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 Hezekiah Holds A Revival

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 44 Scripture Readings: 2 Chronicles 29-32 Key Scripture Verses: 2 Chronicles 31:20-21 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God. In everything that he undertook in the service of God’s temple and… Continue reading Week 44 Hezekiah Holds A Revival

Week 43 Let Us Be Eager To Go To Church

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger)  Week 43 Scripture Readings: Psalms 122-124 Key Scripture Verses: Psalm 122: 1, 6 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “I rejoiced with those who said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord.’” “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: ‘May those who love you be secure.”  Psalm 122… Continue reading Week 43 Let Us Be Eager To Go To Church

Week 40 Taking Time to Celebrate God

By Elizabeth Yeamans Simrell (Guest Blogger) Week 40 Scripture Readings: Numbers 29-32 Key Scripture Verse: Numbers 29:1 (NIV, Life Application Bible) “On the first day of the seventh month hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. It is a day for you to sound the trumpets.” Chapter 29 of Numbers starts out talking… Continue reading Week 40 Taking Time to Celebrate God

Week 35: Wallflowers

Today’s Text: First Chronicles 15-19 Key Text: First Chronicles 15:29 As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David dancing and celebrating, she despised him in her heart. I remember the “wallflowers” of my high… Continue reading Week 35: Wallflowers

Week 34: We Are His

Today’s Text: Psalms 99-101 Key Text: Psalm 100:1-3 “Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.   Worship the LORD with gladness;   come before him with joyful songs.      Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.” I like how the… Continue reading Week 34: We Are His

Week 34 With All Our Might

Today’s Text: First Chronicles 10-14 Key Text: First Chronicles 13:8 “And David and all Israel were celebrating before God will all their might, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and with trumpets.” It must have been quite a parade – David and all the people celebrating and worshipping as they transported the… Continue reading Week 34 With All Our Might

Week 33: Life as Worship

Today’s Text: First Chronicles 5-9 Key Text: First Chronicles 9:33-34 “Those who were musicians, heads of Levite families, stayed in the rooms of the temple and were exempt from other duties because they were responsible for the work day and night. All these were heads of Levite families, chiefs as listed in their genealogy, and… Continue reading Week 33: Life as Worship

Week 32: The Rock of Our Salvation

Week 32: The Rock of our Salvation Today’s Text: Psalms 93-95 Key Text: Psalm 95:1 “Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.” The words roll off the tongue… Come Sing Joy Shout Aloud To what and to whom? The LORD – the ROCK… Continue reading Week 32: The Rock of Our Salvation