Romans 8:32 – “He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?” We applaud people in the world who give generously for a noble cause. Media glorifies a millionaire who gives his life earnings to a charity […]
Romans 8:18 - “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” All of us want to have a good future. We want to move onward and upward in life; we seek to accomplish something worthwhile and leave behind a good legacy. […]
Ephesians 5:1-2 – “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” Children are great imitators. They can replicate the exact tone, attitude and words that their parents use with them. Too often, kids […]
John 15:13-15—”Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my […]
Mark 5:30—”And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?” When a moving toy car slows down and then refuses to move, we say ‘must be the battery’ and recharge the battery. Once it regains lost charge, the car […]
Galatians 3:27—”For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” Someone described being united with Christ and putting on Christ in baptism as belonging on a team. The team’s uniform allows its members to recognize each other as a child of God and not focus on differences among the team. […]
Colossians 1:13-14—”He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. All of us have gone through a journey to have a personal experience of Christ Jesus or prior to being in […]
John 17:21—”so that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you …” ‘Human beings are innately social and are shaped by their experiences with others – relationships. An interpersonal relationship is a deep or close association or acquaintance between two or more people from brief to enduring […]
Matthew 22:29—”Jesus answered and said to them, ‘You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.’” This scripture has Jesus teaching the Pharisees and Seducees using a parable about those who are called by God and then those who are chosen by God. Following this, they questioned Jesus in a bid to trap […]
Hebrews 11:39—”And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.” This chapter of scripture focusses on ‘faith’. What it is. How we understand it and the very many examples in the Bible […]
