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Ephesians 5:1 (NLT) Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children.   I am following an online study from Good Morning Girls about being intentionally focused on God.  It just started yesterday, but God has added messages from sermons and videos and conversations to lead me to think about wisdom.  Haven’t we already been observing…

1 Corinthians 1:18-28 (excerpts – NLT) –  I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds.  God saw to it that the world would never find him through human wisdom.  This foolish plan of God is far wiser that the wisest of human plans.  God deliberately chose things the world considers foolish…

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.  As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9 (NLT)   Sometimes Jesus doesn’t make sense.  Not only do His ideas directly contradict worldly…

The kingdom of God that Jesus describes differs significantly from the world’s ways. What do we ask when we pray “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth?”

Mark 10:25 (NLT) In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!   Jesus’ message in this conversation must have made an impact because Matthew, Mark and Luke all include this teaching in their writing.  It probably…

Image courtesy of Photobucket.com Luke 16:15 (NLT) Then [Jesus] said to them, “You like to appear righteous in public, but God knows your hearts.”   In my mind I think “Well, I’m not as bad as so-in-so.”  But God doesn’t grade on the curve and deem me good or bad based on others’ performance.  God’s…