R What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from…
Weekly REAP – Free To Go
R But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, “Go…
I’m In Recovery
Today was my first day to lead worship at Austin Stone Recovery. It is the highest honor to get to worship in an environment like this where Jesus is truly a felt need and the gospel is cherished in such a serious way. Many churches have a similar ministry by a similar name, but it’s…
Weekly REAP – What is a Scoffer?
R A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise. – Proverbs 15:12 ESV E The word “scoffer” stuck out to me today. It’s a negative identifier, but not immediately connected in my mind with fools, which is the main antagonist in Proverbs. I’d say a scoffer is someone…
Weekly REAP – Attacks Without Cause
R They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. … When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin! … For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death. He loved…
Love What You Did With The Place, Lord
For my Birthday, Sarah surprised me with a trip to the Grand Canyon. I love traveling, especially with her, so she really knocked it out of the park here. I’m not gonna waste your time with words about the trip. I’ll just get to the pictures! P.S. If you knew, thanks for not telling me.
Weekly REAP – This Illness Does Not Lead to Death
R Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when…
Weekly REAP – We Have Heard for Ourselves
R Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman,…
Weekly REAP – Greater Rejoicing Through Wrath
R And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord , with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals. And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen…
Weekly REAP – They Rested According to the Commandment
R The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. Luke 23:55-56 ESV E This was a time of suffering for Jesus followers, and it was also…
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