Romans 5:1-5

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Psalm 8

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We find, know, and grow into whom God has made us to be as we live in and from the perspective of all the God is.

God created us. Our self-centeredness sometimes disguises that truth, and we think that God serves us, agreeing with our affinities and existing to make our every wish (or, at least, most of them) come true. Yet, as we accept and actualize the reality of God's majesty - Christ's lordship - our faithfulness brings us into the wholeness that enables us to live the responsibility of creation which God entrusts to us.




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Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

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Psalm 96

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Sing. Right now. Wherever you are, pause whatever you're doing and sing.

Dong know a song? Then make one up.

Give you song to God.

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Luke 4:14-30

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Luke 4:14-30

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John 16:12-15

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John 14:8-17

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Romans 8:14-17

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Psalm 104

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Acts 2:1-21

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For faith, life, and faithful living:

• Where in your life are you inviting the presence of the Holy Spirit?

Luke 4:14-30

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Acts 2:1-20

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For faith, life, and faithful living:

• How do you experience the presence and power of the Holy Spirit?

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2 Corinthians 5:14-15

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For faith, life, and faithful living:

• How are you living for Christ today?

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John 17:20-26

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For faith, life, and faithful living:

• With whom do you need to be in agreement?
• How are you helping that agreement to happen?

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Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21

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For faith, life, and faithful living:

• Where in your life are you expecting to find Jesus?
• How are your looking for Christ?

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Psalm 97

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For faith, life, and faithful living:

• Where are you experiencing the Glory of God today?
• With whom are you sharing that experience?

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Acts 16:16-34

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For faith, life, and faithful living:

• Consider the jailer whose life was changed. What convinced you to believe in Jesus?
• With whom have you shared your faith story?

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2 Corinthians 5:14-15

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For faith, life, and faithful living:

• What controls your life?
• How are you letting Christ guide you?

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Exodus 2:1-10

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Moses Before Pharaoh's Daughter, illustration from the 1890 Holman Bible

For faith, life, and faithful living:

• It what ways does your mother give to you?

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John 14:23-29

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Statue représentant la rouakh (ruach) Saint-Esprit, dans l'église du marché (Marktkirche) de Goslar;
oeuvre contemporaine

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Revelation 21:10, 22–22:5

Read: Revelation 21:10, 22–22:5

For faith, life, and faithful living:

• How are you seeing the Light of Christ is yourself?
• How are you shining the Light of Christ from yourself to help someone else see?

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Psalm 67

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For faith, life, and faithful living:

• How are you thanking God today?
• How are you sharing God's blessing with someone?

Acts 16:9-15

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Lydia was unique as an entrepreneur in a male-dominant culture. Her response to learning about Jesus was to offer hospitality to Paul.

For faith, life, and faithful living:

• How are you  sharing your faith in Jesus with your professional colleagues?
• To whom will offer hospitality today?

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Exodus 2:1-10

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Finding of Moses, Bible illustration

It is difficult for us to imagine Jochebed's  courage. She is faithfully confident that God will save and provide for her son, Moses.

For faith, life, and a faithful living:

• How do you remember your mother faithfully caring for you?
• If you are a mother, how are you sharing your faith with you child/ren?

John 14:23-29

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Read verse 26 again.

The musical, The Fantastics, gave us the song, "Try to Remember."

Try to remember the kind of Septemberwhen life was slow and oh, so mellow.Try to remember the kind of Septemberwhen grass was green and grain was yellow.Try to remember the kind of Septemberwhen you were a tender and callow fellow,Try to remember and if you remember the follow.

Try to remember when life was so tender
that no one wept except the willow.
Try to remember when life was so tender that
dreams were kept beside your pillow.
Try to remember when life was so tender that
love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember and if you remember then follow.

Deep in December it's nice to remember
altho you know the snow will follow.
Deep in December it's nice to remember
without the hurt the heart is hollow.
Deep in December it's nice to remember
the fire of September that made us mellow.
Deep in December our hearts should remember and follow.

For faith, life, and faithful living:

• What faithful memories are you recalling today?
• What faithful memories will you create today?

John 14:23-29

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A baroque fresco in Holy Spirit church in Vilnius

Read verse 26 again.

For faith, life, and faithful living:

• Of what do you need the Holy Spirit to remind you?
• Remembering, how will you live it?

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John 13:31-35

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Jesus showed us that God's nature is love. He taught his disciples that people would recognize them as his followers as they expressed their love for each other.

For faith, life, and faithful living:

• How are you expressing Jesus' love today?
• Who will you invite to worship God with you this Sunday so that they may experience Jesus' love for them?

Revelation 21:1-6

Read: Revelation 21:1-6

Revelation is a book of rich, symbolic language. Even as it speaks of an ultimate future, it assures us of Christ's eternal presence now.

For faith, life, and faithful living:

• Where have you recently experienced Christ making something new in your life?
• Whom have you told about this experience?

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Psalm 148

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All of creation, as far as you can see, as far as you can imagine, praises God. God created it all; God created us all.

For faith, life, and faithful living:

• Where are you seeing, hearing, God's creation today?
• With whom are you sharing the experience?

Psalm 23

Psalm 23

Psalm 23 may be one of the best known passages in the Bible. Generations of Christians have memorized this Psalm in the King James Version:

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:   he leadeth me beside the still waters.He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness   for his name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,   I will fear no evil: for thou art with me;   thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:   thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:   and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

Jesus often used agricultural stories in his teachings because they were easily understood by the people who worked the land and cared for the animals. In John, chapter 10, Jesus refers to himself as the 'Good Shepherd.'

For your faith, life, and faithful living:

• How does Psalm 23 help you to understand Jesus?
• With whom will you share Psalm 23 as a reminder of God's great love for them?