Rev. Mark Marxhausen

You expected much, but received only a little. And when you brought it home, I made that little disappear. Why have I done this?

You bless everyone who lives in Your house, and they sing Your praises. You bless all who depend on You for their strength and all who deeply desire to visit Your temple.

The writer of the Psalm is giving a recap of the history of the people of Israel, telling time and time again of how God provided all that the people needed, but how quickly “they forgot all He had done.”

The Assyrian officials were attempting to do was to so discourage the people that they couldn’t win, so they would just fold up and quit. And that’s something probably all of us can relate to.

“Hezekiah sent a message to everyone in Israel and Judah… inviting them to the temple in Jerusalem for the celebration of Passover in honor of the LORD God of Israel.”

Humbly come before your God and seek His face.

“We will celebrate and praise You, LORD! You are good to us, and Your love never fails. No one can praise You enough for all of the mighty things You have done.”

Those things happened because Jehoram had turned away from the LORD

Faith produces fruit—good fruit, and that fruit is love.

On Taking Advice When you have a life decision to make, who do you talk to? Who do you trust to give you advice? And when you ask for someone’s opinion, do you take it at face value or do you make adjustments to it, refine it, modify it to make it your own? When you’re making a large decision and need to bounce it off somebody, are you looking for people who will tell...

It takes a Holy Spirit desire within us to realize our brokenness, our lostness, our need for forgiveness. It takes a Holy Spirit conviction to crush us with the weight of our sin, no matter how miniscule and unnoticeable we think our sin is.

Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness