Articles Tagged 'Red' (Page 2)

Red to Honor, White to Remember

by Phillip Morrison · Proverbs 31 · Mothers

Phillip Morrison offers Encouraging Words about Mother's Day and the red or white flowers we wear in honor and to remember our mothers.

What will you do to remember and honor your mother?

Precious and Priceless

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · 1 Peter 1:18-19 · Redemption

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us just how precious we are to the Lord and how greatly we matter to Him.

The value of a gift isn't the financial expense of the gift but the personal sacrifice made to give it!

Eyes on Jesus

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Hebrews 12:2

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware share a powerful virtual worship in Scripture, songs, and communion focused on Hebrews 12:2 and our need to fix our eyes on Jesus to continue with perseverance and endurance as we follow Jesus and seek to become like him.

As human beings, we live where we look: Our lives follow the focus of our hearts.

Give Him What You Have

by Max Lucado · John 6 · Ethics · Able · Enough

Max Lucado reminds us with Jesus' feeding of the crowd with five barley loaves and two fish that it is his job to make what we have sufficient for the moment.

You know the paralyzing fear that surfaces when the information is too much to learn, the change is too great to make, the grief is too deep to survive, or the crowd is too numerous to feed.

Willing 2-B-Crucibled

by Ron Rose · Romans 8:28-29 · Faith · Abba Father

Ron Rose reminds us that true faith has to go through the B-crucible to be real and lasting.

Ever notice that the most challenging madness happens right on the border of the Promised Land?

God Resists the Proud

by Max Lucado · Daniel 4

Max Lucado reminds us of the high price of our pride.

Pride comes at a high price, my friend. Don’t pay it.

Starting Over Having Learned Lessons from the Past

by Melissa Troyer · Jeremiah 6:16 · Motherhood · Starting over

Melissa Troyer combines her journey through motherhood, her realization of inadequacy, her belief in God's sufficiency, and the willingness to teach using our own failures.

We AREN'T enough, but He is. It is the goodness of the Lord that brings us nose-to-nose with our desperate need for Him.

God of Fresh Starts

by Max Lucado · Romans 15:13 · Hope

Max Lucado reminds us that the God of hope gives us fresh starts just as he did to Noah with the olive leaf and the dove.

Hope is an olive leaf — evidence of dry land after a flood.

The Cosmic Christmas Story

by Dan Bouchelle · Revelation 12 · Christmas · Satan · Advent

Dan Bouchelle reminds us of another story of the nativity, a violent one, a clash between heaven and hell, good and evil, the evil red dragon and the Christ child.

Don't forget the wildest story, the cosmic war story, behind Jesus' coming to earth!

Strategy for the End Times

by Phil Ware · Matthew 24:1-51 · Parousia

Phil Ware focuses on what we need to do, and who we need to be, by looking at six intersections with our world during these last days as we await the return of Jesus, the glorious Son of Man!

I may never untangle every nuance of Jesus' prophecies about the destruction of Jerusalem and HIS coming at the end of time but I can be ready!

Before the Red Sea Parts

by Melissa Troyer · Joshua 24:5-7

Melissa Troyes writes with beauty about God’s touches of grace on a trip to New England with her family as she wrestles with the grief over an aunt who is gone too soon and the uncertainty of the future of her family and where they will live.

Life is as full of beauty as it is uncertainty if we open our eyes to see the divine fingerprints of grace.

The Good News of Jesus Begins with a Servant

by Phil Ware · Mark 1:1-8,2:1-12 · Joy · John the Baptizer

Phil Ware continues his reflections on his gospel studies and shares how we can become JesuShaped by becoming servants like John the Baptizer and four friends.

Jesus emphasized that the greatest in the Kingdom of God is a servant, and then defined his personal mission as serving those who are lost.

Waiting in Expectation

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Romans 8:19-38 · Jesus coming

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us of God's greatness and Jesus' promise to take us home to the Father and reveal us as God's adopted children and heal our broken wo

We trust in Jesus' promise to return in victory for us and bring God's new heaven and new earth.

Three Easy Ways To Help Service Members in Your Community

by Rhonda Underhill · Romans 12:13 · Help

Rhonda Underhill shares simple ways to help active service members and veterans with their adjustments to civilian life and provides many good links to services and resources that are helpful.

Living in a civilian world after being in service can be a tough transition, but with support from their community and friends like you, a service member's life can be much easier to navigate.

Set Free!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Romans 8:1-2 · Freedom

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to celebrate our identity in Christ and remind us that we are freed from law-keeping as our way of being righteous and celebrate our identity a

As we worship together, we celebrate our freedom in Christ and invite the Holy Spirit to continue his work of transforming us!

The Shear

by Phil Ware · Matthew 22:34-40

Phil Ware continues his series on becoming JesuShaped disciples.

We are called to live in the strong currents where Jesus' Kingdom meets the world and those trapped by darkness, and we need to know there is both danger and richness as we live in 'The Shear.'

What Is Our Blindspot?

by · John 9 · Prejudice

Jordan Reese shares a poignant piece of writing by her dad as she thinks through our blindspots and calls us to seek first Jesus' Kingdom and that righteousness, not our own biases.

Since it's a blind spot, no matter how hard you try you can't see what you should be seeing.

Inviting Jesus to Come Alive in Us

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 · Christlikeness

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware share a DIY worship plan with a message, songs, and other resources in YouTuube video format and including a communion devotional by Rubel Shelly.

God bless us all as we seek to let the grace of Jesus shine through us and touch those around us.

When the Cost Is too High!

by Max Lucado · Matthew 16:24-26 · Greed

Max Lucado reminds us the real price tag for greed.

If anything costs you your family or your faith, the price is too high!

Overcoming the Power of Hatred

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Proverbs 10:12 · Reconciliation

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to be people of reconciliation, forgiveness, and grace, just like our Savior!

We commit to be Jesus-shaped people, people who leave the world a different and better place than we found it.

The Way of Jesus #5: Because of Love

by James Nored & Phil Ware · Mark 14:34-35 · Crucifixion

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that Jesus gave his life for us because of his love for us and his unwillingness to leave us in sin and how his love defined

Why would the sinless Son give himself, surrender his life and his dignity, to save those who were ungodly, helpless, sinners, and enemies of God?

The Way of Jesus #1: Truly See the Coming King

by James Nored & Phil Ware · Mark 8:29 · Triumphal Entry

James Nored and Phil Ware share the significance of Jesus' Triumphal Entry as they begin a special Holy Week series.

When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked,

To the Girl on the Elevator

by Teresa Bell Kindred · James 5:16

Teresa Bell Kindred shares an emotional story from her experience caring for her husband in his two-plus month battle with COVID-19 and invites us to pray God's blessing into the life of an unknown young wife whose husband is in ICU.

I wish I could have hugged the girl on the elevator.

Overcoming the Greater Pandemic: Have You Been to the Mountaintop?

by James Nored & Phil Ware · Matthew 1:23 · Joy

Phil Ware and James Nored speak to the isolation pandemic accompanying COVID-19 and share ways and invite us to share ways to find joy and hope on the mountain with Immanuel.

Many feel as if they are caught in some kind of auto-repeating Groundhog Day experience with COVID-19.

Bringing God's Grace through Love and Prayer

by Phil Ware · Ephesians 3:14-21 · Prayer

Phil Ware shares Scriptures, stories, and ideas to help us prepare for the hour of worldwide unified prayer for our broken world, especially focused on love and prayer as a source of hope for our broken world.