Hey! As today is the last day of August, tomorrow starts a new month, which means we have a new extended passage for September!
Colossians 3:1-17
It teaches us how we can enhance our Christian lives and become more holy like God.
The two verses for this week (August 31st - September 6th) are:
Romans 6:23
Ephesians 2:8-9
I hope everyone has a wonderful second week (or first or third week) of school and I pray that you live and shine at school for Christ! Carry the death of Jesus with you so that His life may be in you too and show it!! :D
Love,
Kaitlyn
Monday, August 31, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Verses for this last week
Well, the verses for this last week (August 24-30) were:
1Peter 3:15
Romans 3:23
For the next few weeks, we are going to be memorizing verses to help us share the gospel of Christ with people. These are so important to know! So we are starting with Romans 3:23.
Love,
Kaitlyn
1Peter 3:15
Romans 3:23
For the next few weeks, we are going to be memorizing verses to help us share the gospel of Christ with people. These are so important to know! So we are starting with Romans 3:23.
Love,
Kaitlyn
Monday, August 17, 2009
Week 4! New verses!
It's almost been a month since the ETC Revolution launched and I've already seen God working in others lives, in my life, through others and through me! I've grown closer to some and gotten to know others. And it hasn't been me that has taken the time to go up to people and gotten to know them. It's all been God working in me. Since I allow Him to work in me, He's been able to work through me. :D
New verses!!
Isaiah 50:10
Matthew 7:13-14
Keep on going with memorizing these verses!! Don't let your weaknesses keep you from taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ!! Lean on Him and keep going!! :D
Love ya'll!
Kaitlyn
New verses!!
Isaiah 50:10
Matthew 7:13-14
Keep on going with memorizing these verses!! Don't let your weaknesses keep you from taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ!! Lean on Him and keep going!! :D
Love ya'll!
Kaitlyn
Saturday, August 15, 2009
New Verses
Ok. So this is VERY late and I apologize for that.
The verses for the 3rd week, August 10-16, are:
Collossians 3:14
"And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony." (ESV)
Mark 12:30-31
"And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these." (ESV)
And the extended passage for August is still 2 Corinthians 4.
Love ya'll!
Kaitlyn
The verses for the 3rd week, August 10-16, are:
Collossians 3:14
"And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony." (ESV)
Mark 12:30-31
"And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these." (ESV)
And the extended passage for August is still 2 Corinthians 4.
Love ya'll!
Kaitlyn
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Christ - Like Fragrance
Good morning! This morning, I read 2 Corinthians 2.
What really stuck out to me today was the last bit, verses 14-17:
"(14)But thank God! He has made us his captives and continues to lead us along in Christ's triumphal procession. Now he uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, like a sweet perfume. (15)Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. (16)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?
(17)You see, we are not like the many hunksters who preach for personal profit. We preach the word of God with sincerity and with Christ's authority, knowing that God is watching us."
There were two things that stuck out to me this morning.
1. Our Christ-like 'fragrance' that we should have is so different from this world that peop
le of the world are not going to like us AT ALL. When they see/smell us, they smell "...a dreadful smell of death and doom...". How sad is that?
But that is just Satan working in them so they won't want to smell the fresh, Christ-like fragrance.
But God's side has several advantages to this. First of all, we have God on our side so we don't have to worry about anything! :D Second, since we are such a complete opposite from this world, it's easier for nonbelievers to see the drastic difference from the world and God in us. However, this comes with incredible responsibility on our part to actually obey God and shine for Him. But as long as we trust in God and focus our minds on Him, we will start being smelled as the "...life-giving perfume" that we really are, as we remain in God.
2. We cannot go around saying that we're Christ-like if we "...preach for personal profit." That, first of all, is not good for us because "...God is watching us." Also, we are not being Christ-like if we are looking for personal gain, and the world won't see that much difference in us from them. That is something we definetely do not want and God doesn't either.
Instead of preaching for personal gain (this could mean money, fame, reputation, etc.), preach "...Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as...servants for Jesus' sake." (2 Corinthians 4:5) Also, "preach the word of God with sincerity and with Christ's authority..." while "...knowing that God is watching [you]."
Give God ALL the Glory!
Love ya'll!
Kaitlyn
What really stuck out to me today was the last bit, verses 14-17:
"(14)But thank God! He has made us his captives and continues to lead us along in Christ's triumphal procession. Now he uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, like a sweet perfume. (15)Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. (16)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?
(17)You see, we are not like the many hunksters who preach for personal profit. We preach the word of God with sincerity and with Christ's authority, knowing that God is watching us."
There were two things that stuck out to me this morning.
1. Our Christ-like 'fragrance' that we should have is so different from this world that peop
le of the world are not going to like us AT ALL. When they see/smell us, they smell "...a dreadful smell of death and doom...". How sad is that?But that is just Satan working in them so they won't want to smell the fresh, Christ-like fragrance.
But God's side has several advantages to this. First of all, we have God on our side so we don't have to worry about anything! :D Second, since we are such a complete opposite from this world, it's easier for nonbelievers to see the drastic difference from the world and God in us. However, this comes with incredible responsibility on our part to actually obey God and shine for Him. But as long as we trust in God and focus our minds on Him, we will start being smelled as the "...life-giving perfume" that we really are, as we remain in God.
2. We cannot go around saying that we're Christ-like if we "...preach for personal profit." That, first of all, is not good for us because "...God is watching us." Also, we are not being Christ-like if we are looking for personal gain, and the world won't see that much difference in us from them. That is something we definetely do not want and God doesn't either.
Instead of preaching for personal gain (this could mean money, fame, reputation, etc.), preach "...Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as...servants for Jesus' sake." (2 Corinthians 4:5) Also, "preach the word of God with sincerity and with Christ's authority..." while "...knowing that God is watching [you]."
Give God ALL the Glory!
Love ya'll!
Kaitlyn
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
You Can't Give Someone Something You Don't Have
So last night my family and I watched the movie, Fireproof.
If you haven't seen it, it's about how God heals a marriage that is plummeting downward when the husband surrenders to Him. It's a great movie about how different and more fulfilling your life is when you let God into your life.
Anyway, my favorite scene in the movie is when Caleb and his dad are in front of the cross and Caleb's dad asks Caleb, "If I were to ask you what bothers you so much about Catherine (Caleb's wife), what would you say?" Caleb goes off on this big list of things, starting with "She's so stubborn" and ending with something like, 'No matter how much I show her I love her, she keeps rejecting me.'
Right after he says that, Caleb looks up and his father is standing right below the cross. Caleb was doing that same thing to God; rejecting Him for other things no matter how much love God showed him.
So Caleb surrenders everything to the Lord right then. It's such an amazing scene.
One thing that Caleb's father says is, 'You can't show her your love if you don't have any.'
This is so true. People that don't know God's love don't really know what love is and, therefore, can't show love to other people. So that's why some people fall in love for very wrong reasons, or some stop showing their love to their spouse after they get married, thinking that they've reached the goal by marrying them.
So today, I started reading through 2 Corinthians. I just studied the first half of the first chapter, digging into the words a lot. In verse 4, it says:
"He (God) comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us."
These are the same things.
We can't give others our love or comfort or help if we don't accept God's love or comfort or help that He is always offering to us. If we don't recieve any, we don't have anything to give.
Love ya'll!
~Kaitlyn
If you haven't seen it, it's about how God heals a marriage that is plummeting downward when the husband surrenders to Him. It's a great movie about how different and more fulfilling your life is when you let God into your life.
Anyway, my favorite scene in the movie is when Caleb and his dad are in front of the cross and Caleb's dad asks Caleb, "If I were to ask you what bothers you so much about Catherine (Caleb's wife), what would you say?" Caleb goes off on this big list of things, starting with "She's so stubborn" and ending with something like, 'No matter how much I show her I love her, she keeps rejecting me.'
Right after he says that, Caleb looks up and his father is standing right below the cross. Caleb was doing that same thing to God; rejecting Him for other things no matter how much love God showed him.
So Caleb surrenders everything to the Lord right then. It's such an amazing scene.
One thing that Caleb's father says is, 'You can't show her your love if you don't have any.'
This is so true. People that don't know God's love don't really know what love is and, therefore, can't show love to other people. So that's why some people fall in love for very wrong reasons, or some stop showing their love to their spouse after they get married, thinking that they've reached the goal by marrying them.
So today, I started reading through 2 Corinthians. I just studied the first half of the first chapter, digging into the words a lot. In verse 4, it says:
"He (God) comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us."
These are the same things.
We can't give others our love or comfort or help if we don't accept God's love or comfort or help that He is always offering to us. If we don't recieve any, we don't have anything to give.
Love ya'll!
~Kaitlyn
New Week = New Verses!
Hey guys! Welp, the first week is over but that means the second week is beginning!
The verses for this week of August 3rd - 9th are:
1 Peter 5:10 (verse 9 if you can too!)
Galatians 2:20
And our chapter passage to memorize till the end of August is
2 Corinthians 4
If anyone needs help, prayer, or anything else, let me know!
-Kaitlyn
The verses for this week of August 3rd - 9th are:
1 Peter 5:10 (verse 9 if you can too!)
Galatians 2:20
And our chapter passage to memorize till the end of August is
2 Corinthians 4
If anyone needs help, prayer, or anything else, let me know!
-Kaitlyn
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