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 Source: South African LINKEveryone ~ Romans 1:17 MSG
That precious memory triggers another: your honest faith—and what a rich faith it is, handed down from your grandmother Lois to your mother Eunice, and now to you! And the special gift of ministry you received when I laid hands on you and prayed—keep that ablaze! God doesn’t want us to be shy with his gifts, but bold and loving and sensible. 2 Timothy 1:7 MSG Source: South African LINKKeep that ablaze! ~ 2 Timothy 1:7 MSG
Becoming Fast & Light How can we who died to sin still live in it?—Romans 6:2 Imagine being fast and light when moving through this life. Imagine being free from things that weigh you down, hold you back. Imagine being free to roam, free to rest. Imagine being free from sin and shame and striving and worry and self-doubt. Imagine being free to love, free to slow down, free to go wherever God calls you to go and to do whatever God calls you to do. Brother, that’s the kind of life our King, Jesus Christ, has made available—and to Source: South African LINKBecoming Fast & Light ~ Romans 6:2
With that, Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, let loose: “Rulers and leaders of the people, if we have been brought to trial today for helping a sick man, put under investigation regarding this healing, I’ll be completely frank with you—we have nothing to hide. By the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the One you killed on a cross, the One God raised from the dead, by means of his name this man stands before you healthy and whole. Jesus is ‘the stone you masons threw out, which is now the cornerstone.’ Salvation comes no other way; no other Source: South African LINKThe stone you masons threw out ~ Acts 4:12 MSG
God Speaks . . . to You I am the good shepherd . . . My sheep hear My voice—John 10:11, 27 God’s had direct, personal, reciprocally communicative relationships with a lot of men . . . Abraham, Moses, Gideon, David, Paul. What about you and me, though? Many of us men—to the extent we think about it at all—assume those guys were special, different from us. And so, we decide God probably wants with us a different type of relationship—more indirect, impersonal, and non-reciprocal—go to church, read the Bible a bit, get on with our lives. That would mean, Source: South African LINKGod speaks to you… ~ John 10:11, 27
What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every GOD -direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward him Makes it. Psalm 18:30 MSG Source: South African LINKWhat a God! ~ Psalm 18:30 MSG
