Psalm 38:11 (NLT)

11 My loved ones and friends stay away, fearing my disease.
     Even my own family stands at a distance.

 Psalm 142:4  (NLT)

4 I look for someone to come and help me,
     but no one gi…

 Psalm 106:44  (NLT)

44 Even so, he pitied them in their distress
     and listened to their cries.

 Before you can care, you’ve got to be aware. You have to pay attention. You have to put up your anten…

John 13:35 The Passion Translation (TPT)

35 For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another, everyone will know that you’re my true followers.”

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2 Corinthians 8:1-9 (NLT)

A Call to Generous Giving
8 Now I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, what God in his kindness has done through the churches in Macedonia. 2 They are being tested by …

Isaiah 58:10-11 (NLT)

10 Feed the hungry,

    and help those in trouble.

Then your light will shine out from the darkness,

    and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.

11 The Lord will guide…

Acts 6 New Living Translation (NLT)

Seven Men Chosen to Serve
6 But as the believers rapidly multiplied, there were rumblings of discontent. The Greek-speaking believers complained about the Hebrew-spe…

Deuteronomy 24:10-15 (NLT)

10 “If you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to pick up the item he is giving as security. 11 You must wait outside while he goes in and brings it out t…

Psalm 41:1 (NKJV)

41 Blessed is he who considers the poor;

The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

You may have heard of the blessings Jesus spoke of in His Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-10). H…

Proverbs 29:7 (NKJV)

7 The righteous considers the cause of the poor,

But the wicked does not understand such knowledge.

The year was 1780, and Robert Raikes had a burden for the poor, illiterate childr…

1 Peter 4:10-11(NLT)

10 God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. 11 Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God hi…

Titus 1:5-9  (NLT)

5 I left you on the island of Crete so you could complete our work there and appoint elders in each town as I instructed you. 6 An elder must live a blameless life. He must be faith…

2 Timothy 2:2  (NLT)

2 You have heard me teach things that have been confirmed by many reliable witnesses. Now teach these truths to other trustworthy people who will be able to pass them on to others…

Matthew 20:28 
“The Son of Man did not come to be served. He came to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many people.”

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1 Peter 2:12 (ICB)

12 People who do not believe are living all around you. They might say that you are doing wrong. So live good lives. Then they will see the good things you do, and they will give gl…

Hebrews 10:24 (AMP)

24 and let us consider [thoughtfully] how we may encourage one another to love and to do good deeds,

“A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of …

1 Timothy 4:12 (NLT)

12 Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.

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Our natural tendency is to hate our enemies or at least to avoid them at all cost. But if you run from conflict, you’re going to be miserable most of your life. Jesus calls us to a higher standard. H…

Matthew 18:21-35 (ICB)
When the US Civil War ended in 1865, more than half a million soldiers lay dead, the economy and infrastructure of the nation was shattered, and people remained deeply divided p…

“Search for peace, and work to maintain it” (1 Peter 3:11 NLT). 

Today I want to help by giving some practical advice about how to help during a time of relationship conflict and that is to  emphasize…

“First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye” (Matthew 7:5 NLT). 

OK, so this week we so far we have been focusing on reconcilia…