Deuteronomy 16:17:  Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. As Merrill points out each is to bring a gift to the Lord in proportion to the way the God has blessed you. This connects the vertical giving and grateful tribute of a covenant people… Read More »

Micah 6:8: He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God. Micah tell us what God expects from His people. First, to act justly. God is a God justice. We don’t live in a just world and… Read More »

Hebrews 6:4-6: For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once… Read More »

Ephesians 4:31-32: (ESV): Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Paul gives us instruction on how to live with one another. First he tells what not to do. Don’t… Read More »

Day 16 2 Timothy 3:1-5: (ESV): But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its… Read More »

Day 15 Colossians 1:12: (HCSB) giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light. What Paul is saying is that God has in His sovereign grace made us worthy to receive the inheritance of a heavenly home. We are not qualified through our own efforts. God… Read More »

Psalm 107:8 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity. This verse calls upon us to give thanks for God’s faithful love and His wondrous works. God translated His love into action for all humanity through providing a way of reconciliation for us through Jesus Christ.… Read More »

Luke 6:35-36: But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High. For he is gracious to the ungrateful and evil. 36 Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. In a point-by-point contrast to the selfish, quid… Read More »

  2 Timothy 4:4-5: (CSB): They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths. 5 But as for you, exercise self-control in everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. The passage today is from Paul’s last letter, written from prison while he awaits execution. These are some of… Read More »

John 10:10 (ESV): The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. The “I” in this verse of course is Jesus. The abundant life He speaks of I is life eternal. To many folks believe that eternity begins at the moment of death. It… Read More »