Weekly Blog Post

Week 7, Wednesday Amy Hood   You have heard that it was said, “Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. Matthew 5:43-45 Wow. Love your enemies? Are You serious, God? How can…

Week 7, Tuesday Amy Hood   “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. . . . Love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no commandment greater than these. Mark 12:30-31 Imagine the situation—the Creator of the universe being backed…

Week 7, Monday Amy Hood   For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will. Ephesians 1:4-5 It was just a little over three…

Week 6, Weekend Elaine Meador   So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36 Tamang girls from Nepal are often sold into prostitution by their destitute families. The young girls are taken to live in the brothels of Mumbai, Calcutta, and other large cities. There they live in slavery. One…

Week 6, Friday Elaine Meador   Dear friends, when the fiery ordeal arises among you to test you, don’t be surprised by it, as if something unusual were happening to you. Instead, as you share in the sufferings of the Messiah rejoice, so that you may also rejoice with great joy at the revelation of…

Week 6, Thursday Elaine Meador   Lord, You have searched me and known me. . . . For it was You who created my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. . . .Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all [my] days were written in Your book and planned before…

Week 6, Wednesday Elaine Meador In my anguish I cried to the Lord, and he answered by setting me free.  Psalm 118:5 Becky, a South American anthropology student, began attending the weekly Bible Storying sessions at the Baptist student center near her university. She was drawn to Christ but confessed to her missionary friend, “I…

Week 6, Tuesday Elaine Meador “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink . . . or naked and clothe you . . . or sick or in prison and visit you?” And the King will answer them, “Truly, I say to you, as you did it…

Week 6, Monday Elaine Meador   For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 2 Corinthians 10:4 (esv) Paul reminds us in 2 Corinthians that Satan, the god of this world, has hardened the hearts and blinded the minds of unbelievers in order “to keep…