God deals with Nebuchadnezzar’s pride. Application: The moment you start taking credit for anything, you’re just daring God to come and smack you around. God won’t share his glory with anyone and he won’t sit idly by while we attempt to shove him out of the picture. If we choose not to listen to God, he turns up the volume until he has our undivided attention.
Text: Daniel 4“If I had not come” (John 15:22). “But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of […]
Text: John 15:22; Galatians 4:4This morning we begin a brand-new series called Daniel: Courageous Living in Turbulent Times. With Y2K only 55 days away, […]
Text: Daniel 1:1-7Most of us are accustomed to getting what we work for, of receiving what is due to us. In this parable, Jesus challenges us with the scandal of grace – He gives freely to people no matter how hard they work for it. While we love the benefits of grace, it’s often difficult for us when that same grace is bestowed on others.
Text: Matthew 20:1-16If you don’t know God, you’ve missed the very reason for your own existence.
Text: Genesis 1:1; John 17:3“Every experience God gives us, every person he puts in our lives, is the perfect preparation for the future that […]
Text: Psalm 100:5“The life of a Christian is a series of miracles.” So said Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great British preacher of […]
Text: Philippians 1:6The year was 1866, and in a log cabin in the little town of Franklin, Kentucky, Thomas Obadiah Chisholm was […]
Text: Lamentations 3:22-23“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith […]
Text: Luke 22:31-32We begin with two quotations. The first comes from British playwright Oscar Wilde who said, “I can resist anything except […]
Text: I Corinthians 10:13; Genesis 39