Tag: Faith
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GNB 2.18
January 20, 2023 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “Or do you not know that your body is the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who resides within you. You have received it from God. You are, therefore, not your own.” (1 Corinthians 6.19) TODAY’S REFLECTION: Can’t we just allow this truth to be a benchmark for measuring how…
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GNB 2.8
January 9, 2023 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “For I desire loyalty rather than sacrifice as well as the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.” (Hosea 6.6) “Now go and learn what this means: I desire compassion rather than sacrifice. I came to call the sinners [into God’s presence] and not the righteous.” (Matthew 9.13) TODAY’S…
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GNB 2.5
January 5, 2023 (The Eleventh Day toward Epiphany) TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “…and a little Child shall lead them.” (Isaiah 11.6d) “After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, Magi came to Jerusalem from the east. They asked those in the seats of governance, ‘Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews?…
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GNB 2.3
January 3, 2023 (The Ninth Day toward Epiphany) TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “Moved by the Holy Spirit, Simeon was led into the Temple courts to see what the Spirit had revealed to him. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do what the Law of God required, Simeon took him into his arms and…
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GNB 1.179
December 21, 2022 (The fourth day of the fourth week of Advent 2022) TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home..” (Luke.1.56) TODAY’S REFLECTION: It’s simply math, simply biology and simply love . Math: Mary (who believed what Gabriel told her was going to happen) arrives when Elizabeth…
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GNB 1.178
December 20, 2022 (The third day of the fourth week of Advent 2022) TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty. He has helped His servant Israel remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as He promised.” (Luke.1.53-55) TODAY’S REFLECTION: It…
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GNB 170
December 11, 2022 (The first day of the third week of Advent 2022) TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “In those days John the Baptizer came preaching in the wilderness of Judea saying ‘Repent, the kingdom of heaven has come near.’ He is the one who was foretold by the prophecy given to Isaiah saying ‘A voice of…
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GNB 168
December 8, 2022 (The fifth day of the second week of Advent 2022) TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure that has been buried in a field for safekeeping. After a time, when a man found it, he hid it again and in his joy went, sold all that he possessed and…
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GNB 166
December 6, 2022 (The third day of the second week of Advent 2022) TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “While I, Daniel, sought the meaning of the vision I had seen, one who looked like a man stood before me, and on the Ulai I heard a human voice that cried out, ‘Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.’…
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GNB 165
December 5, 2022 (The second day of the second week of Advent 2022) TODAY’S SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3.5-6) TODAY’S REFLECTION: The God who dwells within us makes…