Let’s encourage and build each other up

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning” Our Bible verse for today: “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up as you are already doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Let’s encourage and build each other up” This morning I want to take us back to the first devotional in this seriesContinue reading “Let’s encourage and build each other up”

Life is a grand adventure

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning” Our Bible verse for today: “He awakens me each morning; he awakens my ear to listen like those being instructed.” Isaiah 50:4b (CSB) Our thought for today: “Life is a grand adventure” I know a man who is a morning person on steroids. He admits that as he wakesContinue reading “Life is a grand adventure”

Never stop learning

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning” Our Bible verse for today: “I pursue the way of your commands, for you broaden my understanding.” Psalm 119:32 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Never stop learning” As a child I was a terrible student in school and from an early age I came to believe I was stupid.Continue reading “Never stop learning”

Free-range Christians

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God” Our Bible verse for today: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) Our thought for today: “Free-range Christians” Are you familiar with the conceptContinue reading “Free-range Christians”

Just live your life

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God” Our Bible verse for today: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) Our thought for today: “Just live your life.” This morning, I wantContinue reading “Just live your life”

God is not a helicopter parent

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God” Our Bible verse for today: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) Our thought for today: “God is not a helicopter parent” So farContinue reading “God is not a helicopter parent”

Laying the foundation for the church of tomorrow

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God” Our Bible verse for today: “I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some. Now I do all this because of the gospel, so that I may share in the blessings.” 1 Corinthians 9:22-23 (CSB) Our thought forContinue reading “Laying the foundation for the church of tomorrow”

The Holy Spirit will unite us

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God” Our Bible verse for today: “Teach me your way, Lord, and I will live by your truth. Give me an undivided mind to fear your name.” Psalm 86:11 (CSB) Our thought for today: “The Holy Spirit will unify us” At Oak Hill Baptist Church we needed a newContinue reading “The Holy Spirit will unite us”

How to avoid groupthink in the church

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God” Our Bible verse for today: “So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.” Numbers 14:4 (CSB) Our thought for today: “How to avoid groupthink in the church” In Numbers 14:1-4 the Israelites had just heard the report from the twelve spiesContinue reading “How to avoid groupthink in the church”