by Mike Woodruff | Jan 1, 2021 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday and Happy New Year, Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name. Psalm 96:8 We are repeatedly commanded to worship God, not because He needs the encouragement, but because we need to lift our gaze from lesser things and focus on Him. There are other...
by Mike Woodruff | Dec 18, 2020 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday, Make the most of your time. Paul, Ephesians 5:16 The Greeks have two words for time: kronos, which refers to seconds and minutes, or “tick tock, tick tock;” and kairos, which refers to “divinely-ordained moments pregnant with possibility.” In Ephesians...
by Mike Woodruff | Dec 11, 2020 | The Friday Update
Blessed are the poor in spirit. Jesus, Luke 6 I prefer Luke’s Sermon on the Plain to Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount. In the second – which is far more famous – Jesus says, “Blessed are the poor.” I am either too much of a capitalist – or just too wealthy – to be...
by Mike Woodruff | Dec 4, 2020 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday, “I do not say to forgive seven times, but seventy times seven. Jesus, Matthew 18:21 Forgiveness is central to the Christian faith – not only God forgiving us, but our forgiving others. It is a command. Indeed, forgiveness is to be granted before it...
by Mike Woodruff | Nov 27, 2020 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday. I will be with him in trouble. Psalm 91:15 God promises to be with us as we go through difficult times. That does not mean He will keep us “from trouble,” as many hope and some claim. The Gospels and Book of Acts make that clear. But He is not a...
