2:15b-22 Matthew 26:6-13 FIELD NOTES “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 11 The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. 12 When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. 13 Truly…
Read MoreWho Knows the Mind of God?
August 25, 2020 DAILY READING Psalm 8 Exodus 2:11-15a Romans 11:33-36 FIELD NOTES O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor?” (Rom 11:33-34) It is disconcerting when some people…
Read MoreOut of the Mouths of Babes and Infants
August 24, 2020 DAILY READING Psalm 8 Exodus 1:1-7 Romans 2:1-11 FIELD NOTES O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babes and infantsyou have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger. When I…
Read MorePraying & Choosing Disciples
We continue our series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called “Walking with Jesus.” Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey. Our Scripture reading: Luke 6:12-16
Read MoreAll-In
August 22, 2020 DAILY READING Matthew 15:1-9 Psalm 119:1-8 FIELD NOTES We can do everything right. We can go through the motions perfectly. We can obey every rule or ethic code, or whatever it may be. Yet if our heart isn’t in it, if we aren’t sincere in our convictions, then what we do is shallow at best…
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