Read the Bible in a Year - Week 3

I'm already behind on my reading. Unfortunately, that's what happens with New Year's Resolutions.  So, I'm just going to not worry about it, start where I left off, and keep reading. After I get through Matthew, I want to go back and post a short synopsis of the Gospel for other people, who, like me, used to read through the bible but not really comprehend how it all flowed together.

Keep on, keeping on! You can do this!

Week 3
Sunday, January 15 - Read Mark 3:1-4:41
Monday, January 16           Mark 5:1-6:44
Tuesday, January 17           Mark 6:45-8:38
Wednesday, January 18      Mark 9:1-10:34
Thursday, January 19         Mark 10:35-12:34
Friday, January 20              Mark 12:35-14:42
Saturday, January 21          Mark 14:43-16:8

Daily Bible Verse 1 John 4:7-11

This theme of bible verses this week, last week, and for the next couple of weeks is: the love of the Triune (God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit).

These verses, I feel, show us God's eternal love for us.

1 John 4:7-11 (NKJV)

Knowing God Through Love

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Christian Truth

Daily Humor and Truth

I will trust in You

Lauren Daigle singing "Trust In You"

I absolutely love this song. It's an amazing reminder to trust in God and know that He has a plan for you and your life. In order to fulfill that plan, things need to be done in His time, not in ours. I've highlighted the chorus below because these words are often on my mind whenever I feel myself getting impatient.

Letting go of every single dream
I lay each one down at your feet
Every moment of my wandering
Never changes what you see
I try to win this war
I confess, my hands are weary, I need your rest
Mighty warrior, king of the fight
No matter what I face you're by my side

When you don't move the mountains
I'm needing you to move
When you don't part the waters
I wish I could walk through
When you don't give the answers
As I cry out to you
I will trust, I will trust, I will trust in you

Truth is you know what tomorrow brings
There's not a day ahead you have not seen
So let all things be my life and breath
I want what you want Lord and nothing less
When you don't move the mountains
I'm needing you to move
When you don't part the waters
I wish I could walk through
When you…
                                    by Lauren Daigle

Daily Bible Verse John 3:16-17

This week's theme is a continuation of last week: The love of the Triune (God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit).

Another thing we did in Sunday School when I was a child, was memorize bible verses. The one that I remember the most, and I believe is still one of my absolute favorites is John 3:16 (KJV)

For God so loved the world

that He gave His only begotten Son,

that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,

but have everlasting life.

John 3:17 goes on to say:

For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world;

but that the world through Him 

might be saved.

emphasis added is mine

Why Christianity? Part 2

Why Christianity?
#2 Because we can see Jesus working in our daily lives.
Samaritan's Purse, Operation Christmas Child, is a charity that our church supports. Every year the congregation donates items for the boxes: pens, pencils, crayons, paper, glue, small toys, toothbrushes and toothpaste, soap, socks, etc. Then, in November, the children of the church pack all of the items into individual boxes that are then sent off to children somewhere in the world; we don't know where our specific boxes go until sometime in December. One year, they were sent to Madagascar, which I thought was really neat. We receive many wonderful letters from children who have received the boxes telling us of their joy and the impact this has had on their lives.
I hope you'll enjoy this video. One of my favorite lines from this is that these boxes allow the children "to experience God in tangible ways."

Please check out Samaritan's Purse, Operation Christmas Child, and consider making a donation.