Life & Hope: Faith in Exile
Our Lord God, we come now to you, and we’re eager to hear this, your word. Lord, we come to sit at your feet and to be still and to listen. And we pray, our gracious God, help us to settle our souls and focus our hearts and minds at this time of us to…
New Testament reading comes this morning from Revelation chapter one. Revelation one, starting at verse nine. Revelation one, nine, and I’ll be reading to the end of that chapter. Yeah, Revelation one, starting at verse nine. Once again, please get attention to this is the word of our God. I, John, your brother and partner…
Daniel 9, starting with verse 24, verse 24 to 27. Please now give full attention. This is the word of God. Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and…
Well, many, many people have attempted to shoehorn very much theology and very many years into our passage today and from Daniel chapter nine. It’s theology and time that does not fit. This prophecy of 70 weeks, really weeks, the word is seven, 77s, is one of the most intriguing passages, one of the most…
While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people, Israel, and presenting my plea before the Lord, my God, for the holy hill of my God, while I was speaking in prayer, the man, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at first, came to me in swift…
Well, I wonder if you have ever lamented the state of your prayer life, if you’ve ever lamented and sorrowed over your prayer, your praying or your lack of praying. If you had times of dryness and distance in your praying, indeed all of us have, I’m sure you would answer in the affirmative. Our…
sitting back in Daniel this morning, Daniel chapter seven. But before we hear from prophet Daniel, or speaking through Daniel, let us ask his blessing on the reading, the preaching, the hearing of that word. Take a moment of prayer with me, would you? Dear Lord, we come again before you, Lord at this time,…
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom; and over them three high officials, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss. Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other high officials and satraps,…
King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand. Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords,…
Now chapter three, starting at verse 16, once again, please give your full attention. This is the word of God. Remember in verse 15, left off with the question, and who is the God who will deliver you out of my hands? Verse 16, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O…