Southside church of Christ in Mt. Pleasant Texas

God teaches us to pray by recording the prayers of his faithful people in scripture. Daniel 9 is one of those. Prayer, Daniel style, means we… I. Pray in remembrance of God’s promises (1-3) II. Confess in full ownership of…

“Live in the moment” is often passed along as sound advice. But Psalm 21 says different. We think best about the present only after we’ve thought deeply about God’s saving work in the past & future. I. Past deliverances (1-6)…

Jeremiah lived in a time of moral decline and societal upheaval. He never held political office, he was never popular, but he managed to be faithful, courageously speaking God’s word. His contemporaries ignored him. Will we? Discipleship, Jeremiah style, involves…

If we were given the option to never feel pain again, we might be tempted to accept. Yet a painless existence is fraught with danger. Pain helps keep us alive. In 2 Corinthians, Paul teaches us that this physiological truth…

Psalm 20 traffics in the language of monarcy & liturgy, two things most of us have little experience with or interest in. Yet understood well, we’ll find this far away psalm is instilling fundaments of discipleship: the power of intercessory…

Life is filled with forks in the road where we will either draw closer to God or push him away. For James it’s crucially important to understand why things happen (and why they don’t) in order to respond well. Our…

We’re bombarded daily with a cacophony of voices. Whose voice can we trust? Psalm 19 tells us of a voice that speaks loudly and truthfully. We hear this voice when we… I. Look up at the sky (1-6) II. Open…