FAITHFULNESS Friday Read: Philippians 4:1-5, Galatians 6:1-2 1 “Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends! 2 I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. 3 Yes, and I…

FAITHFULNESS Thursday Read: Colossians 2:20-23 “20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based…

FAITHFULNESS Wednesday Read: 1 John 1:9 “9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” (NIV 1 John 1:9) Study: We all sin. We know that. But, how many of us truly confess our sins? Most of us are, what I…

FAITHFULNESS Tuesday Read: Matthew 25:14-29 14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. 15 To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag,[a] each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16 The man who had received five…

FAITHFULNESS Monday Read: Lamentations 3:17-26 “17 I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.18 So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord.” 19 I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. 20 I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within…

HOPE IN OUR WORLD Friday Read: Revelation 19:5-9, 21:1-6 “5 Then a voice came from the throne, saying: “Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, both great and small!”6 Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: “Hallelujah!…

HOPE IN OUR WORLD Thursday Read: Isaiah 2:2-4, 11:6-9, 65:17-19 2 In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.3 Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the…

HOPE IN OUR WORLD Wednesday Read: John 20:24-29 “24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my…

HOPE IN OUR WORLD Tuesday Read: John 20:19-23 “19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were…