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Time, Listening & Trust are True Acts of Love

Richard Angulo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:16:00 +0000

Oh how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice of the royal prophet: “Today if you hear God’s voice, harden not your heart.” Let us not put off for one moment to another what we “should” do, because the next moment is not yet ours!

— St. Pio of Pietrelcina

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Parables of Jesus – Dives and Lazarus, or Lazarus and Dives, also called The Rich Man and the Beggar Lazarus Luke 16:19-31

Richard Angulo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:39:57 +0000

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Parables of Jesus – Dives and Lazarus, or Lazarus and Dives, also called The Rich Man and the Beggar Lazarus Luke 16:19-31

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Today In The Word Devotional For 12/09/2009 – LOVE ONE ANOTHER

Richard Angulo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:28:48 +0000

Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.
1 Peter 2:2

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Read: 1 Peter 1:22-2:3

TODAY IN THE WORD

The word love is common today. From glib declarations in a Hallmark card to the newest pop song’s promise, “I will love U 4ever,” the idea of love has become devoid of meaning. A mere sentimentality, contemporary notions of love often express infatuation, lust, or need-driven feelings. So when we come to the call in today’s passage to “love one another,” it’s easy to miss the challenge in Peter’s exhortation.

Earlier, holiness was urged through self-control over evil desires (1 Peter 1:13—16). Now the exhortation to holiness continues with a call to love. The Christian life is not just internal; it is also about relationships with others. The call is explicit: “love one another deeply, from the heart” (1:22). And it’s worth noting that the word “deeply” might better be translated “extensively” or “earnestly.” It’s the same word used to describe Jesus’ longing prayer in Gethsemane (Luke 22:44).

This positive call to relational love is then repeated from the negative side in 2:1. All the named vices that we are called to extinguish from our lives are nothing less than attitudes and behaviors that lack love. Where there is “malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander,” there can be no love in the community (2:2). This is no superficial call to niceness or civility, but rather to an earnest, sincere attitude and action of care among the Christian family.

Scripture also reveals the foundation of this new life of love. Our reading begins with a reminder that we have been purified already through obedience to the truth (1:22). The remainder of our passage makes it clear that the obedience Peter has in mind is the believer’s faithful response to the gospel proclamation, the “word that was preached to you” (1:25). Compared to all other living things, which eventually wither and die, God’s word is “living and enduring” (1:23). That creative, life-giving word of God which brought all things into existence is the same word now in us. It purifies, renews, and empowers us to live a life of true love.

TODAY ALONG THE WAY

The call to love is not static; it requires attitude and action. But today’s passage adds another ingredient necessary for Christian growth: nourishment, what Peter calls “pure spiritual milk” (2:2). So important is this spiritual food that he compares us to a hungry infant craving to be fed. Do you see the growth of true love in your own spiritual life? If not, perhaps you need to recommit yourself to the regular spiritual nourishment of God’s Word. Don’t just taste it; feed on it, and grow!

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MBI – Today in the Word – Jesus said, “Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matt 4:19)

RichardAngulo — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:34:00 +0000

I believe now is a time we need to fight to keep God in us, in our family, in our Country; we need to be and be looking for Servant Leaders! Today’s devotional highlighted to phrases I keep close every moment and wanted to share.

Read: 2 Corinthians 4:1-6

God . . . made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. – 2 Corinthians 4:6

TODAY IN THE WORD
Several years ago, fishing in the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois, Tim Pruitt landed a 124-pound blue catfish. It took Pruitt more than half an hour to land the giant fish, which measured 58 inches long and 44 inches around. About as large as a sixth-grader, it broke the world record by two-and-a-half pounds and the state record by nearly twenty pounds. The huge catfish was kept alive, put on display at a Cabela’s Outfitter store in Kansas City, and later returned to the river.

Jesus said, “Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matt 4:19). As we also see in today’s reading, God is glorified when we share the light of the gospel with those living in darkness. When Paul wrote, “we have this ministry,” he meant all believers (v. 1; see 3:18) and the new covenant (see 3:6). That means we are all responsible for spreading the good news.

The basis for our calling is not our own abilities or effectiveness but God’s mercy. Our evangelistic “method” is simple—“setting forth the truth plainly” (v. 2). We do not need deceptions, distortions, or marketing tricks.

In fact, we cannot “convert” anyone. That is the work of the Holy Spirit, with the ultimate choice between the individual and God. Because unbelievers are spiritually blind, the gospel is veiled or concealed from their understanding (vv. 3-4). In addition, Satan takes an active role in further blinding their hearts and minds to the “light of the gospel of the glory of Christ.”

God’s hand is needed for any evangelism to be successful. This is why our goal in witnessing can only be to “commend ourselves to every man’s conscience” (v. 2). Therefore, while we’re passionate about sharing the good news, we need not fret about unbelievers’ unresponsiveness. It’s not about us (v. 5). God is the source of spiritual light and power in our witness, and He is the One who gives life (v. 6).

TODAY ALONG THE WAY
Have you caught any fish lately? Have you been baiting your hook well? Do the fish even know you’re there? These questions aren’t really about fishing, of course, but about evangelism. While God is the only One who can awaken belief in spiritually dead hearts, we have been commanded to be part of this process by sharing the gospel (Matt. 28:19-20). God is pleased to use us as His children to tell others of the good news of salvation in Christ. What a privilege!

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