Peace that overcomes fear
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
Why persecution and martyrdom?
…in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.
Prisoner of Jesus Christ
I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles…
Jesus is worth it all
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
Visions of Jesus – Messiah
Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
God knows what it is like to lose a child
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Stop making God “safe”
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.”
The supremacy of Jesus Christ
“What is mankind that you are mindful of them, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the angels, you crowned him with glory and honor and put everything under his feet.” In putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.
Drawn to Jesus
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day…”
Worth following
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will
fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me.