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I seek to be a follower of Jesus in the Jesus community. When we by faith receive Jesus as Savior and Lord, we also become members of his community in mission to and for the world.
Jesus Community Blog
4h ago
Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “Go now to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there, for I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” So he set out and went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the town, a widow was there gathering sticks; he called to her and ..read more
Jesus Community Blog
14h ago
Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “Go now to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there, for I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” So he set out and went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the town, a widow was there gathering sticks; he called to her and ..read more
Jesus Community Blog
1d ago
He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8; NRSVue Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are ..read more
Jesus Community Blog
2d ago
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them ..read more
Jesus Community Blog
3d ago
And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. Revelation 17:6a; NRSVue Reading the poetry of the Bible, like in the Psalms and in Revelation has been regularly abused, turned into something other than what was intended in the poetry. The insistence ..read more
Jesus Community Blog
5d ago
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I tell you? I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them. That one is like a man building a house who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when a flood arose, the ..read more
Jesus Community Blog
5d ago
Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long. Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help. When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their ..read more
Jesus Community Blog
6d ago
For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross. Colossians 1:19-20; NRSVue We happen to be living in a tumultuous, threatening time, and there’s no end to ..read more
Jesus Community Blog
1w ago
“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the LORD your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy, so that you and your children and your children’s children may fear the LORD your God all the days of your life and keep all his decrees and ..read more
Jesus Community Blog
1w ago
“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the LORD your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy, so that you and your children and your children’s children may fear the LORD your God all the days of your life and keep all his decrees and ..read more