Daniel 9:22-23
The angel Gabriel spoke to me and said ‘Daniel, you see me; I have come down to teach you how to understand. When your pleading began, a word was uttered, and I have come to tell you what it is. You are a man specially chosen. Grasp the meaning of the word, understand the vision.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
(C.S. Lewis)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5YcwlZAikk
Romans 8:35,37
Nothing can come between us and the love of Christ, even if we are troubled or worried, or being persecuted, or lacking food or clothes, or being threatened or even attacked. These are the trials through which we triumph, by the power of him who loved us.
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
(Thomas Babington)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkx_rS6hGx4&ob=av2e
1 Corinthians 12:4-6
There is a variety of gifts but always the same Spirit; there are all sorts of service to be done, but always to the same Lord; working in all sorts of different ways in different people, it is the same God who is working in all of them
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
(Michael Jordan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW5HYznywIg
Jeremiah 15:16
When your words came, I devoured them: your word was my delight and the joy of my heart; for I was called by your name, Lord, God of hosts.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_5oE0ijhKg
Amos 4:13
He it was who formed the mountains, created the wind, reveals his mind to man, makes both dawn and dark, and walks on the top of the heights of the world; the Lord, the God of Hosts, is his name.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
(Charles Dickens)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD6Hx4xRzIA
2 Corinthians 5:19-20
God has entrusted to us the news of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ’s name is: be reconciled to God.
It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
(Matthew Henry)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAJaZEOWL-0
Romans 13:11,12-13
You must wake up now: the night is almost over, it will be daylight soon. Let us give up all the things we prefer to do under cover of the dark; let us arm ourselves and appear in the light. Let us live decently as people do in the daytime.
I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
(Stan Laurel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ERSxK3040
Romans 13:8,10Avoid getting into debt, except the debt of mutual love. If you love your fellow men you have carried out your obligations. Love is the one thing that cannot hurt your neighbour; that is why it is the answer to every one of the commandments
A man in debt is so far a slave.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9aXaeheYFw
Romans 12:17,19-20,21
Never repay evil with evil. As scripture says: Vengeance is mine – I will pay them back, says the Lord. But there is more: If your enemy is hungry, you should give him food, and if he is thirsty, let him drink. Resist evil and conquer it with good.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
(William Tecumseh Sherman)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le-TG4sRRiQ&feature=fvsr
Weekly Blessing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo37K46qz0w&feature=player_embedded
Hebrews 12:1-2
We should throw off everything that hinders us, especially the sin that clings so easily, and keep running steadily in the race we have started. Let us not lose sight of Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection: for the sake of the joy which was still in the future, he endured the cross, disregarding the shamefulness of it, and from now on has taken his place at the right of God’s throne.
The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
(Ernest Hello)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM6wuVudnP8&ob=av2n
Ephesians 1:7-8
In Christ and through his blood we gain our freedom, the forgiveness of our sins. Such is the richness of the grace which he has showered on us.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
(Dag Hammarskjold)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id6hkzslQww
1 John 3:17-18
If a man who was rich enough in this world’s goods saw that one of his brothers was in need, but closed his heart to him, how could the love of God be living in him? My children, our love is not to be just words or mere talk, but something real and active.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
(Gilbert K. Chesterton)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdGwQpyreh0
Wisdom 15:1,3
You, our God, are kind, loyal and slow to anger, and you govern all things with mercy. To acknowledge you is indeed the perfect virtue, to know your power is the root of immortality.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
(Gilbert K. Chesterton)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5iGjfIbL18
Romans 1:16-17
The power of God saves all who have faith – Jews first, but Greeks as well – since this is what reveals the justice of God to us: it shows how faith leads to faith, or as scripture says: The upright man finds life through faith.
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
(Gilbert K. Chesterton)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKGDyZlT_44&feature=related
Apocalypse 21:3
You see this city? Here God lives among men. He will make his home among them; they shall be his people, and he will be their God; his name is God-with-them.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
(Plato)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgQccYki-9Y
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offence, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
(Euripides)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR1ljs8RBdQ
Proverbs 22:22-23
Because a man is poor, do not therefore cheat him, nor, at the city gate, oppress anybody in affliction; for the Lord takes up their cause, and extorts the life of their extortioners.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
(Lucius Annaeus Seneca)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PFIeHyWBO0&feature=related
Romans 14:17-19
The kingdom of God does not mean eating or drinking this or that, it means righteousness and peace and joy brought by the Holy Spirit. If you serve Christ in this way you will please God and be respected by men. So let us adopt any custom that leads to peace and our mutual improvement.
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
(William Law)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGx-xU6TnU8
