by MJR | Sep 27, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Ephesians 4:28 For most of us, the idea of being considered a thief is a little out of the ordinary. Few of us...
by MJR | Sep 26, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Ephesians 4:26-27 The passage above draws a distinction between being angry and sing, but have you ever felt guilty for being angry? It seems to me to be a matter...
by MJR | Sep 25, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Ephesians 4:25 I’ve heard this type of story more than once where a person states that their personal journey of faith was almost...
by MJR | Sep 24, 2024 | Genuine Hope
But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in...
by MJR | Sep 23, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart....
by MJR | Sep 20, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it...
