dW 08.20.09

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scripture

 

Jude 17-21

But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires." These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

 

En Espanol, Judas 1:17-21

 

quote

 

However holy or Christ-like a Christian may become, he is still in the condition of "being changed."

John Stott

dW 08.19.09

dW

 

scripture

 

Matthew 5:43-48

Jesus taught, "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

 

En Espanol, Mateo 5:43-48

 

quote

 

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
Mary Anne Evans

 

news

 

dW 08.18.09

dW

 

scripture

 

3 John 1:11

Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.

 

En Espanol, 3 Juan 1:11

 

quote

 

No Christian is where he ought to be spiritually until the beauty of the Lord Jesus Christ is being reproduced in daily Christian life.

A. W. Tozer 

dW 08.14.09

dW

 

scripture

 

2 Corinthians 12:7-10     

To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

 

En Espanol, 2 Corintios 12:7-10

 

quote

 

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
Bo Bennett

 

thought

 

What thorn is there present in your life? Are you allowing it to control you? Are you allowing it to teach you? Personally, my present thorn is controlling me. I am allowing it to consume my thoughts. I am allowing it to make me act in snide ways. I did not realize how much I relied on myself until now. I am being taught that I am hopelessly inadequate to operate on anything other than God’s good grace.

dW 08.13.09

dW

 

scripture

 

John 15:15-17

Jesus spoke, saying, “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other.”

 

En Espanol, Juan 15:15-17

 

quote

 

Believers are not hired servants, supporting themselves by their own work, but children maintained at their Father’s expense.

Horatius Bonar

dW 08.11.09

dW

 

scripture

 

1 Peter 1:23-25

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you.

 

En Espanol, 1 Pedro 1:23-25

 

quote

 

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

 

lyrics

 

Until you find something worth dying for, you are not really living.

Rebecca Saint James

dW 08.10.09

dW

 

scripture

 

Galatians 1:6-9

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!

 

En Espanol, Gálatas 1:6-9

 

 

quote

 

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils.  Here I take my stand.

Martin Luther

 

hymn

 

On Christ the solid rock I stand

All other ground is sinking sand,

All other ground is sinking sand

dW 08.07.09

dW

 

scripture

 

John 13:34-35

Jesus speaking, "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

 

En Espanol, Juan 13:34-35

 

thought

 

Jesus said that we must love one another as He has loved us. Meditate on this - How does Jesus love me? How then should I love others? Then ask God to help you to love.

 

quote

 

Hospitality is one form of worship.

Jewish proverb

dW 08.06.09

dW

 

scripture

 

Romans 6:12-14

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

 

En Espanol, Romanos 6:12-14

 

quote

 

Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever.

Book of Common Prayer

dW 08.05.09

dW

 

scripture

 

Romans 12:2

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

 

En Espanol: Romanos 12:2

 

quote

 

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.
Timothy Radcliffe

 

image

 

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