Parkview Baptist Church Ft. Pierce

09/08/2026

🙏 Prayer of the Day

Dear Father,

Sometimes I catch myself keeping score with You—adding up good days, subtracting bad ones, quietly wondering if I've somehow slipped outside Your kindness. But You are good to all. And today I want to believe that all really does mean all.

Thank You for a goodness I didn't earn and can't lose. Today I'm laying down the scorecard—not because I finally got it right, but because You never asked me to keep one. Help me stop striving and simply rest in who You've always been.

You are good. I am Yours. That's enough.

In Jesus' name, Amen.

🖋 Quote of the Day

“Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more... And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less.”

— Philip Yancey

09/07/2026

09/06/2026

Can’t be with us in person today? Join us through our livestream this morning at 10:45 a.m.!

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09/05/2026

Join us this Sunday, September 6 at 10:45 a.m. Don’t forget — 9:45 a.m. Growth Groups. Invite a friend! See you at church!

09/04/2026

🖋 Quote of the Day
"I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse."
― Philip Yancey

09/03/2026

“The wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy.” James 3:17 (NLT)

Mercy is like a diamond; it is multifaceted. If you will learn how to be an agent of mercy, it will transform your relationships.

1. Mercy means being patient with people’s quirks.

The Bible says in James 3:17, “The wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy” (NLT). The wiser you become, the more patient and merciful you become.

2. Mercy means helping anyone around you who is hurting.

You cannot love your neighbor as yourself without being merciful. Proverbs 3:27 says, “Whenever you possibly can, do good to those who need it” (GNT).

3. Mercy means giving people a second chance.

When somebody hurts you, it’s natural to want to get even or write that person off. But the Bible says, “Stop being bitter and angry and mad at others . . . Instead, be kind and merciful, and forgive others, just as God forgave you because of Christ” (Ephesians 4:31-32 CEV).

4. Mercy means doing good to those who hurt you.

Mercy is giving people what they need, not what they deserve. Why should you do that? Because that’s what God does with you: “Love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back . . . Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful” (Luke 6:35-36 NIV).

5. Mercy means being kind to those who offend you.

You need to be more interested in winning people to Christ than in winning an argument. The Living Bible paraphrase says it like this: “As for others, help them to find the Lord by being kind to them. . . . Hate every trace of their sin while being merciful to them as sinners” (Jude 1:23).

6. Mercy means building bridges of love to the unpopular.

This is what I call premeditated mercy, because you intentionally build friendships with people who don’t have friends or aren’t accepted at work or in society. When the Pharisees questioned why Jesus ate with tax collectors and other unpopular people, Jesus said, “‘I want you to show mercy, not offer sacrifices.’ For I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners” (Matthew 9:13 NLT).

— From Daily Hope with Rick Warreno

09/02/2026

🖋 Quote of the Day
"God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile."
― Max Lucado

09/01/2026

🙏 Prayer of the Day

Dear Father,
Help me see that no moment is too small when it’s offered to You. Teach me to honor You in the way I speak, serve, and show up—especially when no one else is watching.

In the quiet and in the routine, let my life become a living prayer. Fill each task with purpose, each word with grace, each step with love. Make my ordinary holy, Lord, simply because it’s done for You.

Let everything I do point back to You.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

🖋 Quote of the Day

“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”

— Martin Luther

08/31/2026

Is your life overflowing? If you’re like most people, it may be overflowing—but not with goodness. So many people have overbooked their calendars, overspent their money, overdrawn their credit, overloaded their emotions, overworked their bodies, overcrowded their days, and overvalued the approval of others. As a result, they wind up overstressed, overanxious, and overwhelmed—and they’re over it! They are far from experiencing the goodness of God.

Why do we do let ourselves get overextended? Often the fear of missing out motivates us to do more. But the truth is you’re not missing out on anything when you rest in the goodness and provision of God.

God wants to move you from being overwhelmed to overflowing. He wants to meet all your needs—and he can! First, you need to recognize two fundamentally different approaches to life that either keep you from God’s abundance or bring you into God’s abundance: a shortage mindset and a surplus mindset.

With a shortage mindset, you constantly think, “I don’t have enough time. I don’t have enough money. I don’t have enough energy or contacts or opportunities or knowledge or education.” It’s the sense that you’re always a day late and a dollar short. A shortage mindset focuses on your limited resources, and the result is an overwhelmed life.

A surplus mindset focuses on God’s limitless resources, and the result is an overflowing life.

Have you ever worried that the person breathing next to you is stealing your air? Of course not. You know that God created more than enough air for everybody to have all they need.

The Bible includes words like abundance, plentiful, abounding, and bountiful to describe what God has to offer you. God has more than enough to meet all your needs and everybody else’s needs at the same time.

The Message paraphrase tells us what Jesus said: “I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of” (John 10:10).

You don’t have to worry about running short of anything, because God is the source of your life. He wants to fill you with an endless supply of his goodness, joy, blessing, hope, and peace, so you’re able to say, “My cup overflows. Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life” (Psalm 23:5-6 NIV).

— From Daily Hope with Rick Warren