Click for PDF version Monday Read Galatians 6:2 “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” (Galatians 6:2) Paul has been talking about life in the Spirit. He continues to talk about the true law of the Spirit, which is the law of Christ....
Click for PDF version Monday Read Romans 5:12-21 God’s surprising but wonderful choice How does our interdependence with God and others help us with loneliness? First of all, someone might say that God is too big to be dependent on anyone else. He is complete in Himself and doesn’t need anyone or...
Click for PDF version Monday Read Genesis 1:26-28 Created for Community Our God is triune, three in one—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—existing in perfect unity and fellowship. This divine fellowship within the Trinity serves as the ultimate model for community. When God created humanity, we were created in God’s own image, reflecting...
Click for a PDF version Monday Read Genesis 1:26-27; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 “Let Us make [humankind] in our image, after Our likeness” (Genesis 1:26, emphasis added). God Himself is relational; He created us for community. God’s own triunity reveals community: the communion of Father, Word of God, and Holy Spirit...
Click for a PDF version Holy Monday Read Matthew 21:18-22 People praising Jesus with singing and tree branches on the road was over, and what a day it had been. This was indeed the Son of David entering the most Holy of cities, Jerusalem. It seemed it could not have been better—but...
Click for a PDF version Monday Read John 13:1-17 On December 9, 1917, General Sir Edmund Allenby, commander of British forces—after capturing the city of Jerusalem during World War I—rode his horse to the Jaffa Gate to enter Jerusalem to accept the surrender of the city from the Ottoman mayor of the...
Click for PDF version Monday Read Genesis 3:1-19; Romans 5:12; 8:19-23 Skeptics’ leading criticisms of Christian beliefs include the challenge, “If God is good, loving, all-powerful and sovereign, why is there so much evil and suffering in the world?” Interestingly, this is a great place to meet unbelievers where they are. Most...
Click for a PDF version Monday Read 1 John 4:7-12; John 13:34-35 Appreciating God’s Amazing Love In his first letter to an unspecified Christian community, John makes several profound statements about the nature of God’s love: love (biblically, “unconditionally wanting nothing but the best for another”) comes from God (1 John 4:7); God...
Click for PDF version Monday Read 1 Peter 2:21 An Example in Obedience “For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in His steps.” (1 Peter 2:21 ESV) One of the most haunting aspects of the Passion Week is when...
Click for a PDF version Monday Read Galatians 2:19-21; Colossians 2:20-23; Luke 11:37-44 “For through the law I died to the law … [and] if righteousness [was attainable] through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.” (Galatians 2: 19-21) The penman, the Apostle Paul, knew much about the legalism—“emphasizing … rules and...
