7Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’ face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside, 8how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory? 9For if there was…
Author: theministryofsimplekindness
The Word of God: Malachi 4:1-6 – February 23, 2020
1See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise,…
Psalm of the Day – February 22, 2020 (Psalm 118)
1 O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;his steadfast love endures forever! 2 Let Israel say,“His steadfast love endures forever.”3 Let the house of Aaron say,“His steadfast love endures forever.”4 Let those who fear the LORD say,“His steadfast love endures forever.” 5 Out of my distress I called on the LORD;the LORD…
The Word of God: John 11:1-16 – February 22, 2020
1Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. 3So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4But…
The Word of God: 1 John 3:11-18 – February 22, 2020
11For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12We must not be like Cain who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. 13Do not be astonished, brothers and…
The Word of God: Genesis 35:1-20 – February 22, 2020
1God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” 2So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves,…
Psalm of the Day – February 21, 2020 (Psalm 139)
1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me. 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;you discern my thoughts from far away.3 You search out my path and my lying down,and are acquainted with all my ways.4 Even before a word is on my tongue,O LORD, you know it…
The Word of God: John 10:31-42 – February 21, 2020
31The Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?” 33The Jews answered, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only…
The Word of God: 1 John 3:1-10 – February 21, 2020
1See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do…
The Word of God: Genesis 32:22-33:17 – February 21, 2020
22The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. 24Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25When the man…