Weekday Word w/ Eric

Tag: jesus

  • 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…

  • Can’t Live Without This

    Romans 5:2-5 The Voice “Jesus leads us into a place of radical grace where we are able to celebrate the hope of experiencing God’s glory.  And that’s not all. We also celebrate in seasons of suffering because we know that when we suffer we develop endurance,  which shapes our characters. When our characters are refined,…

  • More Than What You Believe

    Proverbs 3:5-6  Trust in the Lord with all your heart;     do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do,     and he will show you which path to take. Psalm 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart;     test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out…

  • Beneficial Provocation

    Hebrews 10:19-25 – Therefore, my friends, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,  by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh),  and since we have a great priest over the house of God,  let us approach with a…

  • That You Might Not Perish. . .

    John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. A pastor friend gave me an insight into this extremely popular verse that I hadn’t heard before.  The word translated “perish” in this verse is the same word…

  • Jacob’s Ladder

    Genesis 28:10-19 – Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran. At sundown he arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep. As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the…

  • Unfiltered Prayers

    Psalm 142 – A Psalm of David I cry aloud to the Lord;     I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy. I pour out before him my complaint;     before him I tell my trouble. When my spirit grows faint within me,     it is you who watch over my way. In…

  • David, Bathsheba, & Birth of Solomon

    Read 2 Samuel 11-12                 Yesterday, we held up David’s honorable nature displayed in his treatment of Saul.  Today we read about the dishonorable side of his nature in the events concerning Bathsheba and Uriah her husband. Adultery, murder, cover-up abound in this story.  David sleeps with Uriah’s wife, has him killed, then tries to…

  • When Faith Sees Best

    Hebrews 11:8-12 – By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.  By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as…

  • Everything is Discipleship

    Matthew 28:16-20 – Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus told them to go.  When they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted.  Jesus came near and spoke to them, “I’ve received all authority in heaven and on earth.  Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them…