Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.” He took a little child whom he placed among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and…

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:19. How can we know the goodness that is God? We trust Him for all things.  I love in this chapter, Psalm 27, that David knows and shares with…

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16.  In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.” Luke 22:20. …

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21. The word of God is living and powerful, and sharper…

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 1 Corinthians 3:16.  Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Ephesians 5:14.  This morning in our early morning prayer group, we did a Visio Divina where we looked at 2 pictures and shared what…

And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest. Exodus 33:14.  Do we truly consider how very personal this psalm, Psalm 23, is to us in our times of need? When we go through a dark valley where we can’t see and where a grayness presses in all around us –…

The life-maps of God are right, showing the way to joy. Psalm 19:8 The Message Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all you who hope in the Lord. Psalm 31:24. NKJV Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the…

Since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. 1 Thessalonians 5:8.  A remarkable thing happens when we turn to our Creator God – Father, Son, Spirit. We have His attention. He has our attention. Now this…is…eternal life: that they know you, the…

You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. John 5:39, 40.  How do we begin to understand? Yesterday in church we were all there when two young men were baptized and I…