Week 47 Honoring God in Our Marriages

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 47 Scripture Readings: Ezra 6-10 Key Scripture Verses: Ezra 9:13-15 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “What has happened to us is a result of our evil deeds and our great guilt, and yet, our God, you have punished us less than our sins deserved and have given us a… Continue reading Week 47 Honoring God in Our Marriages

Week 47 Even Kings Were To Read the Scriptures Daily

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger)  Week 47 Scripture Readings: Deuteronomy 16-19 Key Scripture Verses: Deuteronomy 17:18-20 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests. It is to be with… Continue reading Week 47 Even Kings Were To Read the Scriptures Daily

Week 46 Complacency in Worship and Thanksgiving

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 46 Scripture Readings: Zechariah 1-7 Key Scripture Verses: Zechariah 7:4-6 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past… Continue reading Week 46 Complacency in Worship and Thanksgiving

Week 46 Can We Be Too Righteous or Too Wise?

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 46 Scripture Readings: Ecclesiastes 7-8 Key Scripture Verses: Ecclesiastes 7:16-18 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise—why destroy yourself? Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool—why die before your time? It is good to grasp the one and not let go… Continue reading Week 46 Can We Be Too Righteous or Too Wise?

Week 46 Finding Peace By Doing God’s Will

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger)  Week 46 Scripture Readings: Psalms 131-133 Key Scripture Verses: Psalm 132:4, 13-14 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “I will allow no sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, till I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.” “For the Lord has… Continue reading Week 46 Finding Peace By Doing God’s Will

Week 45 How To Have A Meaningful Life

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 45 Scripture Readings: Ecclesiastes 5-6 Key Scripture Verses: Ecclesiastes 5:15 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.” We come into the world as vulnerable,… Continue reading Week 45 How To Have A Meaningful Life

Week 45 Our Loving and Forgiving God

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger)  Week 45 Scripture Readings: 2 Chronicles 33-36 Key Scripture Verses: 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “In his distress he sought the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors. And when he prayed to him, the Lord was moved… Continue reading Week 45 Our Loving and Forgiving God

Week 44 Death By Pride – and Worms!

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger)  Week 44 Scripture Readings: Acts 11-12 Key Scripture Verses: Acts 12:1-23 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.”  The Old Testament and the New Testament are both… Continue reading Week 44 Death By Pride – and Worms!

Week 44 Counting Our Blessings, Giving the Glory to God

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 44 Scripture Readings: Deuteronomy 7-9 Key Scripture Verses: Deuteronomy 8:17-18 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “You may say to yourself, ‘My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.’ But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability… Continue reading Week 44 Counting Our Blessings, Giving the Glory to God

Week 43 When God Seeks Us To Sanctify Us

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 43 Scripture Readings: Acts 9-10 Key Scripture Verse: Acts 10:15 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “The voice spoke to him a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’” These two chapters of Acts are filled with drama—drama created by God to change lives. He… Continue reading Week 43 When God Seeks Us To Sanctify Us