Soul Care New Every Morning from The Global Church of the Nazarene's Clergy Development Office of Lenexa, Kansas, United States "[On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great your faithfulness!" [Lamentations 3:23] for Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Good Morning, Ministry Partner:
Be Encouraged by God's Word:
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.[1 John 2:1-2, NRSV]
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:
Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.[John Wesley]
Pray Together with Us:
I am heartily sorry, and beg pardon for my sins, especially for my little respect, and for wandering in my thoughts when in your presence, and for my continual infidelities to your graces; for all which I beg pardon, by the merits of the Blood you shed for them.[Lady Lucy Herbert]
Friday, 10 April 2015
Good Morning, Ministry Partner:
Be Encouraged by God's Word:
At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people-everyone whose name is found written in the book-will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.[Daniel 12:1-3, NIV]
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:
The point of the resurrection...is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die...What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it...What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God's future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether (as the hymn so mistakenly puts it...). They are part of what we may call building for God's kingdom.[N. T. Wright]
Pray Together with Us:
Good Morning, Ministry Partner:
Be Encouraged by God's Word:
At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people-everyone whose name is found written in the book-will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.[Daniel 12:1-3, NIV]
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:
The point of the resurrection...is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die...What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it...What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God's future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether (as the hymn so mistakenly puts it...). They are part of what we may call building for God's kingdom.[N. T. Wright]
Pray Together with Us:
Teach me to live that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed;
Teach me to die that so I may
Rise glorious at that awesome day.[Thomas Ken]
The grave as little as my bed;
Teach me to die that so I may
Rise glorious at that awesome day.[Thomas Ken]
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