Tag: Discipleship
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GNB 169
December 9, 2022 (The sixth day of the second week of Advent 2022) TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “A voice of one calling out ‘You, in the wilderness, prepare the way for the Lord and make straight a highway for our God. Let every valley be lifted up and every hill and mountain be made low. Let…
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GNB 157
November 25, 2022 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “This is what the Lord says to me with His strong hand upon me as a warning to not follow the way of this people. ‘Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand: Immanuel, God is amidst us.‘” (Isaiah 8.11, 10)…
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GNB 145
November 3, 2022 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “Seeing a fig tree along the road, Jesus went up to it and found nothing but leaves and no fruit. He said to the tree, ‘May you never bear fruit again!’ Immediately the tree withered and died.” When the disciples saw this, they remarked, ‘How did this tree die…
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GNB 143
November 1, 2022 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Then he said to the tree, ‘May no one ever eat fruit from you again.’ And…
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GNB 137
October 25, 2022 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “He [God] said He would have destroyed them, if Moses, His chosen one, had not stood in the gap before Him to turn away His wrath.” (Psalm 106.23) “God says, ‘I searched for someone who would build up a wall and stand in the gap before Me for the…
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GNB 136
October 24, 2022 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “The crafty and alluring serpent said to Eve, ‘God didn’t really say you must not eat from any tree in the garden, right?” (Genesis 3.1)) TODAY’S REFLECTION: This is the way Satan the Accuser, the cast out from heaven and fallen Lucifer, works in the world (the community of…
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GNB 135
October 23, 2022 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. I was delivered from the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely…
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GNB 128
October 14, 2022 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “All of Scripture is God-breathed and therefore useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness for the purpose of thoroughly equipping the servant of God for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3.16-17) “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to…
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GNB 124
October 10, 2022 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “But, mark this: there will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without authentic love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of what is good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of…
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GNB 121
October 6, 2022 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor’s crown except by competing according to the rules. Reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this.” (2 Timothy 2.5,7) TODAY’S REFLECTION: I would title this reflection: Rules of Engagement.…