Today’s Text: Psalm 19 Today’s Song: This is My Father’s World  Notes:  Today we begin a series on Psalm 19. In this Psalm, we hear three voices, singing in harmony about the glory of the Lord’s revelation.  CS Lewis said this was the most perfect poem he had ever read.  Psalm 19 is one of the great “Word”…

Today’s Text: Psalm 37:3, 9, 11, 18, 22, 27, 29, 34    Today’s Song: This is My Father’s World Notes:  Psalm 37 is all about inheriting the land. But when Jesus quotes it, he says “earth.” Why?  Does He misquote it? Is he playing fast and loose with the scripture?  No. Earth and land are two sides of…

Today’s Text: Psalm 37:4   Today’s Song: Give Me Jesus  Notes:  Psalm 37:4  What a God we serve, who commands us to delight!  And then gives us what we desire! 

Psalm 37 is essential background music for the Beatitudes. So today we will begin an extended look at it. Today is an introduction.

Today’s Text: Matthew 11:25-30  Today’s Song:  Notes:  What does it mean to be meek? As with all of the Beatitudes, Jesus is our ultimate example and we see that example in chapters 11 and 12. 

Today’s Text: Matthew 5:5 Today’s Song: Come to the alter Notes:  What is your strategy for world domination? If you were going to try your hand at world conquest, how would you go about it?  Or maybe, you don’t want to take over the world…you just want your worldto operate smoothly. How do you go about that?  Listen in, and…

Today’s Text: Revelation 21:1-5 1   Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard…

All of the beatitudes are counter-cultural. But for us, Blessed are those who mourn, might be the strangest of them all. So what does Jesus mean? How can mourning ever be good? It is good if it leads to repentance. So today we look at Psalm 51 to discover how we can experience “good mourning.””

Today’s Text: John 15:1-10  Today’s Song: I Surrender All  Notes:  Today we look at another illustration fo what it means to be poor in Spirit.  When Jesus says: Apart from me, you can do nothing. He means it. And the poor in spirit joyfully embrace it. 

Today’s Text: Luke 7:1-10Today’s Song: Before the Throne  Notes:  Today we look at one of the best examples of what it means to be poor in spirit: The Roman centurion.  His faith causes Jesus to marvel. Does yours?