Tag: Jesus

  • Dead and gone. Dead and here.

    Dead and gone. Dead and here.

    ‌📖 Read ‌Matthew 22:31-32; Hebrews 11:33–12:2 ‌🔎 Focus ‌ “‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is God not of the dead but of the living.” Matthew 22:32 ‌“[Jesus] will come again to judge the living and the dead” The Apostle’s Creed ‌”I believe in…the resurrection…

  • Hallowed and Halos

    Hallowed and Halos

    ‌📖 Read ‌Matthew 10:32–39; Matthew 28:16–20; Hebrews 11:33–12:2 ‌🔎 Focus “Everyone, therefore, who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven, but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.” ‌Matthew 10:32–33 NRSVue ‌ “I believe in…the communion of saints” The Apostle’s Creed ‌…

  • Evening Recall

    Evening Recall

    “Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly; gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the aged; gather the children, even infants at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her canopy. Between the vestibule and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep.…

  • Separating Ourselves

    Separating Ourselves

    Romans 8:31–39, 1 John 4:7-12 📖 Read ‌Romans 8:31–39 , 1 John 4:7–12 ‌🔎 Focus ‌”…nothing…can separate us from the love of God…”Romans 8:39 ‌‌✟ Devotion ‌There is a fundamental truth, here, that no Christian should ever deny. Yet, if you read the list of “separators” that Paul notes, what do you see as missing?…

  • Hearts and Ashes

    Hearts and Ashes

    Is, happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered, the way you live?

  • Devoted?

    Devoted?

    Jesus said, “…if you haven’t been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you your own?” It’s not just about an employer or shareholder or spouse or family, it’s about God.

  • Narrowed Ways

    Narrowed Ways

    ‌What if, when Jesus speaks about the narrow gates and hard roads, he was transitioning from treating others as you’d have them treat you to looking out for false prophets? The narrow gate and the hard road become transformed.

  • Our Blindings

    Our Blindings

    When Jesus is asked who is saved, Jesus speaks about the narrow way. What if the narrow way is not about what we think it is?