Jun 30, 2024

A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings!  The text of Matthew 7:1-6. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection!

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Jun 28, 2024

“One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple” (Psalm 27:4).

Here’s a story I’ve told before on Wilderness Wanderings. One day while Stuart Sacks was serving as a...

Jun 27, 2024

Vindicate me, LORD, for I have led a blameless life; I have trusted in the LORD and have not faltered. Test me, LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind; for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness. (Psalm 26:1-3)

This Psalm—like any number of...

Jun 26, 2024

        In you, Lord my God, I put my trust…Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths (Psalm 25:1,4).

The psalms of the Old Testament are the church's prayer book. This doesn’t mean that these are the only prayers or songs we offer, but that we allow them to be our prayer teachers. They will teach us how to...

Jun 25, 2024

A different angle on growing and fruit today...

Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, “Come back to me in three days.” The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders, he followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father...