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15Aug2010 Joshua 4:6

6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ There are many teachable moments in the life of a child. But so many parents miss these moments. As the Lord is instructing Joshua about their upcoming crossing of the Jordan into the PromisedContinue reading “15Aug2010 Joshua 4:6”

14Aug2010 Ephesians 5:28

28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. In this familiar passage about marriage relationships, Paul tells the husbands two times that they are to love their wives. The first time he does he follows it with the illustration of ChristContinue reading “14Aug2010 Ephesians 5:28”

13Aug2010 Ephesians 5:20

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. So often we hear one side of the submission story in marriage. Wives are supposed to submit to their husbands. But right before that truth is this truth: we both submit to each other. If only couples would understand this today. There has to beContinue reading “13Aug2010 Ephesians 5:20”

12Aug2010 Ephesians 4:14-15

14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who isContinue reading “12Aug2010 Ephesians 4:14-15”

11Aug2010 Ephesians 3:19

19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Filled! Are you filled with God’s love to the measure of all the fullness of God? I know I’m not! God wants us to be overflowing with His love, pressed down, shaken together,Continue reading “11Aug2010 Ephesians 3:19”

10Aug2010 Ephesians 3:18

18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, Paul’s prayer is, not only that we would be rooted and established in love, but that we would know the boundless, borderless love of Christ. But we can’t grasp this onContinue reading “10Aug2010 Ephesians 3:18”

9Aug2010 Ephesians 3:17b

17bAnd I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, As I talk with people day after day, I have come to realize how few people have ever experienced true love and acceptance. For so many, love, if they have received it at all, has been very conditional. They were shown love, IF theyContinue reading “9Aug2010 Ephesians 3:17b”

8Aug2010 Ephesians 3:16-17a

16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. In order for God to inhabit us, we must be strengthened. Plastic bags from grocery stores are great. They have so manyContinue reading “8Aug2010 Ephesians 3:16-17a”

7Aug2010 Joshua 2:11

11 When we heard of it, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below. This is really amazing. Rahab was a prostitute, not the highest level of society back then. We don’t know how she became one, orContinue reading “7Aug2010 Joshua 2:11”

6Aug2010 Ephesians 3:7

7 I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power. Read that verse again, slowly this time. Paul is reflecting on his salvation history. He recognized it as a gift given to him by the Lord. No one don’t deserve gifts. And whatContinue reading “6Aug2010 Ephesians 3:7”