Stop Slamming the Door! I John 3:17-18 (ESV) “But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word
Continue readingDon’t Be Childish! I Corinthians 14:20 (MSG) Brethren, Be Not Children In Understanding To be perfectly frank, I’m getting exasperated with your childish thinking. How long before you grow up and use your head—your adult head? It’s all right to have a childlike unfamiliarity with evil; a simple no
Continue readingWhat’s Your End Goal! Colossians 1:28-29 (ESV) “Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone matured in Christ.” “For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.” Former
Continue readingFollow My Lead I Corinthians 11:1 (ESV) “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.” One Sunday morning in 1865 a black man walked into a upscale church in Richmond, Virginia. He came down the aisle as they were serving Communion and knelt at the altar.
Continue readingDo It Like Daddy! Ephesians 4:32 (ESV) “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” A nine year old boy named Tommie received a model ship from his great aunt while his dad was out
Continue readingAnswer the Cry! Proverbs 21:13 (ESV) “Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.” Babies communicate by crying. In order to get the attention of their caregivers or get their felt needs met, babies
Continue readingLook Out For Each Other! Philippians 2:3-4 (ESV) “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests
Continue readingI Feel Your Pain! I Corinthians 12:25-26 (ESV) “that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer
Continue readingDress for the Occasion! Colossians 3:12-15 (ESV) “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the
Continue readingTreat Each Other Right! Zechariah 7:9-10 (ESV) “Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil
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