Archive for September 2020

John 15:17 This [is what] I command you: that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another. It was pretty obvious when I changed my group of friends in high school.  The first sign was that my appearance was drastically different. I did not dress the same or wear my hair the same…

John 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. He had been doing the job for years and was competent enough…

John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. As associates, our knowledge of the direction the firm would take came only after…

John 15:14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. I have had some friendships which were rather low-maintenance, but I also have had some friends who required a lot more attention and support.  No doubt I have been a friend like that at times, needing a listening ear or asking for…

John 15:12-13 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. Their friendship started when they were very young.  Their earliest memories of playing in club houses and catching fireflies at night always included…

Jam. 1:19-21 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore, put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. From…

Eph. 4:19-24 [The Gentiles] have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which…

Luke 9:42-43a While he was coming, the demon threw him to the ground and convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. And all were astonished at the majesty of God. He was just a foolish kid who thought everything was fun and games. …