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Daily Devotional: March 9th, 2020
To Mary Neylan; A CLASSIC C.S. LEWIS DEVOTIONAL On troughs; on believing as an intellectual assent and as a psychological state; the despair of overcoming chronic temptations; and on how God likes to be asked. Lewis discloses that, at the direction of Father Adams, he has shortened an ever-lengthening list of people for whom he was praying. Sorry you’re in a trough. I’m just emerging (at least I hope I am) from a long one myself. As for the difficulty…
Daily Devotional: March 8th, 2020
Spring Training for Christians Written by Shawn McEvoy Originally Posted on Crosswalk, View Original Post Here So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 2 Corinthians 5:16 You’ve probably heard that God loves baseball. After all, He began his holy book with the words, “In the big inning…” Everyone who loves baseball like the Lord does feels a tremendous rush this…
Daily Devotional: March 7th, 2020
LENTEN DEVOTIONAL DAY 10 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles—Surely you have heard about the administration of God’s grace that was given to me for you, that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly. Ephesians 3:1-3 What do you think exactly what Paul is saying here? He talks about being a prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles, but…
Daily Devotional: March 6th, 2020
Lenten Devotional Day 9 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. Ephesians…
Tornado Response 2020
Originally Posted on tnumc.org, view original post here UMCOR Kits Needed kits are currently being sent to our area from the UMCOR Warehouse. We will need to replenish these supplies at a later date. If your church wants to put kits together – and has a place to store them – Hygiene Kits and Tornado Buckets will be needed in the weeks ahead. —– We are grateful for your prayers and financial assistance for all of our brothers and sisters in Christ who have been directly…
Daily Devotional: March 5th, 2020
Lenten Devotional Day 8 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He…
Daily Devotional: March 4th, 2020
Lenten Devotional Day 7 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. Ephesians 2:12-13 We all were separated from God. We were excluded and turned away, treated as foreigners. There was no hope and God was not…
Daily Devotional: March 3rd, 2020
Lenten Devotional DAy 6 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:8-10 We have been saved only through the grace of God. No matter what you do here on earth you can never…
Daily Devotional: March 2nd, 2020
Lenten Devotional Day 5 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-7 Think of the magnitude of…
Daily Devotional: March 1st, 2020
Lenten Devotional First Sunday They speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty—and I will meditate on your wonderful works. They tell of the power of your awesome works—and I will proclaim your great deeds. They celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness. The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made. Psalm 145:5-9 God is Good! He has done so many amazing things that we all should be…
Daily Devotional: February 29th, 2020
Lenten Devotional Day 4 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. Ephesians 2:1-3…
Daily Devotional: February 28th, 2020
Lenten Devotional Day 3 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. Ephesians 1:15-17 When Paul wrote Ephesians he provided wrote about giving thanks…