Feb 29 2008
My message and my preaching were very plain. Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit. I did this so you would trust not in human wisdom but in the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:4-5 (New Living Translation)
My message and my preaching were not with wise [...]
Feb 28 2008
You will live in joy and peace.
The mountains and hills will burst into song,
and the trees of the field will clap their hands!
Isaiah 55:12 (New Living Translation)
You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
[...]
Feb 27 2008
That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.
Galatians 5:26 (The Message)
Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Galatians 5:26 (New International Version)
Let us not [...]
Feb 26 2008
The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.
2 Peter 3:9 (New Living Translation)
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, [...]
Feb 25 2008
Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.
Romans 3:24 (New Living Translation)
We are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
Romans 3:24 (New International Version)
Out of sheer generosity he put us in [...]
