May
29
2008
I have swept away your sins like a cloud.
I have scattered your offenses like the morning mist.
Oh, return to me,
for I have paid the price to set you free.
Isaiah 44:22 (New Living Translation)
I have blotted out, like a thick [...]
Tags: repentance
May
28
2008
Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master.
Romans 12:11 (The Message)
Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
Romans 12:11 (New International Version)
Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically.
Romans 12:11 (New Living Translation)
Tags: tiredness
May
27
2008
This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
1 John 4:10 (New Living Translation)
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John [...]
Tags: love
May
26
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 [...]
Tags: pride
May
24
2008
by Max Lucado
If you ever wonder how in the world God could use you to change the world, look at the people God used to change history. A ragbag of ne’er-do-wells and has-beens who found hope, not in their performance, but in God’s proverbially open arms.
Abraham- God took what was good and forgave what was [...]
Tags: open arms