Finding “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…
Read MoreTo Forgive…
August 21, 2020 DAILY READING 1 John 2:7-17 Psalm 119:1-8 FIELD NOTES Look, we can all admit that relationships are hard. People mistreat you. They gossip about you. They attack your character. Perhaps even worst of all, they completely ignore you. And yet, we see in the text that if we hate, we are still “in the darkness.” Do you…
Read MoreIt Was Us All Along
August 20, 2020 DAILY READING James 1:12-16 Psalm 119:1-8 FIELD NOTES “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.” The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis God didn’t make us do it. Neither did the devil. It was us all along. We let our…
Read MoreRecognition
August 19, 2020 DAILY READING John 8:12-30 Psalm 119:105-112 FIELD NOTES Scholar N.T. Wright says about Jesus in his study, John for Everyone: “He and his father are giving evidence that he is the Messiah; but if this is so, he is bringing the light that they cannot escape. As he has come to realize, at the…
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