Category: Bible
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Galatians

Enough: Giving up religion and growing in grace. https://youtu.be/_Y2OOOQSCkU?is=fJ8vWubYkWZODwYw Galatians 1:1, 3-24 (MSG):1. I, Paul, and my companions in faith here, send greetings to the Galatian churches. My authority for writing to you does not come from any popular vote of the people, nor does it come through the appointment of some human higher-up. It…
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Sunday walk

Walk! With Pastor Carey https://youtube.com/@pastorcaryschmidt?si=X7cSRbAOCVhDy0V4 https://youtu.be/SQuWnCj6XEQ?is=Lrom2DVkB-R8KLJT Walking in his ways is THE freedom! Yes and Amen 🫂❣️ Thank you for this series 🙏 Galatians 6:18 (MSG):May what our Master Jesus Christ gives freely be deeply and personally yours, my friends. Oh, yes!
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Phillipians

Philippians 4:1-23 (MSG):1. My dear, dear friends! I love you so much. I do want the very best for you. You make me feel such joy, fill me with such pride. Don’t waver. Stay on track, steady in God.2. I urge Euodia and Syntyche to iron out their differences and make up. God doesn’t want…
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The word of God is life

To walk in love and stand for righteousness. Anything outside of Jesus is false, doesn’t belong to his right way of living and that is his domain. We are his sheep of his pasture. Now, Jesus does say if He chooses to keep John here until He comes, what is it to us and that…
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Hebrews

12:22-29 (MSG):22. No, that’s not your experience at all. You’ve come to Mount Zion, the city where the living God resides. The invisible Jerusalem is populated by throngs of festive angels23. and Christian citizens. It is the city where God is Judge, with judgments that make us just.24. You’ve come to Jesus, who presents us…
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Hebrews 11:1-40 (MSG):
1. The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t see.
2. The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.
3. By faith, we see the world called into existence by God’s word, what we see created by what we don’t see.
4. By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. That’s what God noticed and approved as righteous. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice.
5. By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. “They looked all over and couldn’t find him because God had taken him.” We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken “he pleased God.”
6. It’s impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.
7. By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn’t see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.
8. By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God’s call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going.
9. By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise.
10. Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God.
11. By faith, barren Sarah was able to become pregnant, old woman as she was at the time, because she believed the One who made a promise would do what he said.
12. That’s how it happened that from one man’s dead and shriveled loins there are now people numbering into the millions.
13. Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world.
14. People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true home.
15. If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted.
16. But they were after a far better country than that—heaven country. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them.
17. By faith, Abraham, at the time of testing, offered Isaac back to God. Acting in faith, he was as ready to return the promised son, his only son, as he had been to receive him—
18. and this after he had already been told, “Your descendants shall come from Isaac.”
19. Abraham figured that if God wanted to, he could raise the dead. In a sense, that’s what happened when he received Isaac back, alive from off the altar.
20. By an act of faith, Isaac reached into the future as he blessed Jacob and Esau.
21. By an act of faith, Jacob on his deathbed blessed each of Joseph’s sons in turn, blessing them with God’s blessing, not his own—as he bowed worshipfully upon his staff.
22. By an act of faith, Joseph, while dying, prophesied the exodus of Israel, and made arrangements for his own burial.
23. By an act of faith, Moses’ parents hid him away for three months after his birth. They saw the child’s beauty, and they braved the king’s decree.
24. By faith, Moses, when grown, refused the privileges of the Egyptian royal house.
25. He chose a hard life with God’s people rather than an opportunistic soft life of sin with the oppressors.
26. He valued suffering in the Messiah’s camp far greater than Egyptian wealth because he was looking ahead, anticipating the payoff.
27. By an act of faith, he turned his heel on Egypt, indifferent to the king’s blind rage. He had his eye on the One no eye can see, and kept right on going.
28. By an act of faith, he kept the Passover Feast and sprinkled Passover blood on each house so that the destroyer of the firstborn wouldn’t touch them.
29. By an act of faith, Israel walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. The Egyptians tried it and drowned.
30. By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell flat.
31. By an act of faith, Rahab, the Jericho harlot, welcomed the spies and escaped the destruction that came on those who refused to trust God.
32. I could go on and on, but I’ve run out of time. There are so many more—Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets… .
33. Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions,
34. fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies.
35. Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection.
36. Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and dungeons.
37. We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—
38. the world didn’t deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world.
39. Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised.
40. God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours.
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Hebrews

Hebrews 10:1-19, 22-39 (MSG):1. The old plan was only a hint of the good things in the new plan. Since that old “law plan” wasn’t complete in itself, it couldn’t complete those who followed it. No matter how many sacrifices were offered year after year, they never added up to a complete solution.2. If they…
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AE@amosandellie

amosandellie.com09/25/26 Music: Filmora Universalcreated by: Kellie E Mick Zechariah 1:3 (MSG):So give to the people this Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: ‘Come back to me and I’ll come back to you.Malachi 1:11 (MSG):“I am honored all over the world. And there are people who know how to worship me all over the world, who honor me by…
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Psalms

144 (MSG):1. A David psalmBlessed be God, my mountain,who trains me to fight fair and well.2. He’s the bedrock on which I stand,the castle in which I live,my rescuing knight,The high crag where I run for dear life,while he lays my enemies low.3. I wonder why you care, God—why do you bother with us at…
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Life to live

1Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. 2Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.…
