Lenexa, Kansas, United States - Soul Care "New Every Morning" for Monday, 8 September 2014 "God’s loyal love couldn’t have run out,his merciful love couldn’t have dried up.
They’re created new every morning.
How great your faithfulness!
I’m sticking with God (I say it over and over).
He’s all I’ve got left."(Lamentations 3:22-24)
Be Encouraged By God's Word:
When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. . . Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him." Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day." Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.(John 11:17, 21-26, NRSV)
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:
You see, the bodily resurrection of Jesus isn't a take-it-or-leave-it thing, as though some Christians are welcome to believe it and others are welcome not to believe it. Take it away, and the whole picture is totally different. Take it away, and Karl Marx was probably right to accuse Christianity of ignoring the problems of the material world. Take it away, and Sigmund Freud was probably right to say that Christianity is a wish-fulfillment religion. Take it away, and Friedrich Nietzsche was probably right to say that Christianity was a religion for wimps. Put it back, and you have a faith that can take on the postmodern world that looks to Marx, Freud and Nietzsche as its prophets, and you can beat them at their own game with the Easter news that the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.(N. T. Wright)
Pray Together with Us:
O Father, my hope
O Son, my refuge
O Holy Spirit, my protection,
Holy Trinity, glory to thee.(St. Joannikios)
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