Weekday Word w/ Eric

Tag: bible-study

  • Haggai – Finally Going Home

    Haggai 1:1-11 In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jozadak,[a] the high priest: This is what the Lord Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The…

  • Nahum’s Prophetic Acrostic

    Nahum 1:7-13 The Lord is good,     a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him,      but with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh;     he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness. Whatever they plot against the Lord     he will bring…

  • The Prophets: Obadiah

    During the month of September, we will focus on the Old Testament prophets.  There is a notion that prophets are fortune tellers, revealers of the future.  Though prophets often speak of the future, that is not their primary purpose.  Prophets serve as God’s messengers of accountability when God’s people (and particularly the leaders of God…

  • As One With Authority

    “These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. Rain poured down, the…

  • Just Because You Can Do Something . . .

    1 Samuel 24 – David Spares Saul’s Life – I urge to actually read this fascinating story.                 No one would have questioned David’s killing of Saul.  At the moment, Saul (David’s Father-in-law at this point) was trying to hunt down and kill David.  Saul had just slaughtered dozens of priests just because they helped…

  • “I Have Some Bad News About the Good News”

    Matthew 17:22-23, NRSV – As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands,  and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised.” And they were greatly distressed. Before we get to the main reflection today, I want…

  • Staying in Our Lane

    Matthew 13:36-43, NIV – Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.  The field is the world, and the good seed…

  • A Story About a “Foolish” Farmer

    Matthew 13:1-9,18-23, NIV – That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake.  Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore.  Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out…

  • The “Runaway Train” of Anger

    Matthew 12:22-30, NLT – Then a demon-possessed man, who was blind and couldn’t speak, was brought to Jesus. He healed the man so that he could both speak and see.  The crowd was amazed and asked, “Could it be that Jesus is the Son of David, the Messiah?” But when the Pharisees heard about the…

  • A Jesus That Makes Us Uncomfortable

    Matthew 11:20-26, CEV – In the towns where Jesus had worked most of his miracles, the people refused to turn to God. So Jesus was upset with them and said: You people of Chorazin are in for trouble! You people of Bethsaida are in for trouble too! If the miracles that took place in your…