Discipleship

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Luke 10:25-42 New Revised Standard Version The Parable of the Good Samaritan 25 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 He said […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read Psalm 119:169-176 New Revised Standard Version 169 Let my cry come before you, O Lord;    give me understanding according to your word.170 Let […]

Focus Turn off your cell phone, TV, or radio. Listen to the silence that is around you. Listen for God to speak to you. Read Psalm 15:1-3 New Revised Standard Version A Psalm of David. 1 O Lord, who may abide in your tent?    Who may dwell on your holy hill? 2 Those who walk blamelessly, and do what […]

Focus Be still and rest in the Lord. Read Psalm 5:7-8 New Revised Standard Version 7 But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,    will enter your house,I will bow down toward your holy temple    in awe of you.8 Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness    because of my enemies;    make your way straight before me. Reflect One of the challenges […]

Focus Take a few minutes to push the “pause” button on whatever is going on around you and be still with God. Read Luke 9:51-62 New Revised Standard Version 51 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers ahead of him. On […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God, however that may take place. Read 2 Timothy 1:3-7 New Revised Standard Version Thanksgiving and Encouragement 3 I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read 1 John 3:11-19 New Revised Standard Version Love One Another 11 For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 We must not be like Cain […]

Focus Stop and thank God for being present with you today. Ask for God’s guidance as you hear God’s voice through scripture and the writer. Read 1 John 5 New Revised Standard Version Faith Conquers the World 5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Matthew 22:34-40 New Revised Standard Version The Greatest Commandment 34 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, 35 and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to […]

Focus Stop and thank God for being present with you today. Ask for God’s guidance as you hear God’s voice through scripture and the writer. Read Luke 12:57-59 New Revised Standard Version Settling with Your Opponent 57 “And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right? 58 Thus, when you go with your accuser before a […]