“I will maintain my innocence without wavering. My conscience is clear for as long as I live.” —Job 27:6 NLT If your relationship with Christ is strong, it will be evident in the way you live. Your life will be marked…
“I tell you the truth, wherever the Good News is preached throughout the world, this woman’s deed will be remembered and discussed.” —Matthew 26:13 NLT First Thessalonians 5:11 says, “So encourage each other and build…
“Then Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the people selling animals for sacrifices. He said to them, ‘The Scriptures declare, “My Temple will be a house of prayer,” but you have turned it into a den of…
“Dear friends, if we don’t feel guilty, we can come to God with bold confidence. And we will receive from him whatever we ask because we obey him and do the things that please him.” —1 John 3:21–22 NLT God answers every…
“Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it. They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own…
“Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely,…
“And because of what Christ did, all you others too, who heard the Good News about how to be saved, and trusted Christ, were marked as belonging to Christ by the Holy Spirit, who long ago had been promised to all of us…
“Jesus told him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.’” —John 14:6 NLT You’ve probably heard more than a few objections to the inevitable answer to this question. “How…
“You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea.” —Exodus 20:4 NLT The second commandment must have resonated powerfully with the Israelites…
“God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble ” —Psalm 46:1 NLT When I was a kid, I attended Southern California Military Academy in Long Beach. We would have mandatory chapel every Sunday.…