Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified. Acts 2:36 WEB With these words, Peter preaches in Jerusalem that Jesus is both Lord and Christ. Having witnessed Christ after his crucifixion, Peter shares the gospel...
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 WEB Children are a great responsibility and a gift from God. As we read in Psalm 127:3, “Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. NIV” When the Lord entrusts us with...
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times 1 Timothy 2:5-6 WEB The first letter to Timothy is one of three pastoral epistles written by Paul in the biblical canon. In the second chapter of...
Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He opened his mouth and taught them, saying, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Matthew 5:1-3 WEB In the previous chapter, Matthew described Jesus’ forty days of...
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. Colossians 2:9-10 NIV These verses are a potion of Paul’s message of spiritual fullness in Christ. In verse nine Paul emphasizes Jesus as...
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love Ephesians 1:3-4 WEB Paul begins his...
But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit Titus 3:4-5 WEB The apostle Paul is historically credited...
One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?” Luke 12:13-14 WEB These verses from Luke’s gospel precede Jesus’ parable of the rich fool. In the parable, Jesus addresses the...
If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but...
Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the (empty) tomb. John 20:1 WEB On the Sunday following the Friday of Jesus’ death on the cross, John’s gospel account describes Jesus’ followers finding the empty...
Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession. Hebrews 4:14 WEB Under the law of Moses practiced by faithful Jews, the high priest intercedes between man and God. In the Christian faith, we have Jesus as intercessor...
It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. Joel 2:28 WEB The prophet Joel is known as one of the twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament. In chapter two...
