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Colossians 3:23-24 BSB Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men, because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. People talk about tithing being all about money, but it is not. God needs our time just as much. Think about how much time you spend with God every day…. How much time praying; how much time…
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Romans 12:1-2 BSB Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. We are to offer ourselves as holy sacrifices, in the spiritual worship of…
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Joshua 24:15 NIV But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” Joshua doesn’t say “we will serve the Lord on the Sabbath” or “we will serve the Lord after the field is plowed” or “we will…
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John 6:69-68 BSB From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him. So, Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you want to leave too?” Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life Many had been saved and baptized but they got bored or afraid or greedy or selfish and walked away; but not the disciples, they showed true. Things haven’t changed much in the 2000 or…
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Psalm 19:14 ESV Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. Oh, and on the subject of time, we also need to look at how much time, or how little time, we are spending with God in prayer. You cannot keep any relationship intact without communication, two-way communication. Prayer is a conversation with God. A good place to start with that is morning, noon…
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Romans 14:6 NASB He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God. What if all Christians did everything, every day, just for God? How would the world change? How would our lives change? Do you think it would make a difference? Well, we cannot make all those…
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Mark 10:13-14 BSB People were bringing the little children to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them. When Jesus saw this, He was indignant and told them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Very soon the kids will all be headed back to school. (Many of us are celebrating this) so for the month…
Family Lent Devotion: Week 7
WEEKLY SCRIPTURE: JOHN 20:1-18 (CEB) Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” Then Peter and the other…
Family Lent Devotion: Week 6
WEEKLY SCRIPTURE: LUKE 19:28-40 (CEB) After Jesus said this, he continued on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. As Jesus came to Bethphage and Bethany on the Mount of Olives, he gave two disciples a task. He said, “Go into the village over there. When you enter it, you will find tied up there a colt that no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If someone asks, ‘Why are you untying it?’ just say, ‘Its master needs…
Family Lent Devotion: Week 5
WEEKLY SCRIPTURE: JOHN 12-18 (CEB) Six days before Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, home of Lazarus, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Lazarus and his sisters hosted a dinner for him. Martha served and Lazarus was among those who joined him at the table. Then Mary took an extraordinary amount, almost three-quarters of a pound, of very expensive perfume made of pure nard. She anointed Jesus’ feet with it, then wiped his feet dry with her hair. The house…
Family Lent Devotion: Week 4
WEEKLY SCRIPTURE: LUKE 15:1-3, 11B-32 (CEB) All the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around Jesus to listen to him. The Pharisees and legal experts were grumbling, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” Jesus told them this parable: Jesus said, “A certain man had two sons. The younger son said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the inheritance.’ Then the father divided his estate between them. Soon afterward, the younger son gathered everything together…
Family Lent Devotion: Week 3
WEEKLY SCRIPTURE: LUKE 13:1-9 (CEB) Some who were present on that occasion told Jesus about the Galileans whom Pilate had killed while they were offering sacrifices. He replied, “Do you think the suffering of these Galileans proves that they were more sinful than all the other Galileans? No, I tell you, but unless you change your hearts and lives, you will die just as they did. What about those eighteen people who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell…