1 Thessalonians 5:11 – Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. Family, there are so many divisive issues in the world. Let’s not be people who spread divisiveness but rather be people who love and bless each other, especially among the fellowship. Let’s remember that God loves “the…
Continue ReadingMatthew 5:27-28 – “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” During Jesus’ time people understood adultery to be a physical act. In our days the world likewise shares the same definition. …
Continue ReadingPsalm 16:2, 5-9, 11 – I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.” 5 Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure. 6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. 7 I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at…
Continue Reading1 Corinthians 4:3-4 – I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. No not me! I don’t want your laws. I refuse to live by them. They will not shackle me. I am free to do whatever it is that my heart leads…
Continue ReadingFamily, I will be at the LG Leaders Retreat over the weekend and so will likely not send out any emails for a couple days. Revelation 16:8-11 – The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire. 9 They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name…
Continue ReadingMark 12:29-31 – “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than…
Continue ReadingGalatians 3:26 – So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. Colossians 1:12 – Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— Ephesians 2:10 – For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.…
Continue ReadingRevelation 14:14-16 – I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the…
Continue ReadingRevelation 14:14-16 – I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the…
Continue ReadingRevelation 13:3-4 – One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. 4 People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast?…
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