Scripture Passage 1 Corinthians 12:12-26 12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is […]
Then God Said
Scripture Passage Genesis 1:1-5 When God began to create the heavens and the earth, 2 the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good, and God […]
Life is Miraculous
Scripture Passage Luke 2:1-14 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register. 4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee […]
Hope: Proclaiming
Scripture Passage Luke 4:14-21 14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. 3 Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 15 He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him 16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought […]
Hope: Sharing
Scripture Passage Mark 2:1-12 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 2 They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. 3 Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried […]
Hope: Hearing
Scripture Passage Luke 3:7-14 2 The people walking in darkness have seen a great light;on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.3 You have enlarged the nation and increase their joy;they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest,as warriors rejoice when dividing the plunder. 4 For as in the day […]