“For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if...
“After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the Jews' Feast of Booths was at hand. So his brothers said to him, ‘Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. For no one works in...
I am going to love everyone
in my 30-foot circle. -Bail Bardis
Gail is a good friend of mine. When talking to her she can come up with some interesting statements that grab my intention. One such statement went like this: “I am going to love everyone in my 30-foot circle”. When she stated this...
"Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit..." Ephesians 5:18
"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that...
“The saying is trustworthy, for:
If we have died with him, we will also live with him;
if we endure, we will also reign with him;
if we deny him, he also will deny us;
if we are faithless, he remains faithful—
for he cannot deny himself.” (2 Timothy 2:11-13 ESV)
This is critical that we...
Hillariah was still among the early risers in the very early morning, where she and a few others prepared an early meal with the fire from gathered olives and pine seeds. She then was trying to recollect the vision that came to her that previous night.
She finished early as she ate with all the...
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share...
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from...
Romans 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord."
Hebrews 9:22
"In fact, according to the law of Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood. For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness."
Hebrews 10:17-18...
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.” (John 1:6-8 ESV)
“And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and...
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the...
“And he came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. And when he came to the place, he said to them, ‘Pray that you may not enter into temptation.’ And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed, saying, ‘Father, if you...
“And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, ‘Take this, and divide it among yourselves. For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.’ And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them...
Is emphasizing grace a "new wave of teaching?"
If we can keep the commands of Jesus then why was He asked, "Who then can be saved?"
How many of your sins were in the future when Jesus died on the cross?
What does it mean to confess?
If Christians are not holy and righteous in the eyes of...
What is compassion?
“If you only knew what compassion really is—
the compassion you must strive to imitate!
Overlooking everything to stoop to a heart’s
needs, paying no attention to any disappointments or ingratitude, being even kinder to those who
have hurt you. Just be your Christ for them...
“Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!” (Psalms 139:23-24 ESV)
“Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in...
Light is deeper buoying us up
Hell on earth can be experienced,
sometimes all one can do is breathe,
be in the moment and face the demon,
in faith, knowing that in the darkness,
light is deeper, still buoying us up,
stand on the rock, the sure foundation,
all things pass, yet love is eternal...
“Then he said to them, ‘Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you...
“And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples, ‘Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long...
Hillariah was told, as a few others nearby heard about this too. Hillariah said, "Let us now join together and we will call on Yahweh, that he will reveal what the nearby creature will mean to us. We will wait then knowing that Yahweh will give us some answer for us to know." They gathered...