12stone Camp Devotional

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Relentless Love: Reflections on the Book of Jonah

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Prayer Works - Vol. 1: Praying at All Times

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BEMA Liturgy I — Part D

Christian Foundations 10 - Beliefs Part 2

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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2PE.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2PE.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Bear in mind that our Lord&#8217;s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2PE.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2PE.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2PE.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2PE.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, since through God&#8217;s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone&#8217;s conscience in the sight of God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus&#8217; sake. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For God, who said, &#8220;Let light shine out of darkness,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:6 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 1:3</span></span></span><span class="content"> made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God&#8217;s glory displayed in the face of Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GAL.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GAL.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GAL.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GAL.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GAL.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GAL.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GAL.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GAL.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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