Monthly Archives: December 2016
Christmas Hospitality
Romans 12:13 (NIV) Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. Hebrews 13:2 (NIV) Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Lord we blame the innkeeper for only giving you the stable when his inn was full but what … Continue reading
Time: A Precious Commodity–Don’t Waste It
Ecclesiastes 3:17 (NIV) I thought in my heart, “God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed.” Ecclesiastes 10:18 (NIV) If a man is lazy, the rafters sag; if his hands are idle, the house leaks. … Continue reading
Less world, more God
Mark 10:15 (NIV) I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it. Romans 12:2 (NIV) Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be … Continue reading
Give Us Vision
Psalm 119:18 (NIV) Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (NIV) We live by faith, not by sight. Revelation 1:7 (NIV) Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the … Continue reading
Peace & Reconciliation
Matthew 5:9 (NIV) Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. James 3:18 (NIV) Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness. 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 (NIV) 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: … Continue reading
Never ashamed
Romans 1:16 (NIV) I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the … Continue reading
First among fruits: Love
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV) And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. Galatians 5:22 (NIV) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness. Colossians 3:14 (NIV) And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together … Continue reading
God’s Love Saves Us from the Pit (In turn–love others)
Psalm 31:21-22 (NIV) 21 Praise be to the LORD, for he showed his wonderful love to me when I was in a besieged city. 22 In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for … Continue reading
The Comfort of God’s Love
Psalm 103:1-14 (NIV) 1 Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. 2 Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits– 3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, 4 who redeems your life from the pit … Continue reading
Be a Light
Ephesians 5:8 (NIV) For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light Matthew 5:14 (NIV) “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.” “Lord, like the star, the Christian is the light that belongs to the … Continue reading