Ruthless Compassion

“Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.”

— ROMANS 12:2 (THE MESSAGE)

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The King’s Apprentices

“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”
— MARK 1:17

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Praying for those we Love

“I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit…”
— Ephesians 3:16, NRSV

The Sacred and Secular: Does Christ Differentiate?

“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”

— COLOSSIANS 1:15–20

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Missional Love

This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son…God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again.
— JOHN 3:16–17 (MSG)

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Let God Be God

“But the Lord replied,
‘Is it right for you to be angry?’”
— Jonah 4:4

Welcoming the Foreigner

“The community is to have the same rules for you and for the foreigner residing among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the Lord.”
— NUMBERS 15:15

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Declaring Truth

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
— PHILIPPIANS 2:9–11

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Prayer for Wisdom

“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you”
— James 1:5

Defending Dignity

“Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the week and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

— PSALM 82:3–4

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The Cliff

…If the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders… ?
— JUDGES 6:13

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Living in His Promises

“Things that are seen don’t last forever, but things that are not seen are eternal. That’s why we keep our minds on the things that cannot be seen”
— II Corinthians 4:18

How to Do Our Good Works

“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to live in peace. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”

— COLOSSIANS 3:15–17

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Jesus Our Model for Spirit-Filled Living

“…The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
— JOHN 14:10

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Dearest Father

“…When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name’…”
— Luke 11:2, NASB

Integrity Matters

I put in charge of Jerusalem my brother Hanani, along with Hananiah the commander of the citadel, because he was a man of integrity and feared God more than most men do.

— NEHEMIAH 7:2

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Why There Will Always Be a Church

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
— 1 PETER 2:4–5 (ESV)

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Prayer Moves the Hand that Moves the World

“Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.”
— James 5:16, The Message

A Great Fish or a Bunch of Cattle

And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labour, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

— JONAH 4:10–11 (ESV)

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Extravagant Devotion

Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume? It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money given to the poor.”
— MARK 14:4–5

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A Great Fish or a Bunch of Cattle

And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labour, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

— JONAH 4:10–11 (ESV)