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"‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

JESUS the CHRIST

"How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news."

Nuggets in a Nutshell

from Paul's letter to Philipians 

"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus..'"

from the Book of Proverbs

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

from the Book of Romans

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Nicolette Sowder

"Give me the wild children with their bare feet and sparkling eyes. The restless, churning climbers. The wild ones using their outside voices, singing all the way home. Give me the wonder-filled, glorious mess makers dreaming of mountains and mud, aching to run through a field of stars."

Peace Like A River

When peace like a river attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll, whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say It is well, it is well with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come, let this blest assurance control, that Christ has regarded my helpless estate and has shed His own blood for my soul.

My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought (the thought). my sin, not in part, but the whole (every bit, every bit, all of it). Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul

And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight, the clouds be rolled back as a scroll The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend, Even so, it is well with my soul

from Paul's letter to Phillipians

Finally, brothers and sisters,

whatever is true,

whatever is noble,

whatever is right,

whatever is pure,

whatever is lovely,

whatever is admirable

—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—

think about such things. 

Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

Isaiah, the Prophet

"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners."

Bishop Gene Robinson

"It's funny isn't it? That you can preach a judgmental and vengeful and angry God and nobody will mind. But you start preaching a God that is too accepting, too loving, too forgiving, too merciful, too kind . . . and you are in trouble."

Desmond Tutu

"You may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.."

- It's a New Horizon -

Let your gentleness be evident in all that you do. Allow the goodness of God to overflow you wherever you may be. It's in your favor. For your growth! Any space in which you are not allowed to question, to explore, to examine, to seek understanding, is not a space for growth. Be where you can breathe. Be where your heart and eyes are allowed to be opened to the marvelous creation into which you are born and with which you are blessed - to the wonder that is you, uniquely you. Be where you can grow. Hello love. Hello joy. Hello peace. It's a new horizon. Fear is not the answer. You are free. Christ cleared the way, expressly for you to know that you are free, and that you are invited to your inheritance, the very inheritance expressly available to you from the beginning. And you have the best guide ever - a signatured agreement. Full stop. It's a new horizon.

Dear God, grant me victory today over all that assails. Help me square up to even the greatest challenges and claim authority over them, unafraid. Amen.

_ Joshua Dubois

"It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something."

- John Lewis