Various images offered to capture the intent of our Creator in sharing Divine Love with us. We return this love to our Creator through love and care for one another.
Tap no the image for the sermon of July 2 at Matawan United Methodist Church, Aberdeen, NJ. I’m pleased to share it with you.
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Nick
Month: July 2023
God at Home in You
The Philistines have captured the Ark of the Covenant. It is as though they took God as a prisoner of war! Read what happens to their god, Dagon. Lesson: when we try to manipulate God into our own space, instead of surrendering into God’s space, false treasures and “idols” will fall.
In the center of the reading, there is a tender and charming shift in tone and feeling you will not want to miss.
Picture the cows drawing the wooden cart as they lead the Ark back to God’s people. There is no human driver. Listen in the silence to the hobbling of the wheels and the mooing of the cows as slowly the Ark makes its way back home again to God’s people.
What is God doing to bring the divine presence into your center? Are there any animals that come to mind that God is using for this?
What are Bible Breaths? Learn More…
Example: Turning not to right or left 6:12
Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”
In the season of Pentecost this year we read Proverbs 13 and 14 and 1 Samuel.
For all the Firestarters I recommend the ebook. You will have the entire program of well over a thousand of these introductions with you on your phone or tablet. Check the menu options at the site for more information
Hitting Bottom
The great stock market crash of 1929 provoked a variety of responses from people. Some jumped out of windows when financial disaster hit home; others found the Lord in a totally new way.
So it will be for Egypt. Isaiah foretells the total collapse of its economy. The Nile River will no longer bring life. There will literally be no more “stock” in its waters. Isaiah describes the devastation to come in detail. Suddenly in 19:18, there is a shift. Often when Isaiah uses the phrase “in that day,” he is prophesying Messianic times. Egyptians will begin to speak Hebrew, the sacred language of Canaan. They will come to know the Lord and God’s Word. Greater than the waters of the Nile will be the waters of the Torah that shall bring them life. Do you bounce when you “hit bottom”? Living waters are ready to bubble up within you from the Spirit.
Mondays are dedicated to the reading of the Hebrew Prophets.
In the season of Pentecost this year we read Isaiah 13 – 27; Lamentations 1 and 2 in the Ninth Week.
What are “Bible Breaths”? Learn More…
Example: My heart an altar for You 19:19
For all the Firestarters I recommend the ebook. You will have the entire program of well over a thousand of these introductions with you on your phone or tablet. Check the menu options at the site for more information.
The Bible Through the Seasons 