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Our Question of the Week: What is your favorite Bible verse and why (from Colleen). I like Isaiah 30:15. Someone gave me a plaque with part of the verse--"In quietness and confidence shall be your strength". Here is the whole verse, per the New American Bible:
For thus said the Lord GOD,the Holy One of Israel:By waiting and by calm you shall be saved,in quiet and in trust shall be your strength. But this you did not willI guess I'm not an "In your face" kind of person, and this verse reminds me I am strong in my own way, the way God made me.
This week I reviewed a book about the Mass, a romance and a series of children's books about various countries.
RAnn: Thank you for hosting. One of my favorite verses is Judges 21:25 "In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes." Our failure and sinfulness comes from doing what we take as right in our eyes and not in the eyes of our King, our Messiah, Christ Jesus. To Love and Truth/Michael
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting, RAnn!
ReplyDeleteI can't really pick out one Bible verse as my favorite; there are
so many that I love.
I'm keeping you, your dad, and your family in my prayers.
Thanks as ever for hosting, RAnn! "For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, 'Abba! Father!' it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him" (Rom 8:15-17). There are two things I like about this passage: 1) "Abba" is actually closer in sense to "Papa"; the love we have for God is full of the same primal affection and trust as a child for his daddy. 2) The passage reminds us that discipleship is no lazy waltz amidst the flowers; if at some point you're not at least uncomfortable or inconvenienced, you're probably doing it wrong.
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