James 2:14-26 (Faith Without Works is Dead)14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him?15 If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way faith, if...  Read More

Luke 15:11-24 (The Parable of the Prodigal Son)11 He also said, “A man had two sons. 12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.’ So he distributed the assets to them. 13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living. 14 After he had s...  Read More

Acts 2:1-21When the day of Pentecost had arrived, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like that of a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were staying. 3 They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and rested on each one of them. 4 Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Sp...  Read More

Romans 8:28-3928 We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he als...  Read More

Psalm 42:1-11As a deer longs for flowing streams, so I long for you, God. 2 I thirst for God, the living God.When can I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night,while all day long people say to me, “Where is your God?” 4 I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God,with joyful and thankful shouts. 5...  Read More

Jeremiah 29:11-1411 For I know the plans I have for you” this is the Lord’s declaration “plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you” this is the Lord’s declaration “and I will restore your ...  Read More

Psalm 16:1-11Protect me, God, for I take refuge in you. 2 I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have nothing good besides you.” 3 As for the holy people who are in the land, they are the noble ones. All my delight is in them. 4 The sorrows of those who take another godfor themselves will multiply; I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,and I will not speak their names with my lips. 5...  Read More

Luke 14:25-3325 Now great crowds were traveling with him. So he turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters yes, and even his own life he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 “For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t first sit d...  Read More

Romans 8:1-118 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus,2 because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do since it was weakened by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering, 4 in order that the law’s requirem...  Read More

Philippians 2:5-115 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus, 6 who, existing in the form of God,did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited. 7 Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity.And when he had come as a man, 8 he humbled himself by becoming obedientto the point of death—even to death on a cross. 9 For this r...  Read More

2 Corinthians 5:17-2117 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! 18 Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 19 That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message o...  Read More

Psalm 34:17-2217 The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and rescues them from all their troubles.18 The Lord is near the brokenhearted; he saves those crushed in spirit. 19 One who is righteous has many adversities, but the Lord rescues him from them all. 20 He protects all his bones; not one of them is broken. 21 Evil brings death to the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be punish...  Read More