Aug2019
Compassion
The Lord answered him, ‘You hypocrites! Any one of you would untie your bullock or your donkey from the stall and take it out to give it water on the Sabbath. Now here is this descendant of Abraham whom Satan has kept bound up for eighteen years; should she not be released on the Sabbath?’… Read more
Aug2019
Strong like an eagle
He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. He keeps me from the grave and blesses me with love and mercy. He fills all my life with good things, so that I stay young and strong like an eagle. (verses 3-5) Read Psalm 103:1-8 Sometimes I like to go out into the forest… Read more
Aug2019
Rock solid
Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death? As the scripture says, ‘For your sake we are in danger of death at all times; we are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered.’ No, in… Read more
Aug2019
Good out of bad
We know that in all things God works for good with those who love him, those whom he has called according to his purpose. Those whom God had already chosen he also set apart to become like his Son, so that the Son would be the first among many believers. And so those whom God… Read more
Aug2019
Labour pains
I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his children. For creation was condemned to lose its purpose, not of its own will, but because God… Read more
Aug2019
Access to God
Those who are led by God’s Spirit are God’s children. For the Spirit that God has given you does not make you slaves and cause you to be afraid; instead, the Spirit makes you God’s children, and by the Spirit’s power we cry out to God, ‘Father! My Father!’ God’s Spirit joins himself to our… Read more
Aug2019
Not guilty!
There is no condemnation now for those who live in union with Christ Jesus. . . But if Christ lives in you, the Spirit is life for you because you have been put right with God, even though your bodies are going to die because of sin. If the Spirit of God, who raised Jesus… Read more
Aug2019
Storm warning
Jesus said also to the people, ‘When you see a cloud coming up in the west, at once you say it is going to rain—and it does. And when you feel the south wind blowing, you say it is going to get hot—and it does. Hypocrites! You can look at the earth and the sky… Read more
Aug2019
A swell God
God presides in the heavenly council; in the assembly of the gods he gives his decision: ‘You must stop judging unjustly; you must no longer be partial to the wicked! Defend the rights of the poor and the orphans; be fair to the needy and the helpless.’ (verses 1-3) Read Psalm 82 My mother is… Read more
Aug2019
No sin today
I know that good does not live in me—that is, in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it. I don’t do the good I want to do; instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do. If I… Read more
