Archive for May 2019

Matt. 23:8, 10But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. These are the words of Jesus Christ, the Messiah. He is God the Son, fully divine and fully eternal. When He…

John 15:15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. In life, we will have many kinds of relationships. Just because we interact with certain people on a frequent…

Deut. 6:5You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and with all your soul and with all your strength. The word lord can be defined as someone or something having power, authority or influence. Synonyms include master, ruler and sovereign. The scriptures are replete with passages which refer to God…

John 10:14-16I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to…

Matt. 6:9This, then, is how you should pray: “‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name…” When Jesus instructs us on how to pray, He begins with something incredible. There are a thousand ways to describe God. He is Lord, He is King, He is The Almighty, He is omnipotent and omniscient. God is perfectly…

Isa. 43:6b-7“Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth – everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.” For millennia man has questioned the basis for his existence. Seeking to find our purpose in this universe has driven us…

2 Cor. 10:17-18 “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends. Pride can be a crippling and alienating thing. It can drive us to devote all of our time and energy to accomplishing that one…

John 8:31-32 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” In this world, freedom is the pursuit of the masses. Wars are fought, and lives are sacrificed to gain it. People want the…

1 John 2:28And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. Before Christ, we may possess a certain kind of confidence. This can be confidence in our abilities, our station in life or our reputation. This confidence, however, only serves a…