April 19, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

The holiest moment of the church service is the moment when God’s people—strengthened by preaching and sacrament—go out of the church door into the world to be the Church. We don’t go to church; we are the Church.

Ernest Southcott

The Lord will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Isaiah 58:11
The New King James Version

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

Francis of Assisi

April 18, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

It is when we are out of options that we are most ready for God’s surprises.

Max Lucado

The Lord is my light and my salvation; he protects me from danger—whom shall I fear?

Psalm 27:1
The Living Bible

Many new books about religion are clever, wonderful, tiresome and useless.

G. K. Chesterton

April 15, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

May you have a most joyful & meaningful Easter celebration!

Those who have given Christ a place in their hearts know He has risen from the dead, because He lives in them.

Unknown

Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. And they remembered his words,

Luke 24:1-8
The King James Version

On that first Easter day life and death faced each other in mortal combat. And life won.

Unknown

April 14, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

To be crucified means, first, the man on the cross is facing only one direction; second, he is not going back; and third, he has no further plans of his own.

A. W. Tozer

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.”

Luke 23:34
The New King James Version

Death died when Christ rose.

Unknown

April 13, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

The cross has revealed to good men that their goodness has not been good enough.

Johann H. Schroeder

Meanwhile Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.

Matthew 27:11
The New International Version

Easter verbs: “Come!” “See!” “Go!” “Tell!”

Unknown

April 12, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

No person hearing the story of the Resurrection can possibly be any more skeptical of it than were the apostles when they first heard about it. The record shows that Jesus had to go to great lengths to overcome their disbelief. Once he ate an impromptu meal of cold fish and honeycomb—the only food at hand—to demonstrate to one diehard doubter that he wasn’t a ghost.

Louis Cassels

Then Jesus and the others arrived, and at the proper time all sat down together at the table; and he said, “I have looked forward to this hour with deep longing, anxious to eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins. For I tell you now that I won’t eat it again until what it represents has occurred in the Kingdom of God.”

Luke 22:14-16
The Living Bible

This is our destiny in heaven—to be like Christ: not Christ limited, as he was on earth, to the confines of time and flesh, but Christ risen, the great, free, timeless Christ of the Easter morning.

David Winter

April 11, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

God is conqueror—that is what the resurrection declares. God is conqueror—that is what life confirms. The faith by which we live is faith in a conquering God.

Albert E. Day

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Psalm 22:15
The King James Version

The cross is the crystallized point in history where eternity merges with time.

Oswald Chambers

April 8, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Surrender means following the direction God’s finger is pointing.

Sandi Bachom

The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil;
My cup runs over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my life;
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord
Forever.

Psalm 23
The New King James Version

“I can’t hear you,” said a mother to her daughter who was praying. “I wasn’t talking to you,” came the reply.

Unknown

April 7, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Everything the devil does, God overreaches to serve his own purpose.

Oswald Chambers

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Romans 8:37
The King James Version

That the Potter should die for His clay is a stupendous miracle.

Lynn Landrum

April 6, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

C. S. Lewis

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Matthew 24:35
The New International Version

We are shaped and pointed like a shining arrow to hit the target: eternal life.

G. K. Chesterton

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