December 5. Luke 7:41-50 41 “Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.42 Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?” 43 Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the […]

December 4 Romans 6:14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace. The spiritual program of recovery is not just for alcholics. We all need to admit “we are powerless over…….” Think of it this way. When the going gets tough what do you do?

December 3 John 4:14 ….whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal.   There is a more or less famous line from the movie ET when he says of humans we are “ugly bags of

December 2 Acts 10:39-43 39 “We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross, 40 but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. 41 He was not seen by all the people, but

December 1. Titus 3:4-5December 1 Titus 3:4-5 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. If we are honest with ourselves, and that in itself can be difficult, we know we are often self-centered, grumpy, and

November 30 John 6:47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. Modern science has made thought about heaven and eternal life difficult to imagine. In earlier times heaven was believed to be up  there somewhere above  the clouds. No one believes that any more. On the other hand I have

November 29 Hebrews 9:28 Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many…. I have written a song called Second Chances. The chorus begins, “He’s the God of second chances. I’m on my third one now!” Some of us take a while to get things right. In fact in the Daily Office and

November 28. 1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. On more than one occasion I got the following response to an invitation to come to church. “I wouldn’t dare. The roof might cave in!” light hearted no doubt. Yet it portrayed

November 27 Galatians 5:1  It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. I recently went through a season of irritability. Anything and everything would set me off. The big stuff might have been reasonably upsetting. There was

November 26 1 John 4:13-14 13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is