by Mike Woodruff | Mar 12, 2021 | The Friday Update
The earth is filled with your love, Lord. Psalm 119:64 Stop and consider the scandalous and overflowing love of God FOR YOU. Not the sappy and sentimental stuff trumpeted in greeting cards, but the real-world, fully informed, gritty, ferocious, unrelenting, and...
by Mike Woodruff | Mar 5, 2021 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday, For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Hebrews 4:12 Instead of reading the Bible, we should let...
by Mike Woodruff | Feb 26, 2021 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday, Open for me the gates of the righteous; I will enter and give thanks to the LORD. Psalm 118:19 Lent seems an especially appropriate time to marvel at the access to the Father secured for us by the Son. We are able to walk through “the gates of the...
by Mike Woodruff | Feb 19, 2021 | The Friday Update
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and oppressed. Psalm 82:3 Only in Jesus do we learn just how far God will go to identify with the poor and oppressed. Cancer and Death: We give power to these words by avoiding them. Here are...
by Mike Woodruff | Feb 12, 2021 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday, By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. Genesis 3:19 Next Wednesday begins Lent, a forty-day period leading up to the crucifixion. It was...
