Archive for December, 2009

Daily Light for December 31

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Morning
“The LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.”
“I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.”—In his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.—Like [...]

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Daily Light for December 30

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Morning
Guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and [...]

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Daily Light for December 29

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Morning
Understand what the will of the Lord is.
For this is the will of God, your sanctification.—“Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.”—“And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”—And we know that the Son of God has [...]

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Daily Light for December 28

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Morning
“Your sins are forgiven.”
“For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”—“Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.”—Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is [...]

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Daily Light for December 27

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Morning
We look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
For here we have no lasting city.—You knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
“Fear not, little flock, for it [...]

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Daily Light for December 26

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Morning
Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.
Knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.—As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.—“But the one who endures to [...]

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Daily Light for December 25

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Morning
The goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared.
“I have loved you with an everlasting love.”
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that [...]

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Daily Light for December 24

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Morning
For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, . . . and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such [...]

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Daily Light for December 23

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Morning
“Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me.”
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness and not for evil.”—“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near [...]

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Daily Light for December 22

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Morning
Your work of faith.
“This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.—Faith working through love.—For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit [...]

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