So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Romans 12:1...
So the Word became human and made his home among us. John 1:14 (NLT) Humanity and Divinity – Normal Series – Part 6 Go to PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 | PART 5 It’s hard to picture Jesus as a normal guy. We think of him as being, and know him to be, a...
For even the Son of Man did not come expecting to be served by everyone, but to serve everyone, and to give his life in exchange for the salvation of many. Matt 20:28 (TPT) Everyone Being Served – Normal Series – Part 5 Go to PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4...
The greatest honor and authority is reserved for the one with the heart of a servant. Matt 20:27 (TPT) Common Grace – Normal Series – Part 4 Go to PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 “Kings and those with great authority in this world rule oppressively over their...
Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? Matt 6:26 (NLT) Normal, Everyday, Ordinary Person – Normal Series – Part 3 Go to PART 1 | PART 2 The...
For even if you were to gain all the wealth and power of this world with everything it could offer you—at the cost of your own life—what good would that be? And what could be more valuable to you than your own soul? Matt 16:25 (TPT) Significance dwells not in your...
Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for? Matt 16:26 MSG Want to be Wanted – Normal Series – Part 1 Have you ever...
Let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. Heb 12:1 (NLT) Running Shoes – Part 1 Jesse (husband) loves running. Every second day, he gets up...
For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. James 1:3 (NLT) Endurance Rider The book of James was written around 47 AD, making it one of the earliest letters written that has been included in the New Testament. It gives us an...
These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold… 1 Pet 1:7 (NLT) When gold is pulled out of the earth, it's rough, dirty and misshapen. Before it can be...
