Making Good People Helpless Will Not Make Bad People Harmless ∙ For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. All these vile things come from within; they are what defile you. – Mark 7:21-23 Romans 1:28-32: Since theyContinue reading “Making Good People Helpless Will Not Make Bad People Harmless ∙”
Tag Archives: Metamorphosis
Shaping Tomorrow from Life’s Raw Material
Shaping Tomorrow from Life’s Raw Material This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! – 2 Corinthians 5:17 Romans 12:2: Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind Reshaping the Story ofContinue reading “Shaping Tomorrow from Life’s Raw Material”
Better than new ∙∙
Better than new ∙∙ Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! – 2 Corinthians 5:17 Luke 5:36-39 36 Then Jesus gave them this illustration: No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to patch an oldContinue reading “Better than new ∙∙”
Squeezed into a mold ∙
Squeezed into a mold ∙ Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. – Romans 12:2 1 Peter 1:13-23 13 So think clearly and exercise self-control. Look forward to the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. 14 SoContinue reading “Squeezed into a mold ∙”
Amend the soil of your hearts ∙
Amend the soil of your hearts ∙ The seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted! – Mark 4:20 Mark 4:3-9 3 Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seed.Continue reading “Amend the soil of your hearts ∙”