Monthly ArchivesAugust 2020

John 14:23–26 14:23 Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him. 24 The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me. 25 I have spoken these things while staying with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.” One thought: People pay hundreds of dollars for tutors, life-coaches and counsellors. You got the greatest of them all and it ...

Rom 12:4–5 12:4 For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function, 5 so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.   One thought: Only God could bring together such a varied and flawed group of people and make them into something beautiful. Three questions: Who do we belong to? Do you see yourself as belonging to others? How could you act like you belong to your brothers/sisters in Christ today?   Prayer: Praise God for this wonderful creation of the Church. Give thanks that you have been included as part of Christ’s body. Ask God to help ...

John 1:9–13 1:9 The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognise him. 11 He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children 13 – children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.   One thought: To be adopted is to legally inherit not only the benefits, but also the responsibilities of the new family. Three questions: ...

John 5:24 5:24 I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.   One thought: God is the only source of true spiritual life, outside of Him we are dead but in Him we have true life. Three questions: What must anyone do to ‘cross over’ from death to life according to Jesus? Do you feel alive to God? Enjoy being truly alive today, giving thanks as you go about your day.   Prayer: Praise God that in Him true life can be found. Give thanks that in Jesus you have been made truly ...

1 Cor 6:9–11 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals, 10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. One thought: Christians often changed their name (think Simon/Peter) so that they might be reminded that they were a new person entirely in Christ.   Three questions: Why can’t the unrighteous inherit the kingdom of God? Do you ...

Gal 2:15–21 2:15 We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, 16 yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. 17 But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not! 18 But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one ...

John 3:16–18 3:16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18 The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.   One thought: The saving of the world condemned is an impossible mission – but what is impossible for man is possible in the God-Man. Three questions: ...

Rom 5:1–11 5:1 Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory. 3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance, character, and character, hope. 5 And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 (For rarely will anyone die for ...