Archive for August 2022
S153P5 – These we must accept: a life assigned
1 Cor. 7: 17-20 Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches. Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone…
Read MoreS153P4 – These we must accept: loved ones lost
Mt. 10:34-37 Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those…
Read MoreS153P3 – These we must accept: affliction assured
2 Cor. 1:3-7 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. …
Read MoreNo island is a good island
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xswh6-12acbfa The truth is simple: we were made for one another. No one can go it alone. There is no such thing as a 1-on-1 relationship with God yet without his people. His word does not leave room for that. In God’s kingdom, you must be part of the Church to be part of him.
Read MoreS153P2 – These we must accept: a change in relationships
Lk. 20:29-36 “Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. And the second and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. Afterward the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.” …
Read MoreS153P1 – These we must accept: only few
Mt. 7:13-14 Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. We spend our time praying…
Read MoreS152P9 – Our saintly duty: view others equally
Jam. 2:1-5 My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who…
Read MoreS152P8 – Our saintly duty: purge the leaven
1 Cor. 5:6-8 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old…
Read MoreS152P7 – Our saintly duty: make disciples
Mt. 28:16-20 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all…
Read MoreS152P6 – Our saintly duty: sow in the Spirit
Gal. 5:6-9 Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who…
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