Romans 12: 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. I was driving today when this verse popped in my mind. The thought that came with it […]
2 Corinthians 13: 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. This is Paul’s closing in his second letter to the Corinthians. He is sending his best wishes, hopes and prayers to them just as many of us do […]
1 Chronicles 9: 1 So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was carried away into exile to Babylon for their unfaithfulness.People struggle over what they perceive as an angry God of the Old Testament. Admittedly, there is a different tone […]
Job 9: 24 If it is not he, then who is it? You know the story of Job and of how great his suffering was. Job was a godly man so when calamity struck his house he was bewildered. The book of Job records conversations he had with his “friends”. In today’s passage Job is […]
John 21: 15 So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me? That was a loaded question. If you have ever heard a teaching on this passage which delves into the Greek words for “love” you know that Peter was really up against the wall […]
John 13: 34 “A new commandment I give you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” John 15: 13 “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.” Jesus gave us one commandment knowing if we would live […]
2 Samuel 22: 26 – 27 NIV To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.In our discipleship we desire to reflect the grace of the Lord. When people look at us, we hope […]
