Scripture: Matthew 9:16 “No one sews a piece of new, unshrunk cloth on old clothes because the patch tears away the cloth and makes a worse tear. Thought for the Day: Side Note: This is the first verse from the passage I will use tomorrow in worship. Recently my wife pulled out a pair of socks to throw away. They were clearly worn out – big holes. I
Scripture: 1st John 4:9 This is how the love of God is revealed to us: God has sent his only Son into the world so that we can live through him. Thought for the Day: One of the most common phrases tossed around within Christianity is: “…so that we might have eternal life.” The idea is that we get to go be with Jesus upon our death as
Scripture: Jeremiah 29:11 I know the plans I have in mind for you, declares the LORD; they are plans for peace, not disaster, to give you a future filled with hope. Thought for the Day: The people of Israel find their current circumstance to be horrible, yet God seems to suggest that they are to accept this new reality. Salvation can be found even in this foreign land.
Scripture: Deuteronomy 5:12-14 Keep the Sabbath day and treat it as holy, exactly as the LORD your God commanded: Six days you may work and do all your tasks, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Don’t do any work on it—not you, your sons or daughters, your male or female servants, your oxen or donkeys or any of your animals, or the
Scripture: Deuteronomy 5:1 Moses called out to all Israel, saying to them: “Israel! Listen to the regulations and the case laws that I’m recounting in your hearing right now. Learn them and carefully do them…” Thought for the Day: A lot of what Moses presented as “regulations” and “case laws” that “Israel was to learn and carefully do” are items that most people would generally support. At the
Scripture: Deuteronomy 21:18-21 Now if someone has a consistently stubborn and rebellious child, who refuses to listen to their father and mother—even when the parents discipline him, he won’t listen to them—the father and mother will take the son before the elders of that city at its gates. Then they will inform the city’s elders: “This son of ours is consistently stubborn and rebellious, refusing to listen to
Scripture: Psalm 57:1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, until the destroying storms pass by. Thought for the Day: I would like to make a recommendation. In times of difficulty, crisis or chaos, pull out this passage. Whether it is your personal experience or someone you know,
Scripture: 1st Peter 2:11-13 Dear friends, since you are immigrants and strangers in the world, I urge that you avoid worldly desires that wage war against your lives. Live honorably among the unbelievers. Today, they defame you, as if you were doing evil. But in the day when God visits to judge they will glorify him, because they have observed your honorable deeds. For the sake of the
Scripture: 1st Peter 2:9-10 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people who are God’s own possession. You have become this people so that you may speak of the wonderful acts of the one who called you out of darkness into his amazing light. Once you weren’t a people, but now you are God’s people. Once you hadn’t received mercy, but now
Scripture: 1st Peter 1:22-23 As you set yourselves apart by your obedience to the truth so that you might have genuine affection for your fellow believers, love each other deeply and earnestly. Do this because you have been given new birth—not from the type of seed that decays but from seed that doesn’t. This seed is God’s life-giving and enduring word. Thought for the Day: The Qumran Community