Oct 31 2007
Examine me, God, from head to foot,
order your battery of tests.
Make sure I’m fit
inside and out.
Psalm 26:2 (The Message)
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me;
Try my mind and my heart.
Psalm 26:2 [...]
Oct 30 2007
Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.
Ephesians 1:4 (New Living Translation)
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
Ephesians 1:4 (New International Version)
Long before he laid down [...]
Oct 30 2007
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
—Philippians 2:5–7
Because Jesus was God, we might ask, [...]
Oct 29 2007
I’m not asking you to take them out of the world,
but to keep them safe from the evil one.
John 17:15 (New Living Translation)
My prayer is not that you take them out of the world
but that you protect them from the evil one.
John 17:15 (New International Version)
I’m not asking that you take them out of the [...]
Oct 27 2007
“…There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest ….” (Hebrews 4:8b-11 NIV)
Most of us think of the Sabbath as a day of rest, originating [...]
