Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

Day of Year:324 Date: 11.22.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 14.7-15 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 13.18,19 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 25 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 25.14-17 +Rest of Old Testament:  Ezekiel 27,28

Day of Year:323 Date: 11.19.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 14.1-6 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 13.15-17 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 24 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 25.11-13 +Rest of Old Testament:  Ezekiel 25,26

Day of Year:322 Date: 11.18.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 13.31-38 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 13.9-14 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 23 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 25.6-10 +Rest of Old Testament:  Ezekiel 23,24

Day of Year:321 Date: 11.17.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 13.21-30 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 13.1-8 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 22 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 25.3-5 +Rest of Old Testament:  Ezekiel 21,22

Early this morning, 11.16.14,  it was announced that a man had been beheaded.  It made me very sad for his family.  They had begged for his life to be spared since he converted to the Muslim religion.  ISIS/ISIL didn't care what his religion was if it was not their own brand of the Muslim religion. Jesus came into this kind of world. I was reading Luke 3 this morning. This verse jumped out. 19  But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the other evil things he had done, 20  Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison. Later John was beheaded because of His commitment to God's ways.  Jesus was on the cross experiencing a cruel death and said, " Father forgive them. "  "It is finished."  The heart of Jesus is for all humans to come to know God's grace. Grace transforms us into givers to meet the needs of the poor.  Someone with two coats can give one...

Day of Year:320 Date: 11.16.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 13.12-20 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 12.25-29 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 21 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 25.1,2 +Rest of Old Testament:  Ezekiel 19,20

Day of Year:319 Date: 11.14.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 13.5-11 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 12.18-24 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm20 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 24.30-34 +Rest of Old Testament:  Ezekiel 17,18

Day of Year:318 Date: 11.13.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 13.1-4 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 12.14-7 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 19 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 24.26-29 +Rest of Old Testament:  Ezekiel 15,16

Day of Year:317 Date: 11.12.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 12.27-50 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 12.1-13 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 18 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 24.13-25 +Rest of Old Testament:  Ezekiel 13,14

Day of Year:316 Date: 11.11.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 12.20-26 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 11.17-32-40 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 17 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 24.19-22 +Rest of Old Testament:  Ezekiel11,12

Day of Year:314 Date: 11.10.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 12.1-11 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 11.13-16 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 15 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 24.15-16 +Rest of Old Testament:  Ezekiel 7,8

Edmund Burke, 1729-1797,  was a great orator, author and leader of Great Britain during the time of the Revolutionary War.  His statement written 1.9.1795, in a letter to William Smith is well known: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Thousands prayed and others did all they could to work for their release.  We are so thankful for the good news of Jeffrey Fowle, Matthew Miller and Kenneth Bae's release from a prison in North Korea.   Fowle was accused of leaving a Bible there.  I am reminded of other true words of Edmund Burke, "The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind.  The rest is vanity; the rest is crime."  Letters on a Regicide Peace "What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?  It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madnes...

Day of Year:313 Date: 11.9.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 11.54-57 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 11.1-12 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 14 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 24.13-14 +Rest of Old Testament:  Ezekiel 5,6

Day of Year:312 Date: 11.8.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 11.47-53 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 10.26-39 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 13 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 24.11-12 +Rest of Old Testament:  Ezekiel 3,4

Day of Year:311 Date: 11.7.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 11.1-46 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews10.19-25 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 12 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 24.8-10 +Rest of Old Testament:  Ezekiel 1,2

Day of Year:310 Date: 11.6.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 10.22-42 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews10.1-18 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 11 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 24.5-7 +Rest of Old Testament:  Lamentations 4,5

Day of Year:309 Date: 11.5.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 10.19-21 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 9.23-28 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 10 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 24.1-4 +Rest of Old Testament:  Lamentations 2,3

Day of Year:308 Date: 11.4.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 10.1-18 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 9.11-22 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 9 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 23.29-35 +Rest of Old Testament: Jeremiah 52, Lamentations 1

Day of Year:307 Date: 11.3.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 9.35-51 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 8.7-13 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 9 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 23.29-35 +Rest of Old Testament: Jeremiah 52, Lamentations 1

Day of Year:306 Date: 11.2.14 Favorite Verse: Thought for the day: Jesus Reading (Ten Minutes): John 9.13-34 + Rest of New Testament: Hebrews 8.7-13 +Psalm of the Day: Psalm 8 +Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 23.26-28 +Rest of Old Testament: Jeremiah 50,51