Hebrews 12: (MSG)1  Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins.2  Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re…

Hebrews 12: (MSG)1  Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins.2  Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re…

Hebrews 12: (MSG)1  Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins.2  Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re…

….I found this in a booklet full of Christmas sayings and traditions.   What can I give him, Poor as I am? If I were a sheperd I would bring a lamb; I would do my part; Yet what I can give him, Give my heart. Christina Rossetti “Thoughts of Christmas” Compiled by Eleanora Abercrombie…

Proverbs 3: (MSG)6  Listen for GOD’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track. Life was much simpler growing up for me.  There wasn’t many distractions like there are in this twenty first century.  Maybe, just maybe, my parents and grandparents thought life was complicated.  Yet…

Proverbs 1: (MSG)1  These are the wise sayings of Solomon, David’s son, Israel’s king—2  Written down so we’ll know how to live well and right, to understand what life means and where it’s going;3  A manual for living, for learning what’s right and just and fair;4  To teach the inexperienced the ropes and give our…

Job 1:  (MSG)1  Job was a man who lived in Uz. He was honest inside and out, a man of his word, who was totally devoted to God and hated evil with a passion.2  He had seven sons and three daughters.3  He was also very wealthy—seven thousand head of sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred…

Originally posted on Broken Believers: I have cried many tears in my life. If you have never cried, you can stop reading right now. But if you have shed tears for yourself or for others, or if like me you have shed some without even knowing why or where they came from, take heart. God…

Luke 14:28 (MSG)28  “Is there anyone here who, planning to build a new house, doesn’t first sit down and figure the cost so you’ll know if you can complete it? Jude 1:3 (MSG)3  Dear friends, I’ve dropped everything to write you about this life of salvation that we have in common. I have to write…

2 Corinthians 1: MSG20  Whatever God has promised gets stamped with the Yes of Jesus. In him, this is what we preach and pray, the great Amen, God’s Yes and our Yes together, gloriously evident.21  God affirms us, making us a sure thing in Christ, putting his Yes within us.22  By his Spirit he has…

  Psalms 1:1-6 MSG1  How well God must like you— you don’t hang out at Sin Saloon, you don’t slink along Dead-End Road, you don’t go to Smart-Mouth College.2  Instead you thrill to GOD’s Word, you chew on Scripture day and night.3  You’re a tree replanted in Eden, bearing fresh fruit every month, Never dropping…