Galatians 5:1-6 Common English Bible (CEB) 5 1 Christ has set us free for freedom. Therefore, stand firm and don’t submit to the bondage of slavery again. Arguments against being circumcised 2 Look, I, Paul, am telling you that if you have yourselves circumcised, having Christ won’t help you. 3 Again I swear to every man who has himself […]

Romans 8:26-39 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. 27 And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to […]

Romans 6:1-14 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 6 What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his […]

Romans 5:1-11 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 5 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have obtained accessto this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that […]

Romans 1:1-17 Common English Bible (CEB) 1 From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for God’s good news. 2-3 God promised this good news about his Son ahead of time through his prophets in the holy scriptures. His Son was descended from David. 4 He was publicly identified as God’s Son with power […]

Senior Reflections Shelby Bass, Nick Coenen, Austin Fabrizio, Victoria Fernandez, Nathan Hoffman, Alyson Hurley, Jacob Kuhn, Lucas Mastin, Mason Nordman, Johnathan Powell, Nick Ritland Acts 10:1-17; 34-35 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 10 In Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of the Italian Cohort, as it was called. 2 He was a devout man who feared […]

Matthew 28:16-20 New International Version (NIV) The Great Commission 16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples […]

Matthew 28:1-10 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 28 After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. 2 And suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance […]

Matthew 21:1-17 Common English Bible (CEB) 21 When they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus gave two disciples a task. 2 He said to them, “Go into the village over there. As soon as you enter, you will find a donkey tied up and a colt with it. Untie them and bring them to […]

Matthew 25:31-46 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33 and […]