This week’s passage seems pretty applicable for Easter. These verses speak on reconciliation. And that’s what Easter is all about: Christ reconciling us to himself.
Pretty cool how that worked out.
The passage for this week is Matthew 5:23-24.
Here’s a link to the passage at Bible Gateway.
How are you doing with this? Let me know in the comments.
Our church is performing a pretty extensive evangelistic drama this week.
It’s called The Battle: Rise of Darkness. And it’s incredibly bold and creates and atmosphere where people are faced with the reality of life, death and eternity.
Here’s the concept: The Battle has several scenarios. In each of these scenes, someone dies. Sometimes it’s several people that die. All of a sudden, they are in the presence of Christ, and whether they enter heaven or are cast into hell depends on how they lived their life.
With several scenes portraying different tragedies, this drama is a major dose of the spiritual reality that we often ignore. Some of the include a car accident, a gang fight, a robbery gone bad, an earthquake, a plane crash, and a young child who gets a hold of a gun.
Like I said, it’s pretty intense.
Week 10! We’ve come a long way!
I don’t know about you, but memorizing the Sermon on the Mount is being very rewarding. It seems as if God is speaking the truth of each week’s passage into my life during the very week I’m memorizing it. Pretty amazing! My guess is that this week will be no different.
The passage for this week is Matthew 5:21-22. This is the murder/anger passage, and is very applicable in our world today.
Here’s a link to the passage at Bible Gateway.
Has any particular passage we’ve memorized so far really spoken to you? Let me know in the comments.
We’re up to week 9 as we memorize the Sermon on the Mount.
I’ve been really encouraged by these chapters from the book of Matthew. This memorization goal has been great for me, so far. And I only expect it to continue to get better the further we memorize in this passage.
The passage for this week is Matthew 5:19-20.
Here’s a link to the passage at Bible Gateway.
So far, what part of the Sermon of the Mount do you love the best? Let me know in the comments.
People who have a biblical worldview are rare in America. I firmly believe that to be the case. I’ve been in youth ministry for over twenty years, and I’ve watched our society spiral downward in that very short time.
I believe that this is due, in part, to our humanistic educational system. I’m not necessarily talking about the local school systems, although they could take a stronger stance on what they do and don’t teach. No, the problem reaches much higher than that, into the higher educational systems, and even the government board of education.
It’s been like this for decades. And it shows very little indication that it will get better soon.
Our culture has thrown away the Bible. It no longer has any authority in our lives.
Ready for week three?
Here it is.
I’ve found that keeping an index card in my pocket works best. Each time I reach into my pocket for my keys, I feel the card. My rule for myself is this: every time I feel the card, I pull it out and read it. Works great!
Here’s our passage for this week: Matthew 5:7-8.
And here’s a link to the passage at Bible Gateway.
How are you doing?
I ran across something intriguing this week in my Bible reading. It’s a passage I’ve read a hundred times before, but I’ve never noticed this; perhaps because my Bible of choice is a NASB or NIV. This year, I’m reading the NKJV, and this passage jumped out to me.
The passage is from Mark 5: 1-6. Here it is:
Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains, because he had often been bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones. When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped Him.
The last phrase is the one that stood out to me: “he ran and worshipped him.”
I’ve never noticed that before. In the NIV, it’s phrased “he fell on his knees in front of him.” The NASB translates it as “bowed down before him.” It’s interesting what you can pick up from reading the same passages in a different translation.
This idea fascinated me. Why would this demon-possessed man worship Jesus?