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1 Peter 2: 9,10 = This may be the most amazing description of the persons who believe in Jesus in the entire Bible. Here Peter admonishes us to accept the titles that describe with the responsibility that they are designed for. 

Scripture - 1 Peter 2:4-8Theme - God's work is LIVING and He invites us to be be a part of it. This is the third qualities in Peter's letter he describes as "living". Living Hope 1.3, LIving Word 1:23 and now Living Stone/s. God wasys are always life producing, this is a key to discerning what is from God and what is not - Does it produce life or does it end in death?I would also like to invite you to enjoy a them song for this series in 1 Peter. It is a Phil Wickham song called "LIVING HOPE". https://youtu.be/9f2FXxDVO6w?si=D7CuV0KQa4mgl-Kz

Scripture: Luke 24:13-35 (NIV)Song: He's Alive (Don Francisco)https://youtu.be/70qk6tLHht4?si=dpvdZlTS--97uljx

Scripture: John 19:17-30Song: The Old Rugged Cross (Guy Penrod)https://youtu.be/zyfR7URb8TY?si=D4GoAVKgR8dbTHaG

Scripture; John 19:1-16 (NIV)Song: Lead Me to Calvary (Don Moen)https://youtu.be/CgwX3bYgav8?si=Twcfw2IDPp0X_ZzW

Scripture: John 18:1-14 (NIV)Song; And Can It Behttps://youtu.be/A3U0G7OiKJw?si=SByLzQRUtNpkqizZ

Scripture: John 17:20-26 (NIV)Song: At Calvaryhttps://youtu.be/Gt3BrYsVzQ8?si=LTrI0n2v9yEK1xYh

Scripture: John 17:6-19Song: The Steadfast Love of the Lord (Dave Hunt) from Lamentations 3:22, 23https://youtu.be/cXtXlp5oQXY?si=lYktCvDFjUU5MVbn

Scripture: John 17:1-5 (NIV)Songs: I want to know you more (Chris Tomlin)https://youtu.be/fFftwsayolE?si=jPh52R7t78QMm0ut& I want to know you (CityALight)https://youtu.be/AY3EGQvyl5M?si=Ud961kvcS_EX4azq

Scripture: JOhn 16:16-33Song: I Come to You (Lester Delgado)https://youtu.be/ved6QAp9Px4?si=b4A8FTSHgQzkD1kv

Scripture: John 15:26 - John 16:15Song: Hosanna (Chris plus)https://youtu.be/B_p7810nDx0?si=z0S34ZBDedNL18Rj

Scripture: John 15:1-17 (NIV)Song: Constantly Abiding (Michael Lining)https://youtu.be/qjVOmjFyt1Q?si=tHN3WjT6BXePljsl

Scripture: John 14:15-31 (NIV)Song: How Great Thou Art (Chris Rice)https://youtu.be/Cc0QVWzCv9k?si=14yuHZCXNqjEKJRv

Scripture: John 14:5-14 (NIV)Song: Everyday (People and Songs) https://youtu.be/TlCYgcLSIXA?si=yODfGqWWuMRLwELf

Scripture: John 13:31 - 14:4 (NIV)Song: "I Will Trust My Savior, Jesus" (CityALight)https://youtu.be/GB9eXtwfAAg?si=vsn0eYUPfATSAqsZ

Scripture: John 13:18-30 (NIV)Song: Jesus, Strong and Kind (CityA Light)https://youtu.be/T5Y8s-Sz_ac?si=-lImD5WtObqP26Bb

Scripture: Luke 22:11-26 (NIV) This scripture gives the context for all that Jesus shares in our readings from John 13 to 17 which we will be doing the next two weeks.Song: His Glory and My Good - CityALighthttps://youtu.be/4yQ42RU3Nh8?si=lohkUQ8xeTmXQGAK

Scripture: John 13:1- 17 (NIV)Song: Love Like This (Lauren Daigle)https://youtu.be/Br1q_i1RHPU?si=bxasvmz9tRtmoqbT

Scripture: 1 Peter 4:7-11 (read from the NIV and The Message)Songs: Beloved Let Us Love One Another - https://youtu.be/N9C1tAYgWBw?si=PEUpcl97oi5vSDAk  & They will Know We are Christians by Our Love - https://youtu.be/bL5bT_Ezeq8?si=8Im4n5RI8eFFriCF

Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-24 (The Message Bible)Songs: A Mighty Fortress - https://youtu.be/oNeP7bGagqg?si=r7oSwEghdX78xvpA and The Battle Belongs to the Lord (Phil Wickham) - https://youtu.be/BiPNieLnt0s?si=5MTckAen_lq8TCqA

Scripture: Ephesians 5 21 - 6:9Song - I Speak Jesus by Charity Gaylehttps://youtu.be/SV4sYN173HY?si=aKvMpR9eJDjvI1xH

Scripture - Ephesians 5:6-20 (The Message)Song - Blessed Assurancehttps://youtu.be/rDeiy9-t2GE?si=IMwLFeCnzAvzGMK7

Scripture for today - Ephesians 5:1-5 (The Message)Song - The Love of God (Mercy Me) https://youtu.be/Vq9LpAVysbM?si=9JSx9eDfscSOSw-u

Scripture - Ephesians 4:17-32 (The Message Bible paraphrase)Song - Redeemedlink - https://youtu.be/32u5h8MEx_w?si=1JDQqRBGZb513A6b

Scripture: Psalm 75 (The Message)I've been floating around in the readings based primarily on what I feel God speaking to me. I hope you find benefit in them. Song: What a Beautiful Name (HIllsong)Link - https://youtu.be/r5L6QlAH3L4?si=82E2bZBsY4XF7zXa

Scripture - Ephesians 4:1-16 (NIV)Song - I Surrender (Hillsong)Link - https://youtu.be/jgsqfjRslzA?si=YSCKz038Wy6g3xGb

Today reading - Psalm 73 (NIV)Suggested Song - He Will Be (City A Light)https://youtu.be/TmQOUvSo-4M?si=3te1ddRxIzhwLUDp

Ephesians 3:14-21Song: Higher Ground - by The Living Stones Quartethttps://youtu.be/mu45FEplgjY?si=YB7szrRu1rVJSDtJ

Ephesians 3:1-13Song - Word of God Speak - Big Daddy Weavehttps://youtu.be/p9Zh1FUbWjw?si=A9ksNvy5wR3l83CL

Psalm 69 from The Message Paraphrase - A Psalm describing how Jesus takes on our sin, our pain, our rejection, our anger and bears it, presenting it to the Father for Healing. Song - Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus by Lauren Daiglehttps://youtu.be/5X85txs60yY?si=IbbJzrRZX6DBh8hV

Ephesians 2:11-22Song - So Will I https://youtu.be/GfVd5x9W1Xc?si=iE0h-TP2ivB1vU1d

Ephesians 2:1-10Suggested Song - The Goodness of Godlink - https://youtu.be/-f4MUUMWMV4?si=g3a4MLFpLQc3Gfls

Psalm 62Song link - https://youtu.be/TQRm9IrrMFM?si=edsC2vpK1H-meb2T

Ephesian's 1:15-23

Ephesian's 1:1-14

Scripture - Psalm 8Song suggestion - You are Worthy of it All by Matt Redmon

This is the beginning of a series designed to assist you in observing lent in your workplace. Each episode has a scripture, a comment, a prayer and a song suggestion. There will be 5 each week through Easter. You are encouraged to find scripture, meditate and pray on your own the other 2 days of each week. God bless. 

1 Peter chapter one focus' on being born again to a new life in Christ. 1 Peter chapter two focus' on growing up, living out our new life in Christ. The first three verses, the focus of this podcast talk about things we need to exchange if we are going to grow up. I hope you enjoy.

God's Provisions, HIs Salvation, His Life-giving Love, HIs Provision for a healthy soul are powerful, effective and guaranteed BUT we need to respond. Faith & Obedience are the prescribed responses. Just like when the doctor writes a prescription for us, we need to pick it up, take it, use it for it to become ours. In this podcast Peter, Paul and Jesus give us words of instruction and encouragement in exercising the gift of faith.

The Word of God is like a Seed that is planted into our lives and produces new life. God does not force His way into our lives so we need to respond and the primary response we are asked to give is to "Trust and Obey". Peter helps us understand what this looks like. I hope my words help you discover how you can respond to God in a way that brings new life to your day.

Peter begins to take his readers on a journey of discovering how to live out the salvation God has gifted them with. Living salvation in daily life requires "FAITH" but what does it look like. The rest of this book gives us help and encouragement in answering that question. Today's episode talks about keeping our mind in the right place, staying focused on the right things, trusting God who is right, who does things right and makes things right. 

All of us need salvation. Most of us will admit it at least at times. Peter joins the Salvation chorus of scripture as he ministers to the exiles in Asia Minor and to us. God's Salvation is for us today, not just for our eternal destiny, but for our everyday lives. 

The Apostle Peter lived in times just as desperate as we do today. He ministered to people who were confused about their circumstances, struggling with doubts about God and trying to survive in a hostile world. Peter begins addressing these folks with a a reminder of God's mercy and of God's power. 

This podcast is on Peter's greeting to churches in Asia Minor (modern Turkey). The introduction immediately lets us know that Peter's audience are living in difficult circumstances. He quickly seeks to bring comfort and assurance to them. God is for them, His work is effective and abundant on their behalf. Today we also live in a difficult world, war, discord, confusion, abuse - a long list of difficulties. Following Christ does not mean the absence of trouble but it does mean we have help, a helper actually that dispenses redemptive grace that is more than enough for every difficulty. 

Every one of us will be tempted to go astray is some way today. Jesus understands and he offers help. His help is amazing.

It is easy to debate various aspects of Scriptural Revelation, brilliant minds have had major disagreements regarding the interpretation of scripture, and Biblical doctrine. But one thing is is difficult to debate is that God loves us and that he wants us to love "one another". That is pretty straight forward. If we do have questions about how to love, there are at least 35 direct commands given in scripture about how we are to treat "one another" well. Forgiveness is one of them, "forgive one another". Jesus makes forgiveness a part of this teaching on prayer, and it is the one part of the prayer that he actually included a footnote for emphasis. Hope you enjoy. 

Jesus makes it clear that food for our physical body is secondary to feeding our spiritual lives on the Word of God. This episode has a few thoughts on how Jesus teaches us to walk in the tension of a physical body that demands to eat and a spiritual life that desperately needs God. 

God's will, sometimes is about when and where we should be doing things and there can be some mystery involved is knowing what His will is. More often than not His will is about living my life right here, right now in OEDIENCE to what I know I should be doing. When we pray, Jesus is teaching us that it is a time to bring ourselves into alignment and agreement with what God has revealed. If God has spoken it, we know without doubt it is heaven's way. Heaven's way and our way, heaven's way the world's way are almost always in conflict with each other, That makes this purposeful act of aligning ourselves with God, with heaven necessary all of the time. 

When Jesus teaches us to pray, I believe he gives us a way of taking the conversation from the closet to the stuff of everyday life. Conversing with God is a privilege we can engage in, in the car, on a phone call, in the middle of an argument or disagreement. It centers us in "the One" who has the wisdom, the strength and ability to help us whatever the circumstance.Today's episode offers a simple way of coming to God and embracing his kingdom in any aspect of our lives. There are many ways to do this and if we truly want the Kingdom of God to come into our daily lives, we will find one that works for us.