Last week we looked at the picture of the mercy seat, where we receive the mercy of atonement (covering, reconciliation) through Christ for our sins. By way of reminder, mercy is defined as “compassion, human or divine, especially active; kindness or good will towards the miserable and the afflicted, joined with a desire to help […]

In recently preaching on Matthew 5:7, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy,” I was overwhelmed with the references to “mercy” in the Bible. I found 359 occurrences of “mercy” in its various forms. Of these 359 occurrences, 56 of these are describing the “mercy seat”. The first usage of this term is […]

We can learn many things from God’s creation. This is one of them. I just found out today that the stress applied to steel in the cold-formed process actually makes the steel stronger. Here is a quote from an article that I read: In most cases, metal is cast or forged into the desired shape […]

For the Good News Club at Herndon Elementary, we are teaching a series of lessons entitled “Jesus: God of Power and Glory”. The memory verses for this series are Matthew 6:9-13, the Lord’s prayer (or better described as the Lord’s model prayer). Today’s verse was give us this day our daily bread. We learned how […]