What do we consider the most valuable thing in our lives? As we enter a new year, we have a great opportunity to evaluate our values. In this passage God through Paul teaches us the value of knowing Christ. Living for ourselves and our personal gain leaves us empty and discouraged, but knowing Christ completely…
If you have lived in this world, you know well that our flesh wants to follow the world in living for self. In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus leads us to choose between two options: the broad gate or the narrow gate. Letting biblical truth guide our decision-making, kingdom citizens must choose the rugged,…
Dear River Reach Family, And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to…
Dear River Reach Family, I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, clothed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire; 2 and he had in his hand a little book which was open. Revelation 10:1-2 God’s…
Dear River Reach Family, The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; 21 and they did not repent of…
Dear River Reach Family, And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, 3 saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we…
Dear River Reach Family, Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.” 2 I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given…
Dear River Reach Family, And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. 10 “You have made them to be a kingdom and priests…
Dear River Reach Family, After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.” 2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was…
Dear River Reach Family, For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:17 With the incredible honor of fatherhood comes overwhelming responsibility. God created the…