Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]? (Matthew 6:27 NIV) This is a significant line of scripture. Worry and anxiety can eat into our lives and eat away at any joy we might feel. Yet, we cannot add even a single hour to our lives by allowing it. … Read more
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. (Philippians 2:3-4 NIV) Having ambition is not a bad thing, unless all that we do is done out of this ambition. … Read more
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, (Colossians 3:23 NIV) Everyone has a bad day at work. We all run into situations where we are overloaded, asked to do more with less, sucked into a political situation not of our making, or simply … Read more
28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. (Isaiah 40:28-29 NIV) We … Read more
Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. (Romans 6:!3 NIV) Consider the parts of your body that can be … Read more