Hold Us Together

Where were you when the world

came crashing down around me?

You were on the cross.

You were always there.

-Matt Maher

There Is Nothing Like You

For I have given you an example,

that you also should do just as I have done to you.

-John 13:15

Your Father really is your best role model.

Life in These Little Boats

Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe

-Philippians 2:14-15

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.

-1 John 3:1-3

Chapter 13

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,

"For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

-Romans 8:35-39

"A person isn't a sum of their behaviors. A person is someone that God loves." -Rachel W.

My boss was helping to give me the low-down for my new job of being an urban missionary. She said that it's a huge blessing to have the crew in love with Jesus. When we work together as one, Christ can be glorified. It was refreshing to be reminded of the love that He has for us.

It was also a blessing to be reminded of the fact that God loves us despite what we do. A person should be loved just the same, no matter how they love Jesus, love themselves, or love others. It's a great reminder--to love our friends, family, and enemies through the eyes of Christ.

May we all seek out Christ's heart in the midst of every [blessed] thing that Christ has to offer us.

Falling Into You

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

-Romans 6:4

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One Lord, one faith, one baptism

-Ephesians 4:5