SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 35 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax, therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did…
Author: Norm
the good shepherd
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 34 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice. [Ezekiel 34:16, compare Luke 15:3-6] Some days it is easy to find a connection to Jesus; today…
a fickle audience
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 33 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: As for you, son of man, your people are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD.’ My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to…
The splash of God’s love
[April 28, 2011] On Easter Sunday we were able to witness the baptism of Lisa and her son Andrew. They came to Crossroads through the invitation of Lisa’s friend Michelle. They have been a part of our community since January 2011.
judgment day
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 32 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light. All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you; I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Sovereign…
when there’s no fruit
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 31 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I made it beautiful with abundant branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden in the garden of God. [Ezekiel 31:9] Today’s words are a warning to the king of Egypt, using the glory and fall of Assyria as an example of what is coming. Assyria is compared to a tree in…
God’s power and purpose
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 30 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord. [Ezekiel 30:26] Sometimes I find it hard to connect the reading for the day to Jesus; today was one of those days, but eventually the Lord led me to see…
what about Egypt?
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 29 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then all who live in Egypt will know that I am the Lord. ” ‘You have been a staff of reed for the people of Israel. When they grasped you with their hands, you splintered and you tore open their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke and their backs were…
Satan is defeated!
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 28 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings. [Ezekiel 28:17] Ezekiel likens the wicked king of Tyre to Satan himself, You were in Eden, the garden of God……