5 For I was born a sinner— yes, from the moment my mother conceived me. (Psalm 51:5) 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you. (Psalm 51:12) 17 A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit. 18 A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and…
35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as…
1 Look here, you rich people: Weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you. 2 Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. The very wealth you were counting on will eat away your flesh like fire. This corroded treasure you have…
If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them. (James 4:17)
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into…
13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known…
Listen as Pastor Bill Spencer shares how God has orchestrated for Eastwood Church to help coordinate a connection between Training Pastors International and Makumbi Johnson and his church and ministry in Uganda. The team shares the vision for the next 3 years.
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the…
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears…
But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. (Luke 5:16) One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. (Luke 6:12) At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. (Luke 4:42) About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and…
