“For thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land. And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.” Haggai 2:6-7 (ESV) God’s people had come home from exile to rebuild the temple, and what they were building looked small next…
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6, ESV) Life does not run in straight lines. It bends through seasons of sunshine and seasons of storm, and in every turn Solomon points us to the same place: the Lord Himself. Damon Morgan opened Proverbs 3:5-6 and called us to a trust that rests not in what we…
Big idea: Pride promises to lift you up, but it only sets you up for the fall. God lifts the humble. Obadiah is the shortest book in the Old Testament, and its warning is aimed at a people who trusted in their height, their strength and their security. The weight of the message fell on verse 4: though pride soars like the eagle and nests among the stars, the LORD says, “From there I will bring you down.” Damon walked…
You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts Paul did not need a letter of recommendation for the Corinthians. The Corinthians were the letter, and the Spirit of the living God was writing it…
