by Mike Woodruff | Nov 1, 2019 | The Friday Update
Count it all joy when you encounter various trials, know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. The Apostle James Many believe US Christians are spiritually immature. Perhaps. If so, why? Bad preaching? Shallow books? Too little prayer? Gordon MacDonald...
by Mike Woodruff | Oct 25, 2019 | The Friday Update
Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Psalm 100 We are never ordered to worship, but we are frequently ordered to worship God. This is not because He needs the encouragement. Rather, it is because...
by Mike Woodruff | Oct 19, 2019 | The Friday Update
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Jesus, Sermon on the Mount Worrying about tomorrow is easy to do. But it is ill-advised. For starters, thinking about suffering is almost always...
by Mike Woodruff | Oct 11, 2019 | The Friday Update
They exchanged their glorious God for an image of a bull, which eats grass. Psalm 106:19 After the miracles God did to secure the Jewish people’s release from Egypt, “they forgot the God who saved them,” and worshipped the image of a bull. If you read through Exodus...
by Mike Woodruff | Oct 4, 2019 | The Friday Update
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. Paul, Ephesians 2:8f President Kennedy famously said, “Our problems are manmade, therefore they can be solved by...
