Scripture: John 4:1-3 Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was making more disciples and baptizing more than John (although Jesus’ disciples were baptizing, not Jesus himself). Therefore, he left Judea and went back to Galilee. Thought for the Day: There are things we’ve read but never really noticed. I’m pretty certain I’ve read these verses of scripture numerous times, yet for some reason the fact
Scripture: Psalm 18:46-49 The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God my Savior! He is the God who avenges me, who subdues nations under me, who saves me from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from a violent man you rescued me. Therefore I will praise you, LORD, among the nations; I will sing the praises of your name. Thought for the Day:
Scripture: Isaiah 43:18-19 Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Thought for the Day: JaMarcus Russell was the #1 pick in the 2007 NFL Draft. He was chosen by the Raiders to be
Scripture: Ephesians 6:19-20 Pray also for me, so that when I speak, a message may be given to me to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it boldly, as I must speak. Thought for the Day: I am both humbled and thankful for the number of people in the life of the
Scripture: Joel 2:12-13 Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing. Thought for the Day: When we have done something wrong, I don’t believe God
Scripture: Romans 5:2-6 We have access by faith into this grace in which we stand through him, and we boast in the hope of God’s glory. But not only that! We even take pride in our problems, because we know that trouble produces endurance, endurance produces character, and character produces hope. This hope doesn’t put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in
Scripture: Deuteronomy 10:12-13 Now in light of all that, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you? Only this: to revere the LORD your God by walking in all his ways, by loving him, by serving the LORD your God with all your heart and being, and by keeping the LORD’s commandments and his regulations that I’m commanding you right now. It’s for your own good!
Scripture: Proverbs 8:27-31 When the Lord established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside
Scripture: James 1:26-27 If those who claim devotion to God don’t control what they say, they mislead themselves. Their devotion is worthless. True devotion, the kind that is pure and faultless before God the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their difficulties and to keep the world from contaminating us. Thought for the Day: In the last three days, I have received emails, calls,
Scripture: Psalm 45:1 (the Message) My heart bursts its banks, spilling beauty and goodness. I pour it out in a poem to the king, shaping the river into words… Thought for the Day: I love the way the Message translates this verse, and though it goes on to speak about a royal bridegroom, it offers this metaphor of the banks bursting with beauty and goodness. I don’t want