Day 2: Jesus is God Prayer: Our Father in heaven, show us the fullness of Your glory through the flesh and blood person of Christ. Amen. Primary Scripture:John 1:1-2: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. As we saw with the first name of Jesus in the book of John, the opening verse takes us back to the “time” before time. Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God…” And John 1:1 tells us that the God w

Prayer:   Our Father in heaven, Jesus told His disciples the night before He died that Your Holy Spirit would guide us into all truth, that the Spirit would take of Christ and reveal Him to us.  We pray for this gift of revelation and guidance by Your Spirit, that Jesus might be magnified in our understanding and in our lives.  Amen. Day 1:   Jesus is the Word Primary Scripture:   John 1:1:   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The

When the Bible speaks of goodness, it is often in relation to good works. I will never forget the time when I was studying the book of Titus, which is where older women are instructed to teach younger women to be good. I started the study because the book had seemed to me to be such a hodgepodge of random topics. I couldn’t see how the book all tied together. I spent over two weeks reading through the book everyday over and over, praying that God would help me understand it a

There is, of course, much more to the word good than the goodness of God displayed in creation. Goodness is full-orbed and many-dimensional. Like all the characteristics of God, it is holistic. When God instructs us to be good, He is first of all calling us to the goodness of character. As we saw in the last blog, God’s essential nature is good. He never calls us to something other than what He Himself is, for His goal in redemption is to conform us to His very own image. He

Older women, teach the younger women to be good (Titus 2:5). For me, as I thought through the list of seven things older women are to teach younger women, this word good seemed so common, so nondescript. I didn’t really know what exactly we were to teach. But a deeper study has opened up a treasure trove of specific and practical applications for us as women to inculcate (“to cause to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle” Merriam-Webster) into our l

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