I’ve Got You

Colossians 1:11-20 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 11 May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He […]

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Surprising Love

Hosea 11:1-9 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 11 When Israel was a child, I loved him,     and out of Egypt I called my son. 2 The more I called them,     the more they went from me; they kept sacrificing to the Baals,     and offering incense to idols. 3 Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk,     I […]

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Take a Stand

1 Kings 18:17-39 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?” 18 He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you have, and your father’s house, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals. 19 Now therefore have all Israel […]

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A Wonder-full Life: Looking Out

1 Timothy 6:6-19 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 6 Of course, there is great gain in godliness combined with contentment; 7 for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it; 8 but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. 9 But those who want to be rich […]

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A Wonder-full Life: Looking In

Matthew 6:19-24 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rustconsume and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, […]

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A Wonder-full Life: Looking Back

Matthew 22:15-22 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) The Question about Paying Taxes 15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said. 16 So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and […]

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Tenacity Turns

Genesis 32:9-13, 22-30 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 9 And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,’ 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love […]

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What is Possible?

Genesis 18:1-15 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 18 The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. 2 He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them, […]

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Traveling Mercies

The Outsiders: The Traveler Luke 10:1-11; 16-20 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 10 After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. 2 He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord […]

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Freedom from Torment

The Outsiders: The Tormented Luke 8:26-39 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 26 Then they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. 27 As he stepped out on land, a man of the city who had demons met him. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he did not live in […]

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