Lent Day 17 Second Friday In Lent – Devotional Guide
PRAYER AND: “to be effective pray-ers, we need to be effective lovers…real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love”
Continue reading →PRAYER AND: “to be effective pray-ers, we need to be effective lovers…real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love”
Continue reading →Father John gives some insight into a passage from Paul’s letter to the Colossians (3:1-17) and how his advice to the Christians in Colossae is good advice for us as well.
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Text: Romans 4:13-25
“For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.”
Lenten Daily Reading – Day 15
Text: Luke 12:22-34
“Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.”
THE TENSION THAT MOLDS US: “Lord God, thank you for your never giving up on us. And even when it creates a tension between us Lord, step in and make a way for us to be united once again.”
Continue reading →Today in Father John’s series on Lent, he shares a passage from Epheasians (5:6-20). In it Paul encourages us to not be distracted or led away from the light of God that comes through Christ.
Continue reading →Lenten Daily Reading – Day 14
Text: Isaiah 51:1-16
“Listen to me, my people,and give heed to me, my nation, for a teaching will go out from me and my justice for a light to the peoples.”
THE ILLUSION OF FREEDOM: “…with freedom comes responsibility. As human beings our responsibility may be to live and let live; but as Christians, our responsibility is to love our fellow brothers and sisters.”
Continue reading →Lenten Daily Reading – Day 13
Text: Ruth 1:15-17
Do not press me to leave you, to turn back from following you!…
your people shall be my people and your God my God.”
BLESSED ARE…: ” We have been in this Lenten study for almost 2 weeks. Perhaps you are taking the call to repentance seriously and you wonder when you will turn the corner and feel forgiven.”
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