What if the weekly Sunday morning worship gathering of your local church wasn’t just something you attended each week, but something you looked forward to and prepared your heart for each week? What if it became for you the central event of your week, every week? How might that change your experience of going to … Continue reading Preparing Your Heart For Sunday Worship
Advent is a wonderful time of year. Yet often is a season that can be full of busyness and anxiety. In the midst of the hustle and bustle of the season, it is important to slow down and reflect on the purpose of Advent. In all likelihood, Jesus was not born during the winter and … Continue reading 2023 RFTG Advent Resources Guide
What comes to mind when you hear the word Puritan? Do you think of old men in black robes, funny hats, and big collars? That picture is the most common caricature of the Puritans. There is also a misconception that a Puritan is someone who thinks that “somewhere in society, someone is having fun” and … Continue reading Learning to Follow Jesus from the Puritans
Jesus of Nazareth only lived to be about 33 years of age, and spent only three years in the public eye. In those three years, Jesus never wrote anything down that has survived. I think that was an intentional part of God’s providence. The only reliable source we have to know any thing that Jesus … Continue reading Meditating on the Words of Jesus
In the modern West, we live with an abundance of written resources. We have access to more books than any other civilization in history. Yet often we take this abundance granted and opt for mindless entertainment on television or our smartphones. As Christians, we should see this abundance rightly as a gift from the Lord. … Continue reading Daily Strength and Daily Joy: Devotions For Men and Women
Making time for Bible reading and prayer as personal daily worship is essential to the Christian life. Much of the Christian life is corporate in nature, however, the Christian life is also personal. For this reason many believers include the use of a guide in Bible reading and prayer. Whether it is a Bible reading … Continue reading New Devotionals for Personal Worship
As we near the end of the year we will hear increased talk of New Year’s resolutions. These are self improvement goals that people set and likely abandon by the end of January. Most people set the goal of losing weight, reading more, being nicer, etc. Some people even desire to grow spiritually and incorporate … Continue reading Three Crossway Devotionals for 2023
“The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want…You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.” – Psalm 23:1 & 5, ESV Perhaps one of the most quoted passages of the Bible, Psalm 23 has brought comfort to countless people throughout the centuries. This psalm has been read at funerals, in … Continue reading The Provision of Our Shepherd King (Psalm 23)
“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.” – Psalm 19:1-2, ESV On December 25, 2021 NASA launched the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a state of the art telescope with the capability of seeing farther … Continue reading Knowing About vs. Knowing God (Psalm 19)
“Salvation belongs to the LORD; your blessing be on your people!” – Psalm 3:8, ESV We live in a noisy world. Each day there are hundreds, if not thousands, of distractions vying for our attention. Just watching an hour of television we see there are dozens of companies paying for our eyeballs and hoping that … Continue reading Salvation Belongs to the Lord (Psalm 3)
“Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?” Psalm 2:1 (ESV) Do you remember the lie that serpent told to Eve in the garden of Eden? Adam and Eve had everything they needed in the lush haven of the garden. They walked with God in intimate fellowship, and had no need to … Continue reading A Tale of Two Kingdoms (Psalm 2)
It would not be going too far out on a limb in speculating that the book of Psalms has been read by God’s people more than any other Old Testament book since the compiling of the biblical cannon at the Council of Laodicea in AD 363. And it could easily be argued that Psalms is … Continue reading Ancient Songs: An Introduction
