May 25th, 2024
Read John 13:35 NIV By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” I have a new grand baby and much time has been spent trying to figure out who she looks like. She is changing so fast and as she does, our opinions about who she looks like […]
May 24th, 2024
Read 1 John 4:16 NIV And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. As I read and reread this verse today, and then I read all the surrounding verses in 1 John, I was struck by […]
May 23rd, 2024
Read 1 John 4:19 NIV We love because he first loved us. As a Jesus follower I try to live a good, upstanding life. I try to treat others with respect and extend grace because I believe that is how God would have me respond to the people around me. When I read my Bible […]
May 22nd, 2024
Read 1 Corinthians 16:14 NIV Do everything in love. Today’s verse is short…but it packs a wallop! Because “everything”….means EVERYTHING! There are no exceptions to the rule. Doing everything in love is a pretty tall order. I am not sure about you but there are days when I do most things because I feel obligated […]
May 21st, 2024
Read 1 Corinthians 13:1-2 NIV If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move […]
May 20th, 2024
Read Mark 12:30-31 NIV Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Last week I asked my granddaughter to throw away her paper […]
May 19th, 2024
Read 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NIV Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It […]
May 18th, 2024
Read Ephesians 2:19-22 19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become […]
May 17th, 2024
Read Ephesians 4:11-16 11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God […]
May 16th, 2024
Read Romans 12:3-8 3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4 For just as each of us has […]
