Soul Care New Every Morning for Monday, 14 March 2016 of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States "
[On the contrary,] they are new every morning!
How great your faithfulness!
" Lamentations 3:23
Good Morning, Ministry Partner:
Be Encouraged by God's Word:
Jesus sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, "Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all." Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms he said to them, "Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me."[Mark 9:35-37, NRSV]
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:
A great person is always willing to be little.[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Pray Together with Us
Praise God who sends us the light of heaven.[Indian Prayer]
---------------------Soul Care New Every Morning for Friday, 11 March 2016 of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States "
Praise God who sends us the light of heaven.[Indian Prayer]
---------------------Soul Care New Every Morning for Friday, 11 March 2016 of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States "
[On the contrary,] they are new every morning!
How great your faithfulness!
" Lamentations 3:23
Good Morning, Ministry Partner:
Be Encouraged by God's Word:
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.
If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.[
1 Corinthians 13:1-3, NRSV]
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:
There is no goodness that is not bodily and realistic and local.[
Rowan Williams]
Pray Together with Us:
O God, the well of love and Father of all, make us so to love that we know not but to love every man in Jesus Christ your Son our Lord.
[14th Century Collect]
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Soul Care New Every Morning for Thursday, 10 March 2016 of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States "
[On the contrary,] they are new every morning!
How great your faithfulness!
" Lamentations 3:23
Good Morning, Ministry Partner:
Be Encouraged by God's Word
God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.[
1 Corinthians 12:24-26, NRSV]
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.[
Mother Teresa]
Pray Together with Us:
Grant, most gracious God, that we may love and seek you always and everywhere, above all things and for your sake, in the life present and at length find you and for ever hold you fast in the life to come. Grant this for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.[
Thomas Bradwardine]
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Soul Care New Every Morning for Wednesday, 9 March 2016 of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States "
[On the contrary,] they are new every morning!
How great your faithfulness!
" Lamentations 3:23
Good Morning, Ministry Partner:
Be Encouraged by God's Word:
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.[
1 Corinthians 12:12-13, NRSV]
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:
With Christ as your partner, there is no such thing as failure, only results.[
Toni Sorenson]
Pray Together with Us:
Fill us, we pray, with your light and life that we may show forth your wondrous glory. Grant that your love may so fill our lives that we may count nothing too small to do for you, nothing too much to give and nothing too hard to bear.[
Ignatius Loyola]
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Soul Care New Every Morning for Tuesday, 8 March 2016 of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States "
[On the contrary,] they are new every morning!
How great your faithfulness!
" Lamentations 3:23
Good Morning, Ministry Partner:
Be Encouraged by God's Word:
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.[
1 Corinthians 12:4-5, NRSV]
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.[
G. K. Chesterton]
Pray Together with Us:
My dearest Lord,
be thou a bright flame before me,
be thou a guiding star above me,
be thou a smooth path beneath me,
be thou a kindly shepherd behind me,
today and for evermore.[
Columba]
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Soul Care New Every Morning for Monday, 7 March 2016 of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States "
[On the contrary,] they are new every morning!
How great your faithfulness!
" Lamentations 3:23
Good Morning, Ministry Partner:
Be Encouraged by God's Word:
So, my very dear friends, when you see people reducing God to something they can use or control, get out of their company as fast as you can.[
1 Corinthians 10:14, MSG]
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.[
J. R. R. Tolkien]
Pray Together with Us:
Grant unto us your servants
To our God—a heart a flame
To our fellow men—a heart of love
To ourselves—a heart of steel.[
Augustine]
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Soul Care New Every Morning for Friday, 4 March 2016 of The Global Church of the Nazarene's Office of Clergy Development of Lenexa, Kansas, United States "
[On the contrary,] they are new every morning!
How great your faithfulness!
" Lamentations 3:23
Good Morning, Ministry Partner:
Be Encouraged by God's Word:
When evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land. When he saw that they were straining at the oars against an adverse wind, he came towards them early in the morning, walking on the sea. He intended to pass them by. But when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and cried out; for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, "Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid." Then he got into the boat with them and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded, for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.[Mark 6:47-52, NRSV:
Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims:
The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped - it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.[Philip Yancey]
Pray Together with Us:
God of your goodness, give me yourself,
for you are sufficient for me . . .
If I were to ask anything less
I should always be in want,
for in you alone do I have all.[Julian of Norwich]
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