Matthew 6:21-23-For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!Have […]
Matthew 5:47-48-And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. With my wife being out of town for the past week and half, the foreseen task of taking my kids to all their activities […]
Philippians 4:8–Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. One of the things that I learned early on as a Christian, is the need to repent of sins in […]
Ecclesiastes 9:10–Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going. As Christians, all of us probably have a scripture that has helped shaped our lives in some way. The kind of scripture when you think […]
Psalm 105:16-17–When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread,17 he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave. One of the things I believe we should learn to renew our minds to, is not devaluing the “course” which God uses to promote His […]
Romans 2:4–Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? My idea of God growing up wasn’t based on the Bible, but on “sayings” or “misunderstandings” of who God was. The God I heard about seemed to be […]
Psalm 95:7-9–For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice,8 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, 9 when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the […]
Deuteronomy 9:5–Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, […]
Deuteronomy 4:9–“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children— The idea of being motivated to be faithful, committed, and productive in life […]
Psalm 84:5-Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. I remember playing in a baseball or soccer game, and I couldn’t have been older than 10 years old at the time. But after the game I remember my mom saying to me, “that if you don’t play […]