Bible Verse of the Day: Scripture quotes to inspire your faith in God today.

Bible Verse of the Day | Matthew 25:53-54 | A verse about Jesus' task

Welcome to Bible verse of the day. I am Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you and this holy week April 5 we’re going to turn to our gospel that we call Matthew we’re going to read from chapter 25 verses 53 to 54 think that I cannot appeal to my father and he will at once send me more than 12 legions of angels, but how then with the Scriptures be fulfilled which say it must happen in this way Jesus knows everything that’s happening is not what anyone wants but it is what we need and why we struggle to understand that this week. Let’s remember that he could’ve called everything to his defense but that’s not the way we can only be redeemed Israel could only be forgiven if he excepted all the violence all the deceit, all the destruction upon himself, only responding with love and prayer, the other kingdoms of the world they can look pretty inhumane. They can look pretty distorted and ugly, and they can do a lot of vicious damage. We can turn to Daniel to see the images of the kingdoms of the world, but God‘s kingdom looks like a human being being humane loving. This is our Christ.

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

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Welcome to Bible verse of the day. I am Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on April 3 the day after Palm Sunday and as we get into this holy week, we’re gonna start this week off with the gospel recall Matthew chapter 21 verse five tell the daughter of Zion look, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey on a colt, the fall of a donkey Palm Sunday is one of triumphs we celebrate we dance we wave palms we sing loud, but we also know what’s coming is prophecy, quoted by the gospel writer refers to the coming of the king, the good king, the messiah the one meant to come in and redeem Israel to bring everything back to write standing with God, and this King is not coming on the seat of power and might I mean he is but not the kind of might’ve power we picture instead it’s humility it’s gentleness. It’s peace and so while we often look for all the wrong things in the wrong places, Christ comes anyway and if even just for a moment, we see it for what it is right and pure and true and we celebrate.

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

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Welcome to Bible verse of the day I’m Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on this final day of the month of March 3 first Paul’s letter to the church of Ephesus. We’re gonna look at chapter 2 verse 10 for we are what he has made us created in Christ Jesus prayer good works, which God prepared before hand so that we may walk in there, the journey of my faith began when I was a teenager and I’ve been to church all my life but I suddenly realize there was something in me that let me hold me in certain directions and usually always do the better choice the better way and I identified that that wasn’t me. I knew what I wanted to do. I knew what I wanted to justify for myself, but there was something holding me and I had to learn than to trust that I was a God made me to be that I don’t have every gift I don’t have Strength I’m not the best at everything, but there are things that I am good at there are talents that I have gifts that I have been given and now I relinquish control to follow that leading in my heart, because I know that God has prepared the way for me in the living into this life is what a life of being a disciple of Christ is all about.

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

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Welcome to Bible verse of the day. I am Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on March 29 and we’re going to turn to the prophet that we call Isaiah chapter 41 and we’re gonna read verse 10 do not fear for I am with you do not be afraid for I am your God I will strengthen you. I will help you I will uphold you with my victorious right hand. I’m not sure what the Salmas was going through exactly but we can be pretty sure it was bad they were hanging their head. Maybe they had lost hope there was fear there was weakness, and we find this comforting word of God that says none of those ways of looking at the situation are appropriate because I am your God I am yours I belong to you and you belong to me, and if we belong to God and God belongs to us what have we to fear we might be facing difficult moments this week we might be facing the worst of circumstances there might be tragedy there might even be death, but we have God our God, who has proved to us in Jesus Christ, that even the worst life has to throw at us is nothing compared to the power of God

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

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Welcome to Bible verse of the day I’m Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on March 27 as we conclude our focus on first Corinthians chapter 13 verse eight, this beautiful letter of Paul to the church. It reads love, never ends, but as for prophecies, they will come to an end ask for tongues, they will cease ask for knowledge it will come to an end, I don’t know why as people of the church as Christians we can’t help but look at others with a critical eye, especially those who are part of the church to or constantly looking and straining critiquing about what they believe and how they say it, and we end up becoming each other’s own worst enemy if we’re honest and clergy are no exception we’re always evaluating and thinking about how we wouldn’t say it or think it or present it better and maybe that’s just me, but all this knowledge all these ways of trying to improve and be better and be successful it’s all temporary if we have the gift of prophecy if we have the gift of tongues, if we have the gift of knowledge, they will all come to an end so let’s stop giving them all of our energy in Heart and instead focus on the one thing that doesn’t… LOVE

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

Music by The Muse Maker

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

Music by The Muse Maker

Welcome to Bible verse of the day I’m Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on this March 22 and we are continuing in the love chapter Corinthians first Corinthians 13 the letter by Paul here’s verse six love does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. With Christ as the perfect example of a sacrificial self giving love, we should process all that we do through that lines and so we can consider our actions moment to moment day today and we can think on them and wonder are we living in a way that’s in love and if we’re not, then we don’t celebrate in fact, most people don’t write we know when we do things wrong, but I wonder do you rejoice when you reflect the way of Christ because the way of Christ the life of Christ the truth of Christ Christ is the way the truth in the life and so living a life that reflects a Christlike love that is the truth so spend time critiquing and repenting in and working toward growing and being better but when you do something right, when you know you were living into the love of Christ correctly, take time to rejoice in the truth

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

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Welcome to Bible verse of the day I’m Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on March 20 and we’re going to continue in the love chapter 1st Corinthians chapter 13. We started with verse four. We continue today with verse five and it reads love is not rude. Love does not insist on its own way. Love is not irritable love keeps no record of wrongs it’s agape giving of ourselves for another. We understand it rudeness and in looking at each other with scorn it’s just not part of how we operate when we’re in the mood of love when we’re in the action of love we don’t insist on our own way because it’s not about us it’s about us it’s not love love is not irritable because we have grace and we give space, and we know that people are where they are in their journey whether we like it or not, and how many people give us grace how many people are patient with us. We should keep them in mind as we learn to reflect that way for others. We should keep no record of wrongs. If you’re keeping track then you’re not loving your making it about you and your justice so let us in remember that we find our example in Christ who gives us grace and mercy and love right where we are.

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

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Welcome to Bible verse of the day. I am Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on the March 17 and we are going to spend some time in first Corinthians chapter 13 the love chapter so let’s begin in verse four love is patient love is kind love is not envious or boastful or arrogant. This word love we use that word for all sorts of things or family or friends and are tacos right but the word in scripture is agape it means to give of oneself, for another hint means sacrificing of us for another, and expect nothing in return it only does for another out of our goodness out of our desire to be loving someone we read the love chapter about patience, kindness. It doesn’t envy are both it’s not arrogant. It makes sense that’s what agape is in our perfect example of this kind of love is Jesus Christ, who is garden flashing, so God‘s love Chrysler the spirits love is shown to us in the sacrifice for us, expecting nothing in return Salado us become people who love like our God

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

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Welcome to Bible verse of the day. I am Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on this March 15 as we come to the concluding verse of the 23rd psalm and it is verse six and it reads surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord, my whole life long This word for follow me. It’s the word pursue because goodness and mercy pursue us they chase us down, they are after us, because that’s the Lord we serve that’s the Lord we follow always in pursuit of our hearts with goodness and mercy. Sometimes we think God is just sitting and waiting for us to do something wrong so that we can be told all about it, and be made to feel terrible and repentance has a wonderful place in our religious practice, but let us not make a mistake that our lord, the good shepherd pursues us with goodness and mercy, longing for us to dwell in the house of the Lord, our whole lives to be in God‘s presence, to belong to the Lord, to be a child of the Lord, to be siblings of one another to experience, eternal life here and now.

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

Music by The Muse Maker