
God Commands
Read: Matthew 22:34-40 You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (v. 39) Why is it so hard to love ourselves? It’s very easy to find fault with our bodies: “I

Read: Matthew 22:34-40 You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (v. 39) Why is it so hard to love ourselves? It’s very easy to find fault with our bodies: “I

Read: Deuteronomy 7:6-9 It is because the LORD loves you. (v. 8) I have always loved grandfather clocks. I love listening to the chimed melody every fifteen minutes on the

Read: Isaiah 49:13-18 I will not forget you. (v. 15) Have you ever felt forgotten? Feeling forgotten is a lonely feeling. Feeling forgotten can lead us to believe we are

Read: Genesis 16:6-16 You are the God who sees me. (v. 13 NIV) Children love hiding from others as a game. As adults, we also hide in different ways. Sometimes

Read: Genesis 1:26-31 Let us make humans in our image. (v. 26 NRSV) The Sioux people of the northern Great Plains in North America believed the longest distance we journey

Read: Romans 8:31-39 [Nothing] will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (v. 39) The first thing humankind did after disobeying God in

Read: Romans 8:31-39 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” (v. 31) The Bible uses several different prepositions to qualify

Read: Romans 8:18-25 For in this hope we were saved. (v. 24) Hope is one of the great words of the Christian faith, but it tends to be overused and misused

Read: Romans 8:18-25 The redemption of our bodies. (v. 23) The bodily resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of the Christian faith. Everything we believe and hope for depends on the