Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light.
- Matthew 6:22
No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house.
- Matthew 5:15
If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that.
Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth? For the new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth, leaving an even bigger tear than before.
- Mark 2:21
You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless.
- Matthew 5:13
I tell you the truth, slaves are not greater than their master. Nor is the messenger more important than the one who sends the message.
When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
To whom it may concern,
I know I’m not perfect. I never have been and I never will be. But I have accepted the gift of grace which continues to redefine me as a person. Please be patient with me as I walk the path He has set before me.
“Put away your sword,” Jesus told him. “Those who use the sword will die by the sword.”
And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but are yourself lost or destroyed?
No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us.
I am leaving you with a gift - peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.
Joy to the world - Isaac Watts, 1719
