A Sip of Scripture @ Third Way Cafe (Third Way Media)

REIGN OF GOD

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:00:00 EST

Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you."

Full context: Judges 8:23

Announce

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:00:00 EST

Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you; cure the sick who are there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’

Full context: Luke 10: 8-9

Appoint

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:00:00 EST

After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

Full context: Luke 10: 1-2

Receive

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:00:00 EST

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

Full context: 1 Peter 2: 10-11

Obey

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:00:00 EST

To you then who believe, he is precious; but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the very head of the corner,” and “A stone that makes them stumble, and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Full context: 1 Peter 2: 7-9

Believe

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:00:00 EST

For it stands in scripture: “See, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

Full context: 1 Peter 2: 6

See

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:00:00 EST

And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

Full context: John 1:14

Illuminate

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:00:00 EST

I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.

Full context: Isaiah 49: 6 b

Commit

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:00:00 EST

For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life?

Full context: Mark 8: 37

Follow

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:00:00 EST

He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.”

Full context: Mark 8: 34-36