October 7, 2024
Scripture Reference – Matthew 6:25-34 (CEB): “Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or […]
Read MoreSeptember 29, 2024
Scripture Reference – Mark 5:24-35 (NRSV): So he went with him. And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. Now there was a woman who had been suffering from a flow of blood for twelve years. She had endured much under many physicians and had spent all that she had, and she was no […]
Read MoreSeptember 22, 2024
Scripture Reference – Ruth 1:16-18 (CEB): But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to abandon you, to turn back from following after you. Wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Wherever you die, I will die, and there […]
Read MoreSeptember 16, 2024
Scripture Reference – John 4:1-26 (CEB): Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was making more disciples and baptizing more than John (although Jesus’ disciples were baptizing, not Jesus himself). Therefore, he left Judea and went back to Galilee. Jesus had to go through Samaria. He came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, which was near […]
Read MoreSeptember 9, 2024
Scripture Reference –Matthew 5:13-16 (CEB): “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its saltiness, how will it become salty again? It’s good for nothing except to be thrown away and trampled under people’s feet. You are the light of the world. A city on top of a hill can’t be hidden. Neither do […]
Read MoreSeptember 3, 2024
Scripture Reference – Matthew 28:16-20 (CEB): Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus told them to go. When they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted. Jesus came near and spoke to them, “I’ve received all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in […]
Read MoreAugust 26, 2024
Scripture Reference – Micah 6:6-8 (NRSV): “With what shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, […]
Read MoreAugust 19, 2024
Scripture Reference: Romans 12:1-8 (CEB) So, brothers and sisters, because of God’s mercies, I encourage you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice that is holy and pleasing to God. This is your appropriate priestly service. Don’t be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds so […]
Read MoreAugust 12, 2024
Scripture Reference: 1 Peter 2:4-10 (CEB) Now you are coming to him as to a living stone. Even though this stone was rejected by humans, from God’s perspective it is chosen, valuable. You yourselves are being built like living stones into a spiritual temple. You are being made into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual […]
Read MoreAugust 5, 2024
Scripture Reference: Acts 18:1-4 (CEB) After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus. He had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul visited with them. Because they practiced the same trade, he stayed and […]
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