Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Gritty Compassion - DEVOTIONAL

Gritty Compassion
Theme of the Week: True Compassion
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Key Bible Verse: I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them. (Ecclesiastes 4:1b)

Dig Deeper: Luke 10:25-37

That day in the car, I was torn between an easy Jesus and the real Jesus. The easy Jesus hears our prayers for grieving families and lets us go about our business. But the real Jesus messes with our hearts by asking us to act on the compassion we feel welling up inside us. It's not that feeling pity and praying for someone in need is necessarily wrong. It just isn't complete.

READ MORE: http://www.christianitytoday.com/moi/2017/003/june/gritty-compassion.html

Sunday, June 18, 2017

A Place for the Lord,by Chip Brogden

"Foxes have their dens, and birds have their nests;
but the Son of Man has no where to lay His head."
-Matthew 8:20


How may we prepare a place for the Lord Jesus? What is He searching for? Where is the place of His rest? 

Many of us have traveled "outside the camp" in search of something more in tune with God's own heart. I believe the most important calling we have is to prepare a place for the Lord Jesus, to give Him somewhere to lay His head. We will find that the purest, simplest expression of the Church is that which satisfies the Lord's heart and gives Him a place....

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