Category: 21-day Challenge
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LOVE
The end of all things is near. Therefore … above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:7-8 The end of all things is near, so put your energy and passion into the one thing we have now that’s eternal — the reason why we exist — the…
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The always new covenant
“But this is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day,” says the Lord. “I will put my laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will; be their God, and they will be my people. And they will not need to teach their neighbors,…
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So are you ready to step out?
by Marti Fischer Are we willing to be bold, which is the inevitable result of trust in God — trust in the new covenant — where everything comes from God and nothing comes from us? Boldness. Honesty. Confidence. These are the quiet inner characteristics of those whose strength is in the Lord. But you won’t…
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Is there a theology of weakness?
I’ll never forget a meeting I had a few years ago with a student life administrator at a local Christian university. He was young and had a PhD, which I thought was a little over-qualification for a campus pastoral job. I was looking for an opportunity to speak on campus and he was the one…
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Life at work in you
We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is…
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The fine print of the Christian life
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 2 Corinthians 4:8-10 We are now turning to a portion of the new…
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Jars of clay
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 2 Corinthians 4:7 There’s that “But” again. Remember 2 Corinthians 2:14, “But thanks be to God…”? As it was there, the “But” is the key. It sets up the whole thing. It indicates that this…
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The light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ
For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:5-6 We do…
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Why doesn’t everyone get it?
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 No wonder it’s so…
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Living without a veil
What’s is it like living without a veil? It’s freeing … liberating. You don’t have to be something you’re not. You don’t have to make up anything. You don’t have to impress. You don’t have to follow the rules. (There are no rules.) You don’t have to hide anything, because you don’t have anything to…
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Losing my religion
But whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 2 Corinthians 3:16 A song for when you turn to the Lord: I used to think that I was right A lonely candle in the night And while the heart of the world was breaking I could not feel the aching The…
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Dull minds, veiled hearts
But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. 2 Corinthians 3:14-15 This is where religion comes from.…
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Nothing to hide
Day 9 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away. 2 Corinthians 3:12-13 Last Friday was Marti’s birthday and I cruised right on by it. Not…
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Two ways to the glory of God
The old way, with laws etched in stone, led to death, though it began with such glory that the people of Israel could not bear to look at Moses’ face. For his face shone with the glory of God, even though the brightness was already fading away. Shouldn’t we expect far greater glory under the new…
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The key to the Spirit
Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 2 Corinthians 3:4-6 Stick the key in and turn it.…
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Who’s going to read your letter?
Are we beginning to praise ourselves again? Are we like others, who need to bring you letters of recommendation, or who ask you to write such letters on their behalf? Surely not! The only letter of recommendation we need is you yourselves. Your lives are a letter written in our hearts; everyone can read it and recognize…
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Those First Century televangelists
Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God. 2 Corinthians 2:17 The key to this verse, indeed the key to the whole New Covenant ministry, is sincerity. As you can tell from this verse,…
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“Death and doom” or “a life-giving perfume”
To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume. And who is adequate for such a task as this? 2 Corinthians 2:16 You’re at a party and you strike up a conversation with someone you haven’t met before.…
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It’s entirely a God thing
GET MORE FROM YOUR CATCH. WATCH TODAY’S VIDEO! LINK IS BELOW. But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved…
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Captives to victory
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. 2 Corinthians 2:14 I think it’s the most important “but” in the Bible. No, I’m not talking about anyone’s posterior; I’m talking about the conjunction. Paul has…