Memory Verse; For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
Mark 1, Psalms 149
We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
Abba, praise to the creator who made me an image of God. Amen (REM)
Memory Verse; For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
Catch up day, Psalms 148
It just hurts so much at times, being human. Not understanding yourself, not liking the body you’re stuck in. Seeing your eyes in the mirror and wondering whose they are, always with the same question: “What’s wrong with me? Why do I feel like this?” Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
Lord, grant us courage to fight the good fight by treating everybody right. Amen. (Commonprayer.net)
Memory Verse; For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
Catch up day, Psalms 147
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers will bring us to Him. When it becomes really necessary (i.e. for our spiritual life, not for controversy or curiosity) to know whether a particular passage is rightly translated or is Myth (but of course Myth specially chosen by God from among countless Myths to carry a spiritual truth) or history, we shall no doubt be guided to the right answer. But we must not use the Bible (our ancestors too often did) as a sort of Encyclopedia out of which texts (isolated from their context and read without attention to the whole nature and purport of the books in which they occur) can be taken for use as weapons. C.S. Lewis
Grow us slowly, persistently, and deeply, Lord, to be -people who watch without distraction, listen without interruption, and stay put without inclination to flee. Amen. (Commonprayer.net)
Memory Verse; For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
Matthew 28, Psalms 146
Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
Rich Mullins
Our Gracious God,
Where we have been wounded, we are often tempted to strive for control. Yet You are the great I AM. Truly our healing deepens and our freedom increases with every step of faith in Christ our Lord. Help us trust in You so we do not forget Your benefits. In the Name of Christ, amen. (Adah Hutchcraft)
Memory Verse; For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
Matthew 27, Psalms 145
Sometimes it’s hard to know who the biggest crooks are, people who rob banks, or the people who run the banks. Fredrik Backman
Lord, we expect good things from you because you are good and you promise to give to those who ask. Teach us to know not only how to ask but also for what we should ask. May all our asking, seeking, and knocking be to further your kingdom in some way, no matter how small or mundane. Amen. (Commonprayer.net)
Memory Verse; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Romans 3:23
Matthew 26, Psalms 144
Because when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, I took it personal. Everyone I knew was on fire to join up, including me. There were two men in my hometown declared 4-F unfit, they killed themselves cause they couldn't serve. Why, I had a job in a defense plant and I could've taken a deferment, but that ain't right. It isn't right that other men should fight and die, that I would just be sitting at home safe. I need to serve, I've got the energy and the passion to serve as a medic, right in the middle with the other guys, no less danger, just... while everybody else taking life, I'm going to be saving it. With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it doesn't seem like such a bad thing to me to wanna put a little bit of it back together. Desmond Doss Hacksaw Ridge
Dear Lord, thank You for the dedicated men and women who serve in our armed forces. We pause in remembrance of those who have gone before them, often serving in harm’s way to protect the liberties we enjoy today. (Guideposts)
Memory Verse; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Romans 3:23
Matthew 25, Psalms 143
“We're just strangers passing each other, your anxieties briefly brushing against mine as the fibers of our coats touch momentarily on a crowded sidewalk somewhere. We never really know what to do to each other, with each other, for each other.” Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
Help us, Lord, to do the one thing that is necessary: to tend to the poor, to walk alongside the poor, to find you among the poor, to declare ourselves poor as long as anyone suffers need. May we begin this journey with just one person today. Amen. (Commonprayer.net)
