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FriFridayMarMarch15th2013 March 15

Posted Friday, March 15 2013 @ 5 AM byRick Mang Tagged John 0 comments Add comment

Friday, March 15, 2013

John 8:31-41

There is a value from studying that I have experienced many times in my life. Study has helped to “set me free.”

Study takes time, involves a lot of my focus, and has to be a disciplined effort on my part in order for me personally to benefit from it. Study of many things has often helped to clear the “confusion” or “fogginess” around things that I am having difficulty with.

After my diagnosis of thyroid cancer in September, 2013, I was frightened and worried. Then Liz and I started studying about thyroid cancer. We studied what types there were and the treatment plans for each. And as a result, we started to relax, and not be as worried. Where we had felt chained up by the diagnosis, we began to be set free in a sense, as we learned that my form of thyroid cancer was treatable, and in most cases curable.

A big relief... just how you feel when you are set free from something that is troubling you.

Now, I know and believe your prayers for us helped greatly. But combined with the study of the information we were given, and then delving more deeply into the subject ourselves... we began to have hope.

Something else about being set free. You feel the return of hope.

ThuThursdayMarMarch14th2013 March 14

Posted Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 5 AM byRick Mang Tagged John 0 comments Add comment

Thursday, March 14, 2013

John 8:12-30

This is a difficult passage of scripture for many people. It takes a dedicated time of study of this scripture text to come to both a personal, and fuller, understanding of it.

A lot of scripture passages in the Bible, if we are completely honest, will require of us multiple readings of the text. You see, the daily experiences of life, combined with how we respond to what’s going on around us, and how we feel emotionally and physically that particular day all affect how we read a passage of scripture, as well as what we understand.

There have been times when I have studied a passage from the Bible many times, even coming to a conclusion of how God is speaking to me through it. Then a week, or month, or a year later I reread it again, only to hear something completely different!

Study takes time.

How much time?

The time it needs.

Only then can our efforts at study help us see the light God sends our way.

WedWednesdayMarMarch6th2013 March 6

Posted Wednesday, March 06 2013 @ 5 AM byArmando Alvarado Tagged John 0 comments Add comment

Wednesday, March 6

John 4:21-24

This passage comes from the Woman at the well. Jesus was giving her the opportunity to worship the truth. True worshipers are those who realize that Jesus is the Truth of God and the one and only Way to the Father. How do we worship our God our Lord? Do we put our trust on things of this world that are not of God? We are all worshipers. Listen to what Paul says in Romans 1:25… “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised, Amen.” Let’s give God all the Glory and Praise.

SatSaturdayJanJanuary14th2012

John 15:5-11

Posted Saturday, January 14 2012 @ 5 AM byRev. John Mollet Tagged John 0 comments Add comment

John 15:5-11

“I am the vine, you are the branches.”

How is the Lord the source of your life and actions? If God is all love, all goodness and all life, we find those only through the Lord. What else are you relying on for these things in your life? My guess is they are not all that satisfying.

SatSaturdayNovNovember12th2011

John 13:1-11

Posted Saturday, November 12 2011 @ 5 AM by Tagged John Service 0 comments Add comment

John 13:1-11

Simply put . . . unless we example service in our own lives, we cannot teach it or require it of others.

Jesus met the needs of so many, yet in a time when he knew what laid ahead for him personally, he stops and teaches a final lesson about service to his disciples. He washed their stinking dirty feet.

Jesus taught by example. May be consider loving others so much, that we do the same.

Dear Lord, help me have the heart to serve whomever needs me. Open my eyes to the endless possibilities of service, for the sake of Your Kingdom, that I not be lifted up, but that You be lifted up. Amen.

WedWednesdayOctOctober12th2011

John 14:15-21

Posted Wednesday, October 12 2011 @ 5 AM byJohn Mollet Tagged God's Presence John 0 comments Add comment

John 14:15-21

“…the Spirit of truth…dwells with you and will be in you.”

I like the Where's Waldo books. It is fun, challenging and frustrating at times to search for the hidden Waldo. When you find him, he was in plain sight all the time. So it is with the spirit. John reminds us the spirit is always with us; even in us. The spirit can be seen when we realize we present it to the world through our living and our loving. Looking for the presence of God? Don’t look too far. Look inside you and in the love of others.

WedWednesdaySepSeptember21st2011

John 14:18-21

Posted Wednesday, September 21 2011 @ 5 AM byJohn Mollet Tagged Faith John 0 comments Add comment

John 14:18-21

“I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you.”

Another of my favorite Shel Silverstein poems is entitled "Nobody":

"Nobody"by Shel Silverstein

Nobody loves me,
Nobody cares,
Nobody picks me peaches and pears.
Nobody offers me candy and Cokes,
Nobody listens and laughs at my jokes.
Nobody helps when I get in a fight,
Nobody does all my homework at night.
Nobody misses me,
Nobody cries,
Nobody thinks I'm a wonderful guy.
So if you ask me who's my best friend, in a whiz,
I'll stand up and tell you that Nobody is.
But yesterday night I got quite a scare,
I woke up and Nobody just wasn't there.
I called out and reached out for Nobody's hand,
In the darkness where Nobody usually stands.
Then I poked through the house, in each cranny and nook,
But I found somebody each place that I looked.
I searched till I'm tired, and now with the dawn,
There's no doubt about it -
Nobody's gone!

Faith means nobody is gone.

MonMondayAugAugust22nd2011

John 5:25-29

Posted Monday, August 22 2011 @ 5 AM byJohn Mollet Tagged John New Life 1 comments Add comment

John 5:25-29

“Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and the hour is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God.”

Throughout the New Testament, in the coming of Jesus, there is an interesting twist of the "already" and "not quite yet." Several times Jesus is recorded as saying that the kingdom of God is coming and is at hand. The coming of Christ is two-fold: God reestablishes the covenant and gives the promise of eternal life, and God also gives the world his son who gives new life now. What is it in you that Jesus can bring back to life?

WedWednesdayAugAugust17th2011

John 1:1-14

Posted Wednesday, August 17 2011 @ 5 AM byJohn Mollet Tagged Authority John Power 1 comments Add comment

John 1:1-14

“…to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God…”

“…power to become children of God.” That is an interesting phrase. Even if we believe we are created by God, it is those who receive him and believe in him that have the power to become his children. Being a parent or a child has less to do with biology than it does with choice. God has decided to be our father. Will you decide to be God’s child?

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