October 24th, 2024

Read Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV Trust in the Lord with all your heart     and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him,     and he will make your paths straight. In the midst of difficult things in my life, I will admit that verses like today’s can be challenging to live out.  […]

October 23rd, 2024

Read John 9:1-3 NLT As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.  “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?” “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This […]

October 22nd, 2024

Read Romans 8:20-22 NLT Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope,  the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay.  For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up […]

October 21st, 2024

Read Psalm 10:1 NIV Why, Lord, do you stand far off?     Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? There are times in my life when I feel like I could have written the words in today’s Psalm. Times when I have felt so alone and confused by what seems like a lack of […]

October 20th, 2024

Read Ephesians 1:17-18 NIV I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.  I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which […]

October 19th, 2024

Read Gal 5:14-16, 19-23  (v 14-16) For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”  If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.  So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the […]

October 18th, 2024

Read Acts 2:46-47 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. Growing up, I remember […]

October 17th, 2024

Read Hebrews 10: 23-25 NIV Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.  And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,  not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the […]

October 16th, 2024

Read Romans 12:4-8 NIV For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.  We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of […]

October 15th, 2024

Read Colossians 3:16 NLT Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts. Yesterday we explored what the Church is supposed to be – an Ekklesia; a community or […]