Posts from July 2017

Posts from July 2017

Daily Devotions – Why Parables?

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart: http://sothrichfield.podbean.com/   Matthew 13:10-17 (NIV) 10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” 11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not…

Daily Devotions – Giver of Life

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Al Campbell X http://sothrichfield.podbean.com/   Genesis 2:4-7 (NIV) 4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was…

Daily Devotions – God’s Plans for Our Lives

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Al Campbell http://sothrichfield.podbean.com/ Jeremiah 29:10-14 (NIV) 10 This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you…

Daily Devotions – Bloom Where You’re Planted

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Al Campbell http://sothrichfield.podbean.com/   Jeremiah 29:4-9New International Version (NIV) 4 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6 Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage,…

Daily Devotions – Caring For What God Has Planted.

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Al Campbell http://sothrichfield.podbean.com/ Jonah 4 (NIV) 4 But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in…

Daily Devotions – Accepting What Was Planted

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Al Campbell http://sothrichfield.podbean.com/   James 1:19-25 (NIV) 19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word…

Daily Devotions – Faith From the Outside

    Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Al Campbell http://sothrichfield.podbean.com/   Romans 10:11-17 (NIV) 11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.” 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 How, then,…

Daily Devotions – Long-term Production

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart: http://sothrichfield.podbean.com/   Psalm 1 1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. 3 That person is like a tree planted…

Daily Devotions – Good, Everyday Soil

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart: http://sothrichfield.podbean.com/ Psalm 147:7-11 (NIV) 7 Sing to the Lord with grateful praise; make music to our God on the harp. 8 He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills. 9 He provides food for the cattle and for the young ravens when they call. 10 His pleasure is not in…

Daily Devotions – Ordinary, Everyday Love

    Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   http://sothrichfield.podbean.com/   1 Corinthians 13:4-9 (NIV) 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7…