Month: March 2011

Life Notes—March 31, 2011 “For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light.  Live as children of light—for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.  Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord.  Take no part in the unfruitful works … Continue reading Unpleasant Odors

Life Notes—March 24, 2011 “A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ‘Give me a drink.’  The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?’  Jesus answered her, ‘If you knew the gift of God, and who it … Continue reading The Wrong Question

Life Notes—March 17, 2011 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.  He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.”  … Continue reading Being Born Again

Life Notes—March 10, 2011  He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished.  The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”  But he answered, “It is written, ’One does not live by bread alone, but by every word … Continue reading Endings and Beginnings

Life Notes—March 3, 2011 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.  The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.” … Continue reading Resilient Foundations