I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart. - Psalm 40:8

This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. - 1 John 3:19-20

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do ( Read more... )

Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. - Ephesians 5:19-20 ( Read more... )

God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. - Proverbs 3:34

What would we be like if we truly understood our need for grace? I know that I don't understand it. But it is His grace that causes our humility, and His humility that is our very salvation. It was His willingness to humble himself and became obedient to death - even death on ( Read more... )

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death - even death on a cross! - Philippians 2:8 ( Read more... )

O Love that will not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
That in thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.
-- O Love That Will Not Let Me Go, verse 1

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what ( Read more... )

He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.- Micah 6:8 ( Read more... )

"Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." - Acts 2:36 ( Read more... )

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. - Galatians 5:22-23 NIV ( Read more... )

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. - Romans 15:7 NIV ( Read more... )

Those who cling to worthless idols
forfeit the grace that could be theirs.
-- Jonah 2:8 NIV

The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair.
-- Relient K, "Be My Escape"

We believe in one holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
-- The Nicene Creed

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.-- Paul ( ( Read more... )