Mar 29 2026
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Speak Up and Tell Everyone

By Sodwana Bay

If with heart and soul you’re doing good, do you think you can be stopped? Even if you suffer for it, you’re still better off. Don’t give the opposition a second thought. Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you’re living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy. Keep a clear conscience before God so that when people throw mud at you, none of it will stick. They’ll end up realizing that they’re the ones who need a bath. It’s better to suffer for doing good, if that’s what God wants, than to be punished for doing bad. That’s what Christ did definitively: suffered because of others’ sins, the Righteous One for the unrighteous ones. He went through it all—was put to death and then made alive—to bring us to God. 1 Peter 3:15 MSG Originally posted 2015-10-16 08:47:08.

Mar 28 2026
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Be observant through the Body of Christ

By Sodwana Bay

So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective. Colossians 3:1-2 MSG Originally posted 2015-10-16 08:45:01.

Mar 27 2026
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Observe God’s Love and portray it in your own life

By Sodwana Bay

Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that. Ephesians 5:1-2 MSG Originally posted 2015-10-16 08:42:22.

Mar 23 2026
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What is the Gospel?

By Sodwana Bay

WHAT IS THE GOSPEL? “…that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4) Can you describe the Gospel in one sentence? Sometimes we complicate it. We talk about who God is. We include what Jesus did and what is required of us. We may even throw in a bit about what the Gospel is not. The essence of the good news can get lost in lengthy explanations. It may be diluted by denominational dogma, and cluttered by complex theology. According to the apostle Paul, the Gospel is gloriously simple: Jesus Christ died for our sins, He was buried, and He rose from the dead, as said by the prophecies made long before His birth. That’s it. That’s the Gospel! Of course, we can offer profound explanations about how Jesus died for our sins because He is God and had no sin of His own; that His resurrection proved His victory over sin, death, and the devil. The entire Bible is the unveiling of this magnificent rescue plan. But when we share the good news of Jesus with children, keep it simple. That’s what God did for us. He took the profound and made it as simple as a baby born in a stable, lying in a manger. Source: Anchor Devotional – What is the Gospel? Originally posted 2015-10-13 12:14:14.

Mar 21 2026
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Gods Plan…

By Sodwana Bay

It’s news I’m most proud to proclaim, this extraordinary Message of God’s powerful plan to rescue everyone who trusts him, starting with Jews and then right on to everyone else! God’s way of putting people right shows up in the acts of faith, confirming what Scripture has said all along: “The person in right standing before God by trusting him really lives.” Romans 1:17 MSG Originally posted 2015-10-13 05:52:30.

Mar 20 2026
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God is love.

By Sodwana Bay

God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love. 1 John 4:18 MSG Originally posted 2015-10-09 05:00:29.