# First Christian Church

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## Posts

- [Exile Two](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-two/): Another week in exile! For people who are normally busy with good works and occupations, the exile is not normal! We find ourselves immobilized, inert, and certainly bored!! The joy of “unexpected vacation” is certainly hampered by fear and uncertainty. Yet, the certainty of the festival of Easter and the confidence that comes through our faith in an all-loving God helps to ease the burden.
- [Luke 2:15-21](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-215-21/): When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."...
- [Exile One](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-one/): By the Waters of Babylon….Psalm 137:1 And, so begins one of the most desperate, and hopeful Psalms in the whole collection!
- [Philippians 2:5-11](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-25-11/): Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men...
- [Galatians 4:4-7](https://fccgulfport.org/galatians-44-7-2/): But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
- [Psalm 8](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-8/): O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
- [Numbers 6:22-27](https://fccgulfport.org/numbers-622-27/): The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them...
- [Luke 2:22-40](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-222-40/): And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord") and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, "a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons...
- [Psalm 148](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-148/): Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens; praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts!
- [Galatians 4:4-7](https://fccgulfport.org/galatians-44-7/): But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons...
- [Isaiah 61:10-62:3](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-6110-623/): I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- [Isaiah 35:1–10 (NIV)](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-351-10-niv/): The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus; it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing.
- [Isaiah 9:2,6-7](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-926-7/): The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.
- [Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-21-14-15-20/): In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
- [Psalm 96](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-96/): Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.
- [Titus 2:11-14](https://fccgulfport.org/titus-211-14/): For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people.
- [Isaiah 9:2-7](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-92-7/): The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone...
- [Luke 1:26-38](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-126-38/): In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David.
- [Romans 16:25-27](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-1625-27/): Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ...
- [Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-891-4-19-26/): I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. For I said, "Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness."
- [Luke 1:46b-55](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-146b-55-2/): And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.
- [2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16](https://fccgulfport.org/2-samuel-71-11-16/): Now when the king lived in his house and the LORD had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent."
- [John 1:6-8, 19-28](https://fccgulfport.org/john-16-8-19-28/): There was a man sent from God, whose name was John...
- [1 Thessalonians 5:16-24](https://fccgulfport.org/1-thessalonians-516-24/): Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
- [Luke 1:46b-55](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-146b-55/): And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant. Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
- [Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-611-4-8-11/): The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners;
- [Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-851-2-8-13/): Lord, you were favorable to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob...
- [Mark 1:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-11-8/): The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God...
- [2 Peter 3:8-15a](https://fccgulfport.org/2-peter-38-15a/): ut do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day...
- [Isaiah 40:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-401-11/): Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God...
- [Mark 13:24-37](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-1324-37/): "But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light...
- [Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-801-7-17-19/): Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth...
- [Isaiah 64: 1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-64-1-9/): O that you would tear open the heavens and come down so that the mountains would quake at your presence...
- [1 Corinthians 1:3-9](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-13-9/): Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ...
- [Deuteronomy 8: 7-18](https://fccgulfport.org/deuteronomy-8-7-18/): For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills
- [Advent Study](https://fccgulfport.org/advent-study/): Please join us for our four week Advent Study following Ed Robb's "Making Room: Sharing The Love of Christmas". Sunday mornings 9:30 am to 10:30 am. Or find the link on the front page of our website.
- [Judges 4:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/judges-41-7/): 1 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, after Ehud died.
- [Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18](https://fccgulfport.org/zephaniah-17-12-18/): 7 Be silent before the Lord God! For the day of the Lord is at hand; the Lord has prepared a sacrifice, he has consecrated his guests.
- [Psalm 78:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-781-7/): 1 Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
- [Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25](https://fccgulfport.org/joshua-241-3a-14-25/): 1 Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel; and they presented themselves before God.
- [Bunk Bed Project](https://fccgulfport.org/bunk-bed-project/): First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Gulfport built and delivered bunk beds for homes that were preparing to take in displaced foster children.
- [Little Free Library](https://fccgulfport.org/little-free-library/): January 2018 we again teamed up with The Rotary Club of Gulfport-Orange Grove to have a Little Free Library installed on the church property.
- [Stint in the Tent](https://fccgulfport.org/stint-in-the-tent/): In 2017 Loaves and Fishes (a local soup kitchen) held its very first fundraiser in their 33 years of serving the homeless in Biloxi. Volunteers would sleep in a tent at Loaves and Fishes to help raise funds and shed light on the plight of the homeless.
- [Feed My Sheep](https://fccgulfport.org/feed-my-sheep/): Members and friends of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Gulfport prepare and deliver 80 sack lunches to Feed My Sheep the first Sunday of every month. Elders noticed that some of the clients at Feed My Sheep would bring their dogs with them and share their sack lunches with the dogs.
- [Gulf Coast Community Ministries](https://fccgulfport.org/gulf-coast-community-ministries/): We have been supporting GCCM for several years with monthly donations to their food pantry, and clothing closet. Each Thanksgiving we support their Thanksgiving Meal bag drive by collecting dozens of meal bags for distribution to families that might not otherwise have a Thanksgiving meal. The Covid-19 pandemic stressed already scarce resources for the homeless in our community.
- [Micah 6:8 NIV](https://fccgulfport.org/micah-68-niv/): Micah 6:8 NIV He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly[a] with your God.
- [Palm Sunday in Exile](https://fccgulfport.org/palm-sunday-in-exile/): Today is Palm Sunday of 2020 – a day that is marked by great rejoicing and, inevitably, great sorrow and fear.
- [Luke Chapter 1](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-chapter-1/): Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
- [Psalm 113:3 NRSV](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1133-nrsv/): "From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the Lord is to be praised."
- [Packing lunches for Feed my Sheep](https://fccgulfport.org/packing-lunches-for-feed-my-sheep/): Last Sunday we made sack lunches for Feed My Sheep. ALL are welcome to join in this ministry to the least of these.
- [Matthew 8:10](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-810/): When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, 'Truly, I tell you, with no one in Isreal have I found such faith.'
- [Hebrews 11:1](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-111/): Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
- [Proverbs 18:24](https://fccgulfport.org/proverbs-1824/): Some friendships do not last. But some friends are more loyal than brothers.
- [Psalm 36:5-11](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-365-11/): Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
- [John 12:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/john-121-11/): Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for him there...
- [Hebrews 9:11-15](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-911-15/): But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
- [Isaiah 42:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-421-9/): Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.
- [Mark 15:1-39, (40-47)](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-151-39-40-47/): And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate.
- [Psalm 31:9-16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-319-16/): Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also...
- [Mark 14:1-15:47](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-141-1547/): It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, for they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people."
- [Philippians 2:5-11](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-25-11-2/): Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men...
- [Isaiah 50:4-9a](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-504-9a/): The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary.
- [Psalm 118:1-12, 19-29](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1181-12-19-29/): Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
- [John 12:12-16](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1212-16/): The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem...
- [Mark 11:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-111-11/): The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,' "
- [Psalm 40:5-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-405-10/): You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told...
- [Psalm 45](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-45/): My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe...
- [Luke 1:26-38](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-126-38-2/): In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David...
- [Hebrews 10:4-10](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-104-10/): For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins...
- [Isaiah 7:10-14](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-710-14/): Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz: "Ask a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven."...
- [Psalm 119:9-16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1199-16/): How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! ...
- [Psalm 51:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-511-12/): Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions...
- [John 12:20-33](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1220-33/): Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."...
- [Hebrews 5:5-10](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-55-10/): So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him...
- [Jeremiah 31:31-34](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-3131-34/): Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt...
- [Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1071-3-17-22/): Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. Has the Lord redeemed you? Then speak out!
- [John 3:14-21](https://fccgulfport.org/john-314-21/): For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life...
- [Ephesians 2:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-21-10/): nd you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind...
- [Numbers 21:4-9](https://fccgulfport.org/numbers-214-9/): From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way...
- [Psalm 22:23-31](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-2223-31/): You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel! For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him...
- [Mark 9:2-9](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-92-9-2/): And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves...
- [Mark 8:31-38](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-831-38/): And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he said this plainly...
- [Romans 4:13-25](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-413-25/): For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression...
- [Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-171-7-15-16/): When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly."...
- [Psalm 25:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-251-10/): To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul. O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me. Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous...
- [Mark 1:9-15](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-19-15/): In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased." The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness...
- [1 Peter 3:18-22](https://fccgulfport.org/1-peter-318-22/): For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water...
- [Genesis 9:8-17](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-98-17/): Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, "Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth...
- [2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-520b-610/): Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- [Psalm 51:1-17](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-511-17/): Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
- [Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-61-6-16-21/): Watch out! Don't do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven...
- [Isaiah 58:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-581-12/): Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins...
- [Joel 2:1-2, 12-17](https://fccgulfport.org/joel-21-2-12-17/): Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness!
- [Psalm 50:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-501-6/): The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
- [Mark 9:2-9](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-92-9/): And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves...
- [2 Corinthians 4:3-6](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-43-6/): And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing...
- [2 Kings 2:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/2-kings-21-12/): Now when the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.
- [Exile Thirty Nine](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-thirty-nine/): Today is January 6th – the traditional Feast of the Epiphany. The Church in the Orthodox world celebrates this day in a Christmas fashion – family gatherings, presents, telling of stories, feast-food. For the rest of us, Epiphany marks the end of the twelve days of Christmas.
- [Exile Thirty Eight](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-thirty-eight/): Go back and read last Sunday’s Old Testament lesson (Isaiah 61:10 – 62:3), which is important as we try and understand the miracle of the birth of Jesus in this season of an international pandemic.
- [Exile Thirty Seven and a Half](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-thirty-seven-and-half/): Tom was fourteen years old and big for his age – physically. But mentally he was about four – severely, educationally impaired. Nevertheless, he had faithfully attended Sunday School for practically all of his fourteen years. Tom was certain about one thing, and that was that Jesus was his Savior.
- [Exile Thirty Six](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-thirty-six/): What follows is a repeat of last week’s message, which mysteriously got lost in the ether and did not get to most of you. But, before that, let’s celebrate the fact that this Advent has brought us special blessings and new hope for the future.
- [Exile Thirty Four](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-thirty-four/): Some signs and symptoms of Advent...
- [Exile Thirty Three](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-thirty-three/): Each of us has fingerprints that differ from all the other billions on the earth. Our talents are unique in such a way that if we could measure and code them, we would find them as different as our fingerprints.
- [Exile Thirty Two Part 2](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-thirty-two-part-2/): Several years ago, a Twilight Zone episode portrayed a man who led a shallow, careless life. He managed to live it up all the time. He took advantage of others, engaged in all kinds of wickedness, and only cared about riches and satisfaction for himself. He knew he was lost and had accepted that when he died, he would end up in a less than acceptable place.
- [Exile Thirty Two Part 1](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-thirty-two-part-1/): The year 1991 was a very good year for former President George Bush. He faced a very difficult situation when Iraq invaded Kuwait. He promised to free Kuwait one way or another, using sanctions first, and if they failed, he told Saddam Hussein force would be used. We know what happened next. Using an unlikely military coalition, the allied troops routed Iraq’s army in short order, and Kuwait was liberated.
- [Exile Thirty One](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-thirty-one/): Going to church on Sunday morning – it’s a habit for many people. Is it so much a habit that it becomes unreal? Are the rote and routine so familiar that what we hear and say in Church is kind of unreal to us? Can we restore the feeling that every encounter with God in Church is new every morning?
- [Psalm 24:7-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-247-10/): Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory?
- [Exile Thirty](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-thirty/): Corrie ten Boom was a woman who, during World War II, worked with the Dutch underground. Corrie, her sister Betsie, and their elderly father were all Christians. Because they were Christian, they felt that they should help all those who came to their door fleeing from the Nazi terror.
- [Psalm 84](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-84/): How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God...
- [Exile Twenty Nine](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-twenty-nine/): A comment made at Bible Study last Monday reminded me both of a line from Matthew’s gospel, and then a story I heard many years ago. The comment was (loosely quoted), “How you spend your money shows what is important to you.” And the line from Matthew: Do not store up for yourselves treasure on earth.”
- [Mark 1:21-28](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-121-28/): And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes...
- [Exile Twenty Eight](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-twenty-eight/): A mission team from an Ohio church came to help us right after Katrina went away. Among other things, they helped build a house for a low-income family up in Delisle. When they arrived, they found that the concrete footer for the house had been poured the previous week by another work crew.
- [Exile Twenty Seven](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-twenty-seven/): Consider two men, born decades apart, who both were significantly changed after meeting Jesus and devoting themselves to him. C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) grew up in the Church of England but, by the age of 15, decided he was an atheist, mostly because of God’s silence and the ineffectiveness of his prayers to prevent his mother’s death when he was 10.
- [1 Corinthians 8:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-81-13/): Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up...
- [Exile Twenty Six](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-twenty-six/): Kate Bowler was a professor at Duke Divinity School in Raleigh - Durham, North Carolina. In the early days of her career as a professor, she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. Her last book, Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved dealt with her cancer and the reactions she received from the people around her.
- [Exile Twenty Five](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-twenty-five/): The news has been full of tributes to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of blessed memory. Some of the best tributes to RBG are through the words she said over a long career of wisdom and caring. One quotation stood out to me this past week, and I want to share it and reflect on it.
- [Deuteronomy 18:15-20](https://fccgulfport.org/deuteronomy-1815-20/): The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly...
- [Exile Twenty Four](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-twenty-four/): Most people know about the folk hero, Johnny Appleseed, who moved across the heartland of America during the early western expansion of the frontier. He became famous for scattering seeds as he walked, planting apple trees everywhere he traveled.
- [Psalm 62:5-12](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-625-12/): For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken...
- [Exile Twenty Three](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-twenty-three/): An old friend of mine, from seminary days, tells about a time, years ago, when he was in a horrible car accident. His car was totaled, and when he woke up for the first time days after the crash; he was in a hospital bed in a strange hospital. There was no one in the room as he woke so he felt himself over gingerly to see if there were any injuries.
- [Exile Twenty Two](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-twenty-two-2/): For anyone who wants to grow spiritually, I highly recommend anything written by Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis. Lewis’ is a real story of Christian growth – from his university atheism, through several life tragedies, through to real spiritual leadership in the Church of England. I would recommend anything by Lewis but especially recommend Mere Christianity. Here is a piece from Lewis’ Mere Christianity about Love.
- [Exile Twenty Two](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-twenty-two/): It was either a bold gesture of courage or an act of supreme foolishness. The occasion was the state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev, the leader of the Soviet Union.
- [Mark 1:14-20](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-114-20/): Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."...
- [Exile Twenty One](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-twenty-one/): Two men were walking along a crowded city sidewalk. Suddenly, one of the men remarked, “Listen to the lovely sound of that cricket!!” The friend walking alongside him could not hear the cricket sound at all.
- [Exile Twenty](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-twenty/): One day, two monks were walking through the countryside. They were on their way to a neighboring village to help harvest the crops. As they walked, they spied a very old woman sitting on the side of the river. She was upset because there was no bridge, and she could not get across the river on her own.
- [1 Corinthian 7:29-31](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthian-729-31/): This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none...
- [Exile Nineteen](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-nineteen/): As we enter yet another month of necessary, but uncomfortable, isolation, I wonder about the solidarity of our church communities.
- [Exile Eighteen](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-eighteen/): In 1977, a quiet and traditional Roman Catholic priest named Oscar Romero was consecrated Archbishop of San Salvador. The country of El Salvador was in turmoil at the time, with leaders committing government-sanctioned murders. Initially, the government authorities considered Romero to be a safe bet for Archbishop, but their killings began to affect Romero deeply. He sympathized with the priests who were aligned with the poor people of the country. Many of his priests, and ultimately Romero himself, considered the Church to be among the people but surrounded by wolves.
- [Jonah 3:1-5,10](https://fccgulfport.org/jonah-31-510/): Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you."...
- [Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1391-6-13-18/): O LORD, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar...
- [Exile Sixteen](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-sixteen/): There’s a scene in the classic 1962 film, To Kill a Mockingbird, when Atticus Finch, the defense attorney played by Gregory Peck, gets word that a mob is planning to storm the jail the night before the trial. The plan is to lynch Atticus’s client, a black falsely accused of lynching a white woman. Atticus Finch calmly takes a floor lamp from his living room, goes down to the jail, hauls a chair from the sheriff’s office out onto the porch of the jailhouse, and sets himself up there for the night.
- [Exile Fifteen](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-fifteen/): The Church is in turbulence; this is not news to anybody. Its turbulence is more acute now that we are separated by a quarantine. Maybe the following will help. It is by an anonymous author and appeared in the “Church Times” (England) about twenty-five years ago.
- [John 1:43-51](https://fccgulfport.org/john-143-51/): The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?"...
- [Exile Fourteen](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-fourteen/): When I was young, I would go to my grandmother’s house and eat the grapes growing in her backyard. Of course, most of the time, they were not ripe and very, very sour. I could never quite figure out that they were only good to eat in the fall, so, all summer I would try every time I was there to see if they were ripe yet, and they usually weren’t.
- [Exile Thirteen](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-thirteen/): There was once a teacher whose job it was to visit children in a big hospital and help them keep up with their lessons. When she was given the name and room number of one particular boy, she first called his regular teacher and learned that his class was studying nouns and verbs.
- [1 Corinthians 6:12-20](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-612-20/): "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be dominated by anything. "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"—and God will destroy both one and the other...
- [Exile Twelve](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-twelve/): When each of my children was born in England, the hospital gave every new father a set of things to think about. Let me quote them here and see if they resonate.
- [Exile Eleven](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-eleven/): Not too long ago, a famous aerial acrobat suffered a bad fall from his high trapeze. He barely escaped death. Later, in an interview, he said that as soon as his bones mended, he would be back up in the air again.
- [1 Samuel 3:1-10, (11-20)](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-31-10-11-20/): Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD in the presence of Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision...
- [Exile Ten](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-ten/): There’s a story told about a church organist who played one of those old-fashioned organs – the type that had to be pumped by hand to get air flowing through the pipes and reeds. It was no small honor to be selected to be the boy or girl who operated the hand pump.
- [Psalm 29](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-29/): Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.
- [Exile Nine](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-nine/): [Tomorrow is the Feast of the Ascension of Jesus – read Acts 1:1-11] Acts 1:10-11: Two men dressed in white said, “Galileans, why are you standing there looking up at the sky?” Those two verses remind me of a popular schoolboy prank, one in which I participated gleefully.
- [Mark 1:4-11](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-14-11/): John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins...
- [Exile Eight](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-eight/): Have you ever sat in church on a Sunday morning (remember when we could do that?) and listening to a familiar Bible story being read, for instance, of Jesus healing the leper? You have heard the story many times before and you believe that it is true. But, while you are in worship, your good friend is hanging by a thread in a local hospital dying of cancer. Fear and anxiety fill your heart and, although your mind believes that Jesus had the power to heal your loved one, your heart is blinded by the seeming reality of impending death.
- [Acts 19:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-191-7/): And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples...
- [Exile Seven](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-seven/): These days, who cannot identify with the words of the spiritual: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen? Almost everyone can state personal stories of pain, rejection, sorrow, and inconvenience.
- [Genesis 1:1-5](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-11-5/): In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep...
- [Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-721-7-10-14/): Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son! May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!...
- [Matthew 2:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-21-12/): Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him."...
- [Exile Five](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-five/): Here’s a quotation I came across. It speaks to us as we continue our exile in this most joyous of seasons. The quotation is by Frederick B. Speakman, and I have no idea who he is! But, I like what he says: “Easter is no time for argument. Lilies don’t argue: they bloom. Springtime doesn’t argue: it comes. Music doesn’t argue: it sings. Love doesn’t argue: it outlives our griefs.”
- [Ephesians 3:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-31-12/): For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly...
- [Isaiah 60:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-601-6/): Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you...
- [Exile Three](https://fccgulfport.org/exile-three/): London is a city rich in history. You can live into a long history of a great nation just by touring around the streets of London: places like Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London, the Houses of Parliament, and the, mostly neglected, Cabinet War Rooms which served so vitally during the second World War. Being in London is like traveling in time.
- [Amos 7:7-15](https://fccgulfport.org/amos-77-15/): This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line."
- [Mark 6:14-29](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-614-29/): King Herod heard of it, for Jesus' name had become known. Some said, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead. That is why these miraculous powers are at work in him."
- [Ephesians 1:3-14](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-13-14/): Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.
- [Psalm 24](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-24/): In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- [2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19](https://fccgulfport.org/2-samuel-61-5-12b-19/): And it was told King David, "The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God." So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing.
- [Mark 4:35-41](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-435-41/): On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side.
- [2 Corinthians 6:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-61-13/): Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, "In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you."
- [Psalm 107:1-3,23-32](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1071-323-32/): Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
- [Job 38:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/job-381-11/): Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
- [Psalm 133](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-133-2/): Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes!
- [1 Samuel 17:57-18:5, 18:10-16](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-1757-185-1810-16/): And as soon as David returned from the striking down of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
- [Psalm 9:9-20](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-99-20/): The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.
- [1 Samuel 17:1a(4-11,19-23), 32-49](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-171a4-1119-23-32-49/): Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. And they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
- [Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-921-4-12-15/): It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night, to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre.
- [Ezekiel 17:22-24](https://fccgulfport.org/ezekiel-1722-24/): Thus says the Lord GOD: "I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out."...
- [Mark 4:26-34](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-426-34/): "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."
- [2 Corinthians 5:6-17](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-56-17/): So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight.
- [Psalm 20](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-20/): May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you! May he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion! May he remember all your offerings and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah
- [1 Samuel 15:34-16:13](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-1534-1613/): Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul. And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the LORD regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.
- [Mark 3:20-35](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-320-35/): Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, "He is out of his mind."
- [2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-413-51/): Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, "I believed, and so I spoke," we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
- [Psalm 130](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-130/): Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD! O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
- [Genesis 3:8-15](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-38-15/): And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
- [Psalm 138](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-138/): I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise; I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.
- [1 Samuel 11:14-15](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-1114-15/): Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom." So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the LORD, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
- [1 Samuel 8:4-20](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-84-20/): Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations."
- [Romans 12:9-16b](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-129-16b/): Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
- [Luke 1:39-57](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-139-57/): In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.
- [Psalm 113](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-113/): Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.
- [1 Samuel 2:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-21-13/): My heart exults in the LORD; my horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
- [Romans 8:12-17](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-812-17/): So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
- [John 3:1-17](https://fccgulfport.org/john-31-17/): Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him."
- [Psalm 29](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-29-2/): Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
- [Isaiah 6:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-61-8/): In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
- [Acts 2:1-21](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-21-21-2/): When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
- [Romans 8:22-27](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-822-27/): For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
- [Psalm 104:24-34, 35b](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-10424-34-35b/): O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
- [John 15:26-27;16:4b-15](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1526-27164b-15/): But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
- [Ezekiel 37:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/ezekiel-371-14/): The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.
- [Acts 2:1-21](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-21-21/): When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
- [Psalm 1](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1/): Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
- [John 17:6-19](https://fccgulfport.org/john-176-19/): I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.
- [1 John 5:9-13](https://fccgulfport.org/1-john-59-13/): If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself
- [Acts 1:15-17;21-26](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-115-1721-26/): In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said, "Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. For he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry."
- [Psalm 93](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-93/): The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt.
- [Psalm 47](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-47/): Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!
- [Luke 24:44-53](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-2444-53/): These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.
- [Ephesians 1:15-23](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-115-23/): For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints...
- [Acts 1:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-11-11/): In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
- [Psalm 98](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-98/): Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things!
- [John 15:9-17](https://fccgulfport.org/john-159-17/): As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
- [1 John 5:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/1-john-51-6/): Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
- [Acts 10:44-48](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-1044-48/): While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.
- [Psalm 23](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-23/): The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
- [John 10:11-18](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1011-18/): I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
- [1 John 3:16-24](https://fccgulfport.org/1-john-316-24/): By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- [Acts 4:5-12](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-45-12/): On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.
- [Psalm 4](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-4/): Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
- [Luke 24:36b-48](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-2436b-48/): As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace to you!"
- [1 John 3:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/1-john-31-7/): See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.
- [Acts 3:12-19](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-312-19/): And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: "Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?
- [Psalm 133](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-133/): Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes!
- [John 20:19-31](https://fccgulfport.org/john-2019-31/): On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."
- [1 John 1:1-2:2](https://fccgulfport.org/1-john-11-22/): That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
- [Acts 4:32-35](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-432-35/): Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.
- [3 Easter Exile](https://fccgulfport.org/3-easter-exile/): This is the Sunday when the story of the risen Jesus meeting some of his disciples on the road to Emmaus is to be read. It is difficult to put ourselves into the chaos that must have confused those disciples. So, today, in the midst of our own chaos and exile, perhaps we can seek to find some peace in the confusion.
- [2 Easter Exile](https://fccgulfport.org/2-easter-exile/): I am sure that the other disciples resented Thomas. This time, after Jesus’ death and resurrection, wasn’t the first time that Thomas’ candid honesty had irritated the other disciples.
- [Psalm 114](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-114/): When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
- [Luke 24:13-49](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-2413-49/): That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.
- [1 Corinthians 5:6b-8](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-56b-8/): Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
- [Isaiah 25:6-9](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-256-9/): On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
- [1 Corinthians 15:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-151-11/): Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
- [Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1181-2-14-24/): Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
- [John 20:1-18](https://fccgulfport.org/john-201-18/): Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
- [Acts 10:34-43](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-1034-43/): Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
- [Easter Exile](https://fccgulfport.org/easter-exile/): I am sure that the other disciples resented Thomas. This time, after Jesus’ death and resurrection, wasn’t the first time that Thomas’ candid honesty had irritated the other disciples. At the Last Supper, Thomas had asked Jesus, “Lord, we do not know where you are going, how can we know the way?” The other apostles probably resented the question as uninspired and very poorly timed.
- [Romans 6:3-11 and Psalm 114](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-63-11-and-psalm-114/): Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
- [Mark 16:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-161-8/): When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb.
- [Genesis 7:1-5, 11-18;8:6-18, 9:8-13 and Psalm 46](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-71-5-11-1886-18-98-13-and-psalm-46/): Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
- [Genesis 1:1-2:4a and Psalm 136:1-9,23-26](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-11-24a-and-psalm-1361-923-26/): In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
- [1 Peter 4:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/1-peter-41-8/): Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
- [Psalm 31:1-4,15-16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-311-415-16/): In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!
- [Matthew 27:57-66](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-2757-66/): When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
- [Job 14:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/job-141-14/): "Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
- [John 18:1-19:42](https://fccgulfport.org/john-181-1942/): When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
- [Hebrews 10:16-25](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-1016-25/): This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,"
- [Psalm 22](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-22/): My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest...
- [Isaiah 52:13-53:12](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-5213-5312/): Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted...
- [1 Corinthians 11:23-26](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-1123-26/): For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body, which is for you...
- [Psalm 116:1-2,12-19](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1161-212-19/): I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live
- [John 13:1-17, 31b-35](https://fccgulfport.org/john-131-17-31b-35/): Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
- [Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14](https://fccgulfport.org/exodus-121-4-5-10-11-14/): The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, "This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
- [Psalm 70](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-70/): Make haste, O God, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me! Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life!
- [John 13:21-32](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1321-32/): After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, "Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me."
- [Hebrews 12:1-3](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-121-3/): Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
- [Isaiah 50:4-9a](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-504-9a-2/): The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary.
- [Psalm 71:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-711-14/): In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame!
- [John 12:20-36](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1220-36/): Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."
- [1 Corinthians 1:18-31](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-118-31/): For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God...
- [Isaiah 49:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-491-7/): Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name...
- [Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17](https://fccgulfport.org/ruth-31-5-413-17/): Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse. And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi." They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
- [Revelation 21:1-6a](https://fccgulfport.org/revelation-211-6a/): Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
- [Fall Festival and Trunk or Treat](https://fccgulfport.org/fall-festival-and-trunk-or-treat/): On Saturday, October 30, 2021 members and friends of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Gulfport hosted a Fall Festival and Trunk or Treat. We had food, games, and plenty of candy.
- [John 11:32-44](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1132-44/): Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. And he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." Jesus wept. So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?"
- [Psalm 24](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-24-2/): The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.
- [Isaiah 25:6-9](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-256-9-2/): On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined. And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
- [Psalm 126](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-126-2/): When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them." The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad.
- [Jeremiah 31:7-9](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-317-9/): For thus says the LORD: "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'
- [Mark 10:46-52](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-1046-52/): And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside.
- [Hebrews 7:23-28](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-723-28/): The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.
- [Psalm 34:1-8, (19-22)](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-341-8-19-22/): I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
- [Job 42:1-6, 10-17](https://fccgulfport.org/job-421-6-10-17/): And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
- [Psalm 91:9-16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-919-16/): Because you have made the LORD your dwelling place— the Most High, who is my refuge— no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent.
- [Isaiah 53:4-12](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-534-12/): Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
- [Mark 10:35-45](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-1035-45/): And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." And he said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?" And they said to him, "Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory."
- [Hebrews 5:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-51-10/): For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
- [Psalm 104:1-9, 24, 35c](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1041-9-24-35c/): Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.
- [Job 38:1-7, (34-41)](https://fccgulfport.org/job-381-7-34-41/): Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me."
- [1 Timothy 2:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/1-timothy-21-7/): First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.
- [Matthew 6:25-33](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-625-33/): "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?"
- [Psalm 126](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-126/): When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them." The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad.
- [Joel 2:21-27](https://fccgulfport.org/joel-221-27/): "Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things! Fear not, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green; the tree bears its fruit; the fig tree and vine give their full yield.
- [Psalm 90:12-17](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-9012-17/): So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants!
- [Mark 10:17-31](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-1017-31/): And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good?"
- [Hebrews 4:12-16](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-412-16/): For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- [Psalm 22:1-15](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-221-15/): My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.
- [Job 23:1-9;16-17](https://fccgulfport.org/job-231-916-17/): "Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning. Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!"
- [Amos 5:6-7, 10-15](https://fccgulfport.org/amos-56-7-10-15/): Seek the LORD and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel, O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!
- [Psalm 8](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-8-2/): O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
- [Genesis 2:18-24](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-218-24/): Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."
- [Mark 10:2-16](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-102-16/): And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" He answered them, "What did Moses command you?" They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away."
- [Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-11-4-25-12/): Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
- [Psalm 26](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-26/): Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering. Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind.
- [Job 1:1, 2-10](https://fccgulfport.org/job-11-2-10/): There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
- [Psalm 19:7-14](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-197-14/): The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
- [Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29](https://fccgulfport.org/numbers-114-6-10-16-24-29/): Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, "Oh that we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at."
- [Mark 9:38-50](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-938-50/): John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us." But Jesus said, "Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. For the one who is not against us is for us. For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.
- [James 5:13-20](https://fccgulfport.org/james-513-20-2/): Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
- [Psalm 124](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-124/): If it had not been the LORD who was on our side— let Israel now say— if it had not been the LORD who was on our side when people rose up against us, then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us; then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us; then over us would have gone the raging waters.
- [Esther 7:1-6, 9-10;9:20-22](https://fccgulfport.org/esther-71-6-9-10920-22/): So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, "What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled."
- [Psalm 54](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-54/): O God, save me by your name, and vindicate me by your might. O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth.
- [Jeremiah 11:18-20](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-1118-20/): The LORD made it known to me and I knew; then you showed me their deeds.
- [Mark 9:30-37](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-930-37/): They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know, for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise." But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
- [James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a](https://fccgulfport.org/james-313-43-7-8a/): Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
- [Psalm 1](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1-2/): Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
- [Proverbs 31:10-31](https://fccgulfport.org/proverbs-3110-31/): An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.
- [1 Corinthians 1:18-24](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-118-24/): For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."
- [John 3:13-17](https://fccgulfport.org/john-313-17/): No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
- [Psalm 78:1-2,34-38](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-781-234-38/): When he killed them, they sought him; they repented and sought God earnestly. They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.
- [Psalm 98:1-5](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-981-5/): Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations. He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel.
- [Numbers 21:4b-9](https://fccgulfport.org/numbers-214b-9/): From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?
- [Psalm 19](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-19/): The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.
- [Mark 8:27-38](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-827-38/): And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?" And they told him, "John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets." And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Christ." And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.
- [Psalm 116:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1161-9/): I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
- [Proverbs 1:20-33](https://fccgulfport.org/proverbs-120-33/): Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
- [Isaiah 50:4-9a](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-504-9a-3/): The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward.
- [James 3:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/james-31-12/): Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways.
- [Psalm 146](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-146/): Praise the LORD, O my soul! I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
- [Isaiah 35:4-7a](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-354-7a/): Say to those who have an anxious heart, "Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you."
- [Mark 7:24-37](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-724-37/): And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.
- [James 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17](https://fccgulfport.org/james-21-10-11-13-14-17/): My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, "You sit here in a good place," while you say to the poor man, "You stand over there," or, "Sit down at my feet," have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
- [Psalm 125](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-125/): Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore.
- [James 5:13-20](https://fccgulfport.org/james-513-20/): Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
- [Proverbs 22:1-2,8-9,22-23](https://fccgulfport.org/proverbs-221-28-922-23/): A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the Maker of them all.
- [Ephesians 6:10-20](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-610-20/): Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
- [Psalm 34:15-22](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-3415-22/): The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry. The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
- [Joshua 24:1-2a,14-18](https://fccgulfport.org/joshua-241-2a14-18/): Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
- [John 6:56-69](https://fccgulfport.org/john-656-69/): Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.
- [Psalm 84](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-84-2/): How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
- [1 Kings 8:(1,6,10-11), 22-30,41-43](https://fccgulfport.org/1-kings-81610-11-22-3041-43/): Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
- [Psalm 34:9-14](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-349-14/): Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
- [Proverbs 9:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/proverbs-91-6/): Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars. She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
- [John 6:51-58](https://fccgulfport.org/john-651-58/): I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
- [Ephesians 5:15-20](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-515-20/): Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
- [1 Kings 2:10; 2:3-14](https://fccgulfport.org/1-kings-210-23-14/): Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
- [Psalm 34:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-341-8/): I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
- [1 Kings 19:4-8](https://fccgulfport.org/1-kings-194-8/): But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."
- [John 6:35:41-51](https://fccgulfport.org/john-63541-51/): So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?" Jesus answered them, "Do not grumble among yourselves.
- [Ephesians 4:25-5:2](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-425-52/): Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
- [Psalm 130](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-130-2/): Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD! O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
- [2 Samuel 18:5-9,15,31-33](https://fccgulfport.org/2-samuel-185-91531-33/): So the army went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim. And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the loss there was great on that day, twenty thousand men. The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword.
- [Psalm 78:23-29](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-7823-29/): Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven, and he rained down on them manna to eat and gave them the grain of heaven.
- [Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15](https://fccgulfport.org/exodus-162-4-9-15/): And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
- [John 6:24-35](https://fccgulfport.org/john-624-35/): So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
- [Ephesians 4:1-16](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-41-16/): I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
- [Psalm 51:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-511-12-2/): Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
- [2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a](https://fccgulfport.org/2-samuel-1126-1213a/): When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband. And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
- [Psalm 145:10-18](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-14510-18/): All your works shall give thanks to you, O LORD, and all your saints shall bless you! They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and tell of your power, to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations.
- [2 Kings 4:42-44](https://fccgulfport.org/2-kings-4-42-44/): A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, "Give to the men, that they may eat."
- [John 6:1-21](https://fccgulfport.org/john-61-21/): After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
- [Ephesians 3:14-21](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-314-21/): For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
- [Psalm 14](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-14/): The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.
- [2 Samuel 11:1-5](https://fccgulfport.org/2-samuel-111-5/): In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
- [Psalm 23](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-23-2/): The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
- [Jermiah 23:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/jermiah-231-6/): “Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord.
- [Mark 6:30-34, 53-56](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-630-34-53-56/): The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while."
- [Ephesians 2:11-22](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-211-22/): Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
- [Psalm 89:20-37](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-8920-37/): I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him, so that my hand shall be established with him; my arm also shall strengthen him.
- [2 Samuel 7:1-14a](https://fccgulfport.org/2-samuel-71-14a/): Now when the king lived in his house and the LORD had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent."
- [Psalm 85:8-13](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-858-13/): Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly. Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
- [Isaiah 58:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-581-12-2/): Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.
- [Joel 2:1-2,12-17](https://fccgulfport.org/joel-21-212-17/): Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness!
- [Psalm 99](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-99/): The LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake! The LORD is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples. Let them praise your great and awesome name!
- [Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a)](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-928-36-37-43a/): Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became dazzling white.
- [2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-312-42/): Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. But their minds were hardened.
- [Exodus 34:29-35](https://fccgulfport.org/exodus-3429-35/): When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.
- [Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-371-11-39-40/): Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
- [Luke 6:27-38](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-627-38/): But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either.
- [1 Corinthians 15:35-38,42-50](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-1535-3842-50/): But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
- [Genesis 45:3-11, 15](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-453-11-15/): So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
- [Psalm 1](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1-3/): Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
- [Luke 6:17-26](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-617-26/): And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases.
- [1 Corinthians 15:12-20](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-1512-20/): Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
- [Jeremiah 17:5-10](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-175-10/): Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
- [Psalm 138](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-138-2/): I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise; I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.
- [Luke 5:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-51-11/): On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
- [1 Corinthians 15:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-151-11-2/): Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
- [Isaiah 6:1-8 (9-13)](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-61-8-9-13/): In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
- [Psalm 24:7-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-247-10-2/): Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory?
- [Luke 2:22-40](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-222-40-2/): And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord") and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, "a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
- [Hebrews 2:14-18](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-214-18/): Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
- [Malachi 3:1-4](https://fccgulfport.org/malachi-31-4-2/): Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.
- [Psalm 71:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-711-6/): In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me!
- [Luke 4:21-30](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-421-30/): And he began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, "Is not this Joseph's son?"
- [1 Corinthians 13:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-131-13/): If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
- [Jeremiah 1:4-10](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-14-10/): "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
- [1 Corinthians 12:12-31a](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-1212-31a/): For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
- [Psalm 19](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-19-2/): The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.
- [Luke 4:14-21](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-414-21/): And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country.
- [Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10](https://fccgulfport.org/nehemiah-81-3-5-6-8-10/): And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the LORD had commanded Israel.
- [John 2:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/john-21-11/): On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."
- [1 Corinthians 12:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-121-11/): Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus is accursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except in the Holy Spirit.
- [Psalm 36:5-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-365-10/): Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
- [Isaiah 62:1-5](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-621-5/): For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.
- [Psalm 29](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-29-3/): Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.
- [Luke 3:15-17, 21-22](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-315-17-21-22/): As the people were in expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Christ, John answered them all, saying, "I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.
- [Acts 8:14-17](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-814-17/): Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.
- [Isaiah 43:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-431-7/): But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel.
- [Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-721-7-10-14-2/): Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!
- [Matthew 2:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-21-12-2/): Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?
- [Ephesians 3:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-31-12-2/): For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly.
- [Isaiah 60:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-601-6-2/): Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.
- [Wisdom of Solomon 10:15-21](https://fccgulfport.org/wisdom-of-solomon-1015-21/): Wisdom rescued a holy people and a pure generation from the grip of people who were crushing them.
- [Psalm 147:12-20](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-14712-20/): Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem!
- [John 1:(1-9), 10-18](https://fccgulfport.org/john-11-9-10-18/): In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
- [Ephesians 1:3-14](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-13-14-2/): Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.
- [Sirach 24:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/sirach-241-12/): Wisdom praises herself, and tells of her glory in the midst of her people.
- [Jeremiah 31:7-14](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-317-14/): For thus says the LORD: "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'
- [Psalm 8](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-8-3/): O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
- [Luke 2:15-21](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-215-21-2/): When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."
- [Philippians 2:5-11](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-25-11-3/): Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
- [Galatians 4:4-7](https://fccgulfport.org/galatians-44-7-3/): But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
- [Numbers 6:22-27](https://fccgulfport.org/numbers-622-27-2/): The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel.
- [Psalm 148](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-148-2/): Praise the LORD!
- [Luke 2:41-52](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-241-52/): Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem.
- [Colossians 3:12-17](https://fccgulfport.org/colossians-312-17/): Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience
- [1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-218-20-26/): Samuel was ministering before the LORD, a boy clothed with a linen ephod. And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
- [Psalm 98](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-98-2/): Oh, sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
- [John 1:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/john-11-14/): In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
- [Hebrews 1:1-4, (5-12)](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-11-4-5-12/): Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
- [Isaiah 52:7-10](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-527-10/): How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."
- [Psalm 80:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-801-7/): Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might and come to save us!
- [Luke 1:46b-55](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-146b-55-3/): My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant.
- [Luke 1:39-45, (46-55)](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-139-45-46-55/): In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb.
- [Hebrews 10:5-10](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-105-10/): "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.' "
- [Micah 5 2-5a](https://fccgulfport.org/micah-5-2-5a/): But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
- [Isaiah 12:2-6](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-122-6/): "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation."
- [Luke 3:7-18](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-37-18/): He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
- [Philippians 4:4-7](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-44-7/): Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone.
- [Zephaniah 3:14-20](https://fccgulfport.org/zephaniah-314-20/): Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!
- [Philippians 1:3-11](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-13-11/): I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.
- [Luke 1:68-79](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-168-79/): Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us;
- [Luke 3:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-31-6/): In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
- [Malachi 3:1-4](https://fccgulfport.org/malachi-31-4/): Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.
- [Baruch 5:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/baruch-51-9/): Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on for ever the beauty of the glory from God.
- [Psalm 25:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-251-10-2/): To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul. O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me. Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
- [Luke 21:25-36](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-2125-36/): And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world.
- [Thessalonians 3:9-13](https://fccgulfport.org/thessalonians-39-13/): For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God,
- [Jeremiah 33:14-16](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-3314-16/): Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
- [1 Timothy 2:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/1-timothy-21-7-2/): First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.
- [Matthew 6:25-33](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-625-33-2/): Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on.
- [Psalm 126](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-126-3/): When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them." The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad.
- [Joel 2:21-27](https://fccgulfport.org/joel-221-27-2/): Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things! Fear not, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green; the tree bears its fruit; the fig tree and vine give their full yield.
- [Psalm 93](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-93-2/): The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.
- [Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14](https://fccgulfport.org/daniel-79-10-13-14/): As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire.
- [Revelation 1:4b-8](https://fccgulfport.org/revelation-14b-8/): John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.
- [John 18:33-37](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1833-37/): So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
- [Psalm 132:1-12, (13-18)](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1321-12-13-18/): Remember, O LORD, in David's favor, all the hardships he endured, how he swore to the LORD and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob, "I will not enter my house or get into my bed, I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob."
- [2 Samuel 23:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/2-samuel-231-7/): Now, these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:
- [Psalm 16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-16/): Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the LORD, "You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.
- [Daniel 12:1-3](https://fccgulfport.org/daniel-121-3/): At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time.
- [Mark 13:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-131-8/): And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!" And Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down."
- [Hebrews 10:11-14, (15-18), 19-25](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-1011-14-15-18-19-25/): Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
- [1 Samuel 2:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-21-10/): My heart exults in the LORD; my horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
- [1 Samuel 1:4-20](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-14-20/): On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the LORD had closed her womb.
- [Psalm 146](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-146-2/): Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
- [1 Kings 17:8-16](https://fccgulfport.org/1-kings-178-16/): Then the word of the LORD came to him, "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you." So he arose and went to Zarephath.
- [Mark 12:38-44](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-1238-44/): And in his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
- [Hebrews 9:24-28](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-924-28/): For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
- [Psalm 127](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-127/): Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
- [Isaiah 65:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-651-9/): I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here I am, here I am," to a nation that was not called by my name.
- [Luke 8:26-39](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-826-39/): Then they sailed to the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. When Jesus had stepped out on land, there met him a man from the city who had demons.
- [Psalm 42](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-42/): As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
- [1 Kings 19:1-4 (5-7), 8-15a](https://fccgulfport.org/1-kings-191-4-5-7-8-15a/): Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow."
- [Romans 5:1-5](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-51-5/): Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- [John 16:12-15](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1612-15/): I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
- [Psalm 8](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-8-4/): O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
- [Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31](https://fccgulfport.org/proverbs-81-4-22-31/): Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice?
- [Acts 2:1-21](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-21-21-4/): When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
- [Romans 8:14-17](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-814-17/): For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"
- [Psalm 104:24-34, 35b](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-10424-34-35b-2/): O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great.
- [John 14:8-17, (25-27)](https://fccgulfport.org/john-148-17-25-27/): Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us."
- [Genesis 11:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-111-9/): Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly."
- [Acts 2:1-21](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-21-21-3/): When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
- [Romans 12:9-16b](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-129-16b-2/): Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
- [1 Samuel 2:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-21-10-2/): "My heart exults in the LORD; my horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
- [Psalm 113](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-113-2/): Praise the LORD! Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD! Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and forevermore! From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the LORD is to be praised!
- [Luke 1:39-57](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-139-57-2/): In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb.
- [Psalm 97](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-97/): The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad! Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries all around.
- [John 17:20-26](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1720-26/): I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
- [Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21](https://fccgulfport.org/revelation-2212-14-16-17-20-21/): "Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.
- [Acts 16:16-34](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-1616-34/): As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. She followed Paul and us, crying out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation." And this she kept doing for many days.
- [Psalm 93](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-93-3/): The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.
- [Luke 24:44-53](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-2444-53-2/): Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."
- [Psalm 47](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-47-2/): Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy! For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth. He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet. He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah
- [Acts 1:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-11-11-2/): In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
- [Ephesians 1:15-23](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-115-23-2/): For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
- [Psalm 148](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-148-3/): Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens; praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts!
- [John 13:31-35](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1331-35/): When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, 'Where I am going you cannot come.' A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
- [Revelation 21:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/revelation-211-6/): Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- [Acts 11:1-18](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-111-18/): Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying, "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them." But Peter began and explained it to them in order: "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me.
- [Psalm 23](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-23-3/): The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
- [John 10:22-30](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1022-30/): At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense?
- [Revelation 7:9-17](https://fccgulfport.org/revelation-79-17/): After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"
- [Acts 9:36-43](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-936-43/): All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them. But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, arise."
- [John 21:1-19](https://fccgulfport.org/john-211-19/): After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We will go with you." They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.
- [Psalm 30](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-30/): I will extol you, O LORD, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me. O LORD my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
- [Revelation 5:11-14](https://fccgulfport.org/revelation-511-14/): Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice
- [Acts 9:1-6, (7-20)](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-91-6-7-20/): But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
- [John 20:19-31](https://fccgulfport.org/john-2019-31-2/): On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."
- [Revelation 1:4-8](https://fccgulfport.org/revelation-14-8/): John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.
- [Psalm 150](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-150/): Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!
- [Psalm 118:14-29](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-11814-29/): The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the LORD does valiantly, the right hand of the LORD exalts, the right hand of the LORD does valiantly!"
- [Acts 5:27-32](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-527-32/): And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, saying, "We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us."
- [Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1181-2-14-24-2/): Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
- [1 Corinthians 15:19-26](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-1519-26/): If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
- [Acts 10:34-43](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-1034-43-2/): So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him."
- [John 20:1-18](https://fccgulfport.org/john-201-18-2/): Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him."
- [Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-311-4-15-16/): In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!
- [Job 14:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/job-141-14-2/): Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
- [1 Peter 4:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/1-peter-41-8-2/): Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
- [Matthew 27:57-66](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-2757-66-2/): When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.
- [Hebrews 10:16-25](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-1016-25-2/): "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds," then he adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more."
- [John 18:1-19:42](https://fccgulfport.org/john-181-1942-2/): When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
- [Isaiah 52:13-53:12](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-5213-5312-2/): Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.
- [Psalm 22](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-22-2/): My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.
- [Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1161-2-12-19/): I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
- [Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14](https://fccgulfport.org/exodus-121-4-5-10-11-14-2/): The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, "This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.
- [John 13:1-17, 31b-35](https://fccgulfport.org/john-131-17-31b-35-2/): Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
- [1 Corinthians 11:23-26](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-1123-26-2/): For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
- [Hebrews 12:1-3](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-121-3-2/): Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
- [John 13:21-32](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1321-32-2/): After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, "Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me."
- [Psalm 70](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-70-2/): Make haste, O God, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me! Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt! Let them turn back because of their shame who say, "Aha, Aha!"
- [Isaiah 50:4-9a](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-504-9a-4/): The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary.
- [1 Corinthians 1:18-31](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-118-31-2/): For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."
- [John 12:20-36](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1220-36-2/): Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
- [Psalm 71:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-711-14-2/): In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me!
- [Isaiah 49:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-491-7-2/): Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.
- [John 12:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/john-121-11-2/): Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.
- [Psalm 36:5-11](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-365-11-2/): Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
- [Isaiah 42:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-421-9-2/): Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.
- [Hebrews 9:11-15](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-911-15-2/): But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
- [Luke 23:1-49](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-231-49/): Then the whole company of them arose and brought him before Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
- [Luke 22:14-23:56](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-2214-2356/): And when the hour came, he reclined at table, and the apostles with him. And he said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."
- [Psalm 31:9-16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-319-16-2/): Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
- [Philippians 2:5-11](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-25-11-4/): Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
- [Psalm 126](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-126-4/): When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them." The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad.
- [John 12:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/john-121-8/): Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair.
- [Philippians 3:4b-14](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-34b-14/): If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
- [Isaiah 43:16-21](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-4316-21/): Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: "Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
- [Psalm 32](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-32/): Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
- [Luke 15:1-3;11b-32](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-151-311b-32/): Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them." So he told them this parable:
- [2 Corinthians 5:16-21](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-516-21/): From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.
- [Joshua 5:9-12](https://fccgulfport.org/joshua-59-12/): And the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.
- [Psalm 40:5-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-405-10-2/): You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
- [Psalm 45](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-45-2/): My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.
- [Luke 1:26-38](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-126-38-3/): In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary.
- [Hebrews 10:4-10](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-104-10-2/): "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.' "
- [Isaiah 7:10-14](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-710-14-2/): Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz: "Ask a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven."
- [Psalm 63:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-631-8/): O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
- [Luke 13:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-131-9/): There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way?
- [1 Corinthians 10:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-101-13/): For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink.
- [Isaiah 55:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-551-9/): Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat!
- [Psalm 27](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-27/): The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
- [Luke 13:31-35](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-1331-35/): At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, "Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you." And he said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course. Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.'
- [Philippians 3:17-4:1](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-317-41/): When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
- [Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-151-12-17-18/): After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."
- [2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-520b-610-2/): Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- [Psalm 51:1-17](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-511-17-2/): Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
- [Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-61-6-16-21-2/): Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
- [Psalm 111](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-111/): I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation. Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them.
- [2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c](https://fccgulfport.org/2-kings-51-3-7-15c/): Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
- [Luke 17:11-19](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-1711-19/): On the way to Jerusalem, he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us."
- [2 Timothy 2:8-15](https://fccgulfport.org/2-timothy-28-15/): Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
- [Psalm 66: 1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-66-1-12/): Shout for joy to God, all the earth; sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise! Say to God, "How awesome are your deeds!
- [Jeremiah 29: 1, 4-7](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-29-1-4-7/): These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
- [2 Timothy 1:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/2-timothy-11-14/): I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.
- [Psalm 37:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-371-9/): Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
- [Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4](https://fccgulfport.org/habakkuk-11-4-21-4/): I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
- [Luke 17:5-10](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-175-10/): The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" And the Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
- [Psalm 137](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-137/): By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our lyres. For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
- [Lamentations 3:19-26](https://fccgulfport.org/lamentations-319-26/): Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
- [Lamentations 1:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/lamentations-11-6/): How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave.
- [1 Timothy 6:6-19](https://fccgulfport.org/1-timothy-66-19/): But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
- [Psalm 146](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-146-3/): Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
- [Amos 6:1a, 4-7](https://fccgulfport.org/amos-61a-4-7/): Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!
- [Luke 16:19-31](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-1619-31/): There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
- [Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-911-6-14-16/): He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."
- [Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-321-3a-6-15/): The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah.
- [1 Corinthians 1:18-24](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-118-24-2/): For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."
- [John 3:13-17](https://fccgulfport.org/john-313-17-2/): No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
- [Psalm 78:1-2, 34-38](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-781-2-34-38/): Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old.
- [Psalm 98:1-5](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-981-5-2/): Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
- [Numbers 21:4b-9](https://fccgulfport.org/numbers-214b-9-2/): From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way.
- [Psalm 51:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-511-10/): Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
- [Exodus 32:7-14](https://fccgulfport.org/exodus-327-14/): And the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them.
- [Luke 15:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-151-10/): Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them."
- [1 Timothy 1:12-17](https://fccgulfport.org/1-timothy-112-17/): I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service, though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent.
- [Psalm 14](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-14-2/): The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.
- [Jeremiah 4:11-12,22-28](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-411-1222-28/): At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse, a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them."
- [Luke 14:25-33](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-1425-33/): Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
- [Philemon 1:1-21](https://fccgulfport.org/philemon-11-21/): Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker 2 and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- [Psalm 1](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1-4/): Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; but their delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law they meditate day and night.
- [Deuteronomy 30:15-20](https://fccgulfport.org/deuteronomy-3015-20/): See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you today, by loving the LORD your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
- [Psalm 139:1-18](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1391-18/): O LORD, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.
- [Jeremiah 18:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-181-11/): The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: "Come, go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words." So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel.
- [Luke 14:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-141-14/): On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely.
- [Hebrews 13:1-16](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-131-16/): Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
- [Psalm 112](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-112/): Praise the LORD! Happy are those who fear the LORD, who greatly delight in his commandments. Their descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
- [Proverbs 25:6-7](https://fccgulfport.org/proverbs-256-7/): Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great; for it is better to be told, "Come up here," than to be put lower in the presence of a noble.
- [Sirach 10:12-18](https://fccgulfport.org/sirach-1012-18/): The beginning of human pride is to forsake the Lord; the heart has withdrawn from its Maker. For the beginning of pride is sin, and the one who clings to it pours out abominations.
- [Psalm 81:1-16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-811-16/): Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
- [Jeremiah 2:4-13](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-24-13/): Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel.
- [Psalm 103:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1031-8/): Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
- [Isaiah 58:9-14](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-589-14/): Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.'
- [Luke 13:10-17](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-1310-17/): Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself.
- [Psalm 71:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-711-6-2/): In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me! Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
- [Hebrews 12:18-29](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-1218-29/): For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.
- [Jeremiah 1:4-10](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-14-10-2/): Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
- [Luke 12:49-56](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-1249-56/): I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth?
- [Hebrews 11:29-12:2](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-1129-122/): By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.
- [Psalm 82](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-82-2/): God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
- [Jeremiah 23:23-29](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-2323-29/): Am I a God at hand, declares the LORD, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.
- [Psalm 80:1-19](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-801-19/): Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
- [Isaiah 5:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-51-7/): Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
- [Psalm 33:12-22](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-3312-22/): Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
- [Genesis 15:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-151-6/): After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great." But Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
- [Luke 12:32-40](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-1232-40/): "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
- [Psalm 50:1-8,22-23](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-501-822-23/): The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
- [Isaiah 1:1, 10-20](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-11-10-20/): Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! "What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
- [Psalm 49:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-491-12/): Hear this, all peoples! Give ear, all inhabitants of the world, both low and high, rich and poor together! My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding. I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:18-23](https://fccgulfport.org/ecclesiastes-218-23/): I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me, and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity. So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun, because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.
- [Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14](https://fccgulfport.org/ecclesiastes-12-12-14/): Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
- [Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-111-3-8-16/): Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
- [Luke 12:13-21](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-1213-21/): Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?" And he said to them, "Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.
- [Colossians 3:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/colossians-31-11/): If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
- [Psalm 107:1-9, 43](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1071-9-43/): Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
- [Hosea 11:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/hosea-111-11/): When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.
- [Psalm 138](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-138-3/): I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise; I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word. On the day I called, you answered me; my strength of soul you increased.
- [Genesis 18:20-32](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-1820-32/): Then the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave, I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know."
- [Luke 11:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-111-13/): Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." And he said to them, "When you pray, say: "Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation."
- [Colossians 2:6-19](https://fccgulfport.org/colossians-26-19/): Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
- [Psalm 85](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-85/): LORD, you were favorable to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob. You forgave the iniquity of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger.
- [Hosea 1:2-10](https://fccgulfport.org/hosea-12-10/): When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD." So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
- [Psalm 15](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-15/): O LORD, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend; in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the LORD; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
- [Genesis 18:1-10a](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-181-10a/): And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day. He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him.
- [Luke 10:38-42](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-1038-42/): Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching.
- [Colossians 1:15-28](https://fccgulfport.org/colossians-115-28/): He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together
- [Psalm 52](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-52/): Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day. Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
- [Amos 8:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/amos-81-12/): This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. And he said, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them. The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," declares the Lord GOD. "So many dead bodies!" "They are thrown everywhere!" "Silence!"
- [Psalm 25:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-251-10-3/): O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me. Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
- [Deuteronomy 30:9-14](https://fccgulfport.org/deuteronomy-309-14/): The LORD your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers, when you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
- [Luke 10:25-37](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-1025-37/): And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?" And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."
- [Colossians 1:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/colossians-11-14/): Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven
- [Psalm 82](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-82/): God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
- [Amos 7:7-17](https://fccgulfport.org/amos-77-17/): This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line."
- [Psalm 66:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-661-9/): Shout for joy to God, all the earth; sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise! Say to God, "How awesome are your deeds!
- [Isaiah 66:10-14](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-6610-14/): "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her; that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious abundance."
- [Luke 10:1-20](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-101-20/): After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. And he said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
- [Galatians 6:1-16](https://fccgulfport.org/galatians-61-16/): Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load.
- [Psalm 30](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-30-2/): I will extol you, O LORD, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me. O LORD my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
- [2 Kings 5:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/2-kings-51-14/): Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of Naaman's wife. She said to her mistress, "Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy." So Naaman went in and told his lord, "Thus and so spoke the girl from the land of Israel." And the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel."
- [Psalm 16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-16-2/): Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the LORD, "You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you."
- [1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21](https://fccgulfport.org/1-kings-1915-16-19-21/): And the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
- [Luke 9:51-62](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-951-62/): When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him.
- [Galatians 5:1, 13-25](https://fccgulfport.org/galatians-51-13-25/): For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
- [Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-771-2-11-20/): I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me. In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.
- [2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14](https://fccgulfport.org/2-kings-21-2-6-14/): Now when the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.
- [Galatians 3:23-29](https://fccgulfport.org/galatians-323-29/): Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.
- [Psalm 22:19-28](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-2219-28/): But you, O LORD, do not be far off! O you my help, come quickly to my aid! Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog!
- [Genesis 24:34-67](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-2434-67/): And he said, I am Abraham's servant. And Jehovah hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and asses.
- [Matthew 10:40-42](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-1040-42/): He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
- [Romans 6:12-23](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-612-23/): Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof: neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
- [Psalm 89:1-18](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-891-18/): I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever: With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.
- [Jeremiah 28:5-9](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-285-9/): Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of Jehovah, even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Jehovah do so; Jehovah perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Jehovah's house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon unto this place.
- [Psalm 13](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-13/): How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
- [Genesis 22:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-221-14/): And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
- [Matthew 10:24-39](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-1024-39/): A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord.
- [Romans 6:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-61-11/): What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
- [Psalm 69](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-69/): Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- [Jeremiah 20:7-13](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-207-13/): O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.
- [Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-861-10-16-17/): Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me; For I am poor and needy. Preserve my soul; for I am godly: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
- [Genesis 21:8-21](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-218-21/): And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, mocking.
- [Psalm 100](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-100/): Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
- [Psalm 31:9-16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-319-16-3/): Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
- [Matthew 27:11-54](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-2711-54/): Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said, "You have said so." But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer.
- [Matthew 26:14-27:66](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-2614-2766/): Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.
- [Philippians 2:5-11](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-25-11-5/): Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
- [Isaiah 50:4-9a](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-504-9a-5/): The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary.
- [John 11:1-45](https://fccgulfport.org/john-111-45/): Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.
- [Romans 8:6-11](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-86-11/): For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
- [Ezekiel 37:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/ezekiel-371-14-2/): The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.
- [Psalm 45](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-45-3/): TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO LILIES. A MASKIL OF THE SONS OF KORAH; A LOVE SONG.
- [Luke 1:26-38](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-126-38-4/): In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary.
- [Psalm 40:5-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-405-10-3/): You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
- [Hebrews 10:4-10](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-104-10-3/): "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings, you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book."
- [Isaiah 7:10-14](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-710-14-3/): Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz: "Ask a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven."
- [Psalm 23](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-23-4/): The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul.
- [John 9:1-41](https://fccgulfport.org/john-91-41/): As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
- [Ephesians 5:8-14](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-58-14/): for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
- [1 Samuel 16:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-161-13/): The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons."
- [Psalm 95](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-95/): Oh come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
- [John 4:5-42](https://fccgulfport.org/john-45-42/): So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
- [Romans 5:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-51-11/): Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him, we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- [Exodus 17:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/exodus-171-7/): All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
- [Psalm 24:7-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-247-10-3/): Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
- [Psalm 84](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-84-3/): How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
- [Luke 2:22-40](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-222-40-3/): And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord.
- [Hebrews 2:14-18](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-214-18-2/): Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
- [Malachi 3:1-4](https://fccgulfport.org/malachi-31-4-3/): Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.
- [Psalm 15](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-15-2/): O LORD, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill?
- [Matthew 5:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-51-12/): Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.
- [1 Corinthians 1:18-31](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-118-31-3/): For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written,
- [Micah 6:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/micah-61-8/): Hear what the LORD says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
- [Psalm 27:1, 4-9](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-271-4-9/): The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
- [Matthew 4:12-23](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-412-23/): Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee.
- [1 Corinthians 1:10-18](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-110-18/): I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
- [Isaiah 9:1-4](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-91-4/): But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish.
- [Psalm 40:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-401-11/): he inclined to me and heard my cry.
- [John 1:29-42](https://fccgulfport.org/john-129-42/): The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- [1 Corinthians 1:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-11-9/): Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- [Isaiah 49:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-491-7-3/): Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar.
- [Psalm 8](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-8-5/): For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth, Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens!
- [Matthew 25:31-46](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-2531-46/): But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats; and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
- [Revelation 21:1-6a](https://fccgulfport.org/revelation-211-6a-2/): And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.
- [Ecclesiastes 3:10-19](https://fccgulfport.org/ecclesiastes-310-19/): I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith. He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.
- [Psalm 98](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-98-4/): Oh sing unto Jehovah a new song; For he hath done marvellous things: His right hand, and his holy arm, hath wrought salvation for him.
- [John 1:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/john-11-14-2/): In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.
- [Hebrews 1:1-4, (5-12)](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-11-4-5-12-2/): God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son.
- [Isaiah 52:7-10](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-527-10-2/): How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
- [Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-801-7-17-19-2/): Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest above the cherubim, shine forth.
- [Matthew 1:18-25](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-118-25/): Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.
- [Romans 1:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-11-7/): Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, which he promised afore through his prophets in the holy scriptures.
- [Isaiah 7:10-16](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-710-16/): And Jehovah spake again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above
- [James 5:7-10](https://fccgulfport.org/james-57-10/): Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.
- [Psalm 146:5-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1465-10/): Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in Jehovah his God: Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that in them is; Who keepeth truth for ever; Who executeth justice for the oppressed; Who giveth food to the hungry.
- [Matthew 11:2-11](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-112-11/): Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Christ, he sent by his disciples and said unto him, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?
- [Luke 1:46b-55](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-146b-55-4/): And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath looked upon the low estate of his handmaid: For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; And holy is his name.
- [Isaiah 35:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-351-10/): The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of Jehovah, the excellency of our God.
- [2 Thessalonians 2:1-17](https://fccgulfport.org/2-thessalonians-21-17/): Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him; to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand; let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
- [Psalm 17:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-171-9/): Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry; Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; Let thine eyes look upon equity.
- [Job 19:23-27](https://fccgulfport.org/job-1923-27/): Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!
- [Luke 20:27-38](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-2027-38/): And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, that if a man's brother die, having a wife, and he be childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
- [Psalm 98](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-98-3/): Oh sing unto Jehovah a new song; For he hath done marvellous things: His right hand, and his holy arm, hath wrought salvation for him. Jehovah hath made known his salvation: His righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the nations.
- [Psalm 145:1-21](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1451-21/): I will extol thee, my God, O King; And I will bless thy name for ever and ever. Every day will I bless thee; And I will praise thy name for ever and ever. Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised; And his greatness is unsearchable.
- [Haggai 1:15b-2:9](https://fccgulfport.org/haggai-115b-29/): In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying, Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying, Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?
- [Ephesians 1:11-23](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-111-23/): in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will; to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ: in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,—in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, unto the praise of his glory.
- [Luke 6:20-31](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-620-31/): And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed are ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled.
- [Psalm 149](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-149/): Praise ye Jehovah. Sing unto Jehovah a new song, And his praise in the assembly of the saints. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let them praise his name in the dance: Let them sing praises unto him with timbrel and harp. For Jehovah taketh pleasure in his people: He will beautify the meek with salvation.
- [Daniel 7:1-18](https://fccgulfport.org/daniel-71-18/): In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
- [Psalm 32:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-321-7/): Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
- [Luke 19:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-191-10/): And he entered and was passing through Jericho. And behold, a man called by name Zacchaeus; and he was a chief publican, and he was rich. And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the crowd, because he was little of stature.
- [Isaiah 1:10-18](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-110-18/): Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
- [Psalm 119:137-144](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-119137-144/): Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your rules. You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness.
- [2 Thessalonians 1:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/2-thessalonians-11-12/): Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- [Habakkuk 1:14, 2:1-4](https://fccgulfport.org/habakkuk-114-21-4/): You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.
- [Psalm 84:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-841-7/): How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
- [Jeremiah 14:7-22](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-147-22/): Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O LORD, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you. O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?
- [Sirach 35:12-17](https://fccgulfport.org/sirach-3512-17/): Do not think to corrupt with gifts; for such he will not receive: And trust not to unrighteous sacrifices; For the Lord is judge, And with him is no respect of persons
- [Psalm 65](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-65/): Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed. O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come. When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions.
- [Joel 2:23-32](https://fccgulfport.org/joel-223-32/): Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.
- [Psalm 121](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-121/): I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
- [Genesis 32:22-31](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-3222-31/): The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. And Jacob was left alone.
- [Luke 18:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-181-8/): And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.
- [2 Timothy 3:14-4:5](https://fccgulfport.org/2-timothy-314-45/): But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
- [Psalm 119:97-104](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-11997-104/): Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.
- [Jeremiah 31:27-34](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-3127-34/): Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.
- [Philippians 4:4-9](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-44-9/): Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
- [John 6:25-35](https://fccgulfport.org/john-625-35/): When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?" Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal."
- [Deuteronomy 26:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/deuteronomy-261-11/): When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.
- [Isaiah 40:21-31](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-4021-31/): Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
- [Luke 2:22–40](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-222-40-5/): And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord") and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, "a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons."
- [Hebrews 2:14-18](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-214-18-3/): Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
- [Psalm 24:7-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-247-10-4/): Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory?
- [Malachi 3:1-4](https://fccgulfport.org/malachi-31-4-4/): ehold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.
- [Mark 1:4-11](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-14-11-2/): John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
- [Acts 19:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-191-7-2/): And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus.
- [Psalm 29](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-29-4/): Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
- [Genesis 1:1-5](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-11-5-2/): In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- [John 1:(1-9), 10-18](https://fccgulfport.org/john-11-9-10-18-2/): In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
- [Ephesians 1:3-14](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-13-14-3/): Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.
- [Psalm 147:12-20](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-14712-20-2/): Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion! For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.
- [Jeremiah 31:7-14](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-317-14-2/): Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'
- [Matthew 2:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-21-12-3/): Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him."
- [Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-721-7-10-14-3/): Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!
- [Ephesians 3:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-31-12-3/): For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly.
- [Isaiah 60:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-601-6-3/): Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee.
- [Matthew 25:31-46](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-2531-46-3/): But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats; and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
- [Revelation 21:1-6a](https://fccgulfport.org/revelation-211-6a-3/): And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.
- [Psalm 8](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-8-7/): When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
- [Ecclesiastes 3:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/ecclesiastes-31-13/): For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted
- [Luke 2:15-21](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-215-21-3/): And it came to pass, when the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing that is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
- [Psalm 8](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-8-6/): O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth, Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens!
- [Philippians 2:5-11](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-25-11-6/): Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
- [Numbers 6:22-27](https://fccgulfport.org/numbers-622-27-3/): And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel: ye shall say unto them
- [Luke 2:22-40](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-222-40-4/): And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord
- [Galatians 4:4-7](https://fccgulfport.org/galatians-44-7-4/): but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
- [Psalm 148](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-148-4/): Praise ye Jehovah. Praise ye Jehovah from the heavens
- [Isaiah 61:10-62:3](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-6110-623-2/): I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful in my God.
- [Hebrews 1:1-4, (5-12)](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-11-4-5-12-3/): Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son
- [Psalm 98](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-98-5/): Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things!
- [John 1:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/john-11-14-3/): In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- [Isaiah 52:7-10](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-527-10-3/): How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,
- [Luke 2:(1-7), 8-20](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-21-7-8-20/): "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!"
- [Titus 3:4-7](https://fccgulfport.org/titus-34-7/): But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
- [Psalm 97](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-97-2/): The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!
- [Isaiah 62:6-12](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-626-12/): On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent.
- [Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-21-14-15-20-2/): In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.
- [Titus 2:11-14](https://fccgulfport.org/titus-211-14-2/): For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions
- [Psalm 96](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-96-2/): Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.
- [Isaiah 9:2-7](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-92-7-2/): The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,
- [Luke 1:26-38](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-126-38-5/): In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary.
- [Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-891-4-19-26-2/): I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
- [Romans 16:25-27](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-1625-27-2/): Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith— to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
- [2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16](https://fccgulfport.org/2-samuel-71-11-16-2/): Now when the king lived in his house and the LORD had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent."
- [John 1:6-8, 19-28](https://fccgulfport.org/john-16-8-19-28-2/): There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
- [1 Thessalonians 5:16-24](https://fccgulfport.org/1-thessalonians-516-24-2/): Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit.
- [Luke 1:46b-55](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-146b-55-5/): My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant.
- [Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-611-4-8-11-2/): The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor;
- [Mark 1:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-11-8-2/): The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,' " John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey. And he preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."
- [2 Peter 3:8-15a](https://fccgulfport.org/2-peter-38-15a-2/): But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
- [Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-851-2-8-13-2/): Jehovah, thou hast been favorable unto thy land; Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah
- [Isaiah 40:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-401-11-2/): Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.
- [Mark 13:24-37](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-1324-37-2/): But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
- [1 Corinthians 1:3-9](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-13-9-2/): Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- [Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-801-7-17-19-3/): But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself! Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name! Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!
- [Isaiah 64:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-641-9/): But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
- [Matthew 25:31-46](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-2531-46-2/): When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
- [Ephesians 1:15-23](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-115-23-3/): For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
- [Psalm 95:1-7a](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-951-7a/): Oh come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
- [Psalm 100](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-100-2/): Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
- [Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24](https://fccgulfport.org/ezekiel-3411-16-20-24/): For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out.
- [Luke 17:11-19](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-1711-19-2/): On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.
- [2 Corinthians 9:6-15](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-96-15/): "He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever."
- [Psalm 65](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-65-2/): Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed. O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come.
- [Deuteronomy 8:7-18](https://fccgulfport.org/deuteronomy-87-18/): And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.
- [Matthew 25:14-30](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-2514-30/): For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
- [1 Thessalonians 5:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/1-thessalonians-51-11/): Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
- [Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18](https://fccgulfport.org/zephaniah-17-12-18-2/): Be silent before the Lord GOD! For the day of the LORD is near; the LORD has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his guests.
- [Psalm 90:1-8, (9-11), 12](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-901-8-9-11-12/): Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
- [Psalm 123](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-123/): To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
- [Judges 4:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/judges-41-7-2/): And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD after Ehud died. And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor.
- [Matthew 25:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-251-13/): Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
- [1 Thessalonians 4:13-18](https://fccgulfport.org/1-thessalonians-413-18/): But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
- [Psalm 70](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-70-3/): Make haste, O God, to deliver me!
- [Amos 5:18-24](https://fccgulfport.org/amos-518-24/): Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why would you have the day of the LORD?
- [Psalm 78:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-781-7-2/): Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
- [Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25](https://fccgulfport.org/joshua-241-3a-14-25-2/): Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel.
- [Matthew 23:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-231-12/): Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do."
- [1 Thessalonians 2:9-13](https://fccgulfport.org/1-thessalonians-29-13/): For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
- [Psalm 43](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-43/): Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
- [Micah 3:5-12](https://fccgulfport.org/micah-35-12/): Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry "Peace" when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths. Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination.
- [Psalm 107:1-7, 33-37](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1071-7-33-37/): The LORD said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you."
- [Joshua 3:7-17](https://fccgulfport.org/joshua-37-17/): The LORD said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. And as for you, command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.' "
- [Matthew 5:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-51-12-2/): Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.
- [1 John 3:1-3](https://fccgulfport.org/1-john-31-3/): See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
- [Psalm 34:1-10,22](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-341-1022/): I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad.
- [Revelation 7:9-17](https://fccgulfport.org/revelation-79-17-2/): After this, I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb
- [Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-13-1-9-18-23/): That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down.
- [Romans 8:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-81-11/): There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
- [Psalm 65:(1-8), 9-13](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-651-8-9-13/): Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed.
- [Isaiah 55:10-13](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-5510-13/): For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
- [Psalm 119:105-112](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-119105-112/): Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path. I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will observe thy righteous ordinances.
- [Genesis 25:19-34](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-2519-34/): And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac: and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
- [Matthew 11:16-30](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-1116-30/): But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the marketplaces, who call unto their fellows and say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not mourn. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a demon.
- [Romans 7:15-25](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-715-25/): For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.
- [Psalm 145:8-14](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1458-14/): Jehovah is gracious, and merciful; Slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness. Jehovah is good to all; And his tender mercies are over all his works.
- [Zechariah 9:9-12](https://fccgulfport.org/zechariah-99-12/): Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass.
- [Song of Solomon 2:8-13](https://fccgulfport.org/song-of-solomon-28-13/): The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh, Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills. My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: Behold, he standeth behind our wall; He looketh in at the windows; He glanceth through the lattice.
- [Psalm 45:10-17](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-4510-17/): Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house: So will the king desire thy beauty; For he is thy lord; and reverence thou him.
- [Hebrews 2:14-18](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-214-18-4/): 14 Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
- [Malachi 3:1-4](https://fccgulfport.org/malachi-31-4-5/): 1 See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight-indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
- [Luke 4:14-21](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-414-21-2/): 14 Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country.
- [1 Corinthians 12:12-31a](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-1212-31a-2/): 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
- [Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10](https://fccgulfport.org/nehemiah-81-3-5-6-8-10-2/): 1 all the people gathered together into the square before the Water Gate. They told the scribe Ezra to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had given to Israel.
- [John 2:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/john-21-11-2/): 1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
- [1 Corinthians 12:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-121-11-2/): 1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.
- [Isaiah 62:1-5](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-621-5-2/): 1 For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her vindication shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning torch.
- [Luke 3:15-17, 21-22](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-315-17-21-22-2/): 15 As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah,
- [Acts 8:14-17](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-814-17-2/): 14 Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.
- [Isaiah 43:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-431-7-2/): 1 But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.
- [Matthew 2:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-21-12-4/): 1 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem,
- [Ephesians 3:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-31-12-4/): 1 This is the reason that I Paul am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles- 2 for surely you have already heard of the commission of God's grace that was given me for you,
- [Isaiah 60:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-601-6-4/): 1 Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
- [John 1:(1-9), 10-18](https://fccgulfport.org/john-11-9-10-18-3/): 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God.
- [Ephesians 1:3-14](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-13-14-4/): Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
- [Jeremiah 31:7-14](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-317-14-3/): For thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, "Save, O Lord, your people, the remnant of Israel."
- [Matthew 25:31-46](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-2531-46-4/): 31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
- [Revelation 21:1-6a](https://fccgulfport.org/revelation-211-6a-5/): 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
- [Ecclesiastes 3:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/ecclesiastes-31-13-2/): For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
- [Luke 2:41-52](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-241-52-2/): Now every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover.
- [Colossians 3:12-17](https://fccgulfport.org/colossians-312-17-2/): As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.
- [1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-218-20-26-2/): Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy wearing a linen ephod.
- [John 1:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/john-11-14-4/): 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God
- [Hebrews 1:1-4, (5-12)](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-11-4-5-12-4/): 1 Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets,
- [Isaiah 52:7-10](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-527-10-4/): 7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation,
- [Luke 1:46b-55](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-146b-55-6/): 46 And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord, 47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
- [Luke 1:39-45, (46-55)](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-139-45-46-55-2/): 39 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40 where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit 42 and exclaimed with a loud cry, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. 43 And why has this happened to me, that the mother of my Lord comes to me? 44 For as soon as I heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leaped for joy. 45 And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord." 46 And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord, 47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, 48 for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant. Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed; 49 for the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name. 50 His mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. 51 He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. 52 He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; 53 he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty. 54 He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, 55 according to the promise he made to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants forever."
- [Hebrews 10:5-10](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-105-10-2/): 5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me;
- [Micah 5:2-5a](https://fccgulfport.org/micah-52-5a/): 2 But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.
- [Revelation 21:1-6a](https://fccgulfport.org/revelation-211-6a-4/): Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
- [John 11:32-44](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1132-44-2/): When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
- [Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/wisdom-of-solomon-31-9/): But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them.
- [Jeremiah 31:7-9](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-317-9-2/): For thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, "Save, O Lord, your people, the remnant of Israel."
- [Mark 10:46-52](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-1046-52-2/): They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside.
- [Hebrews 7:23-28](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-723-28-2/): Furthermore, the former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office; but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.
- [Job 42:1-6, 10-17](https://fccgulfport.org/job-421-6-10-17-2/): Then Job answered the Lord: "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted."
- [Isaiah 53:4-12](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-534-12-2/): Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
- [Mark 10:35-45](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-1035-45-2/): James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you."
- [Hebrews 5:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-51-10-2/): Every high priest chosen from among mortals is put in charge of things pertaining to God on their behalf, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
- [Job 38:1-7, (34-41)](https://fccgulfport.org/job-381-7-34-41-2/): Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
- [Amos 5:6-7, 10-15](https://fccgulfport.org/amos-56-7-10-15-2/): Seek the Lord and live, or he will break out against the house of Joseph like fire, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.
- [Mark 10:17-31](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-1017-31-2/): As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
- [1 Timothy 2:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/1-timothy-21-7-3/): First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity.
- [Matthew 6:25-33](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-625-33-3/): "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
- [Joel 2:21-27](https://fccgulfport.org/joel-221-27-3/): Do not fear, O soil; be glad and rejoice, for the Lord has done great things!
- [Hebrews 4:12-16](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-412-16-2/): Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- [Job 23:1-9, 16-17](https://fccgulfport.org/job-231-9-16-17/): Then Job answered: "Today also my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- [Genesis 2:18-24](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-218-24-2/): Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner."
- [Mark 10:2-16](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-102-16-2/): Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
- [Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12](https://fccgulfport.org/hebrews-11-4-25-12-2/): Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds.
- [Job 1:1, 2:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/job-11-21-10/): There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
- [Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29](https://fccgulfport.org/numbers-114-6-10-16-24-29-2/): The rabble among them had a strong craving; and the Israelites also wept again, and said, "If only we had meat to eat!
- [Mark 9:38-50](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-938-50-2/): John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us."
- [James 5:13-20](https://fccgulfport.org/james-513-20-3/): Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise.
- [Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22](https://fccgulfport.org/esther-71-6-9-10-920-22/): So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.
- [Mark 4:35-41](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-435-41-2/): On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side."
- [2 Corinthians 6:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-61-13-2/): As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.
- [Job 38:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/job-381-11-2/): Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
- [1 Samuel 17:(1a, 4-11, 19-23), 32-49](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-171a-4-11-19-23-32-49/): Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
- [Mark 4:26-34](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-426-34-2/): He also said, "The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.
- [2 Corinthians 5:6-10, (11-13), 14-17](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-56-10-11-13-14-17/): So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord- for we walk by faith, not by sight.
- [Ezekiel 17:22-24](https://fccgulfport.org/ezekiel-1722-24-2/): Thus says the Lord God: I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of a cedar; I will set it out. I will break off a tender one from the topmost of its young twigs; I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
- [1 Samuel 15:34 - 16:13](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-1534-1613-2/): Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul. Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord was sorry that he had made Saul king over Israel.
- [Mark 3:20-35](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-320-35-2/): When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, "He has gone out of his mind."
- [2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-413-51-2/): But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture-"I believed, and so I spoke" -we also believe, and so we speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his presence.
- [Genesis 3:8-15](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-38-15-2/): They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
- [1 Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15)](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-84-11-12-15-16-20-1114-15/): Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, "You are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations."
- [Luke 1:39-57](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-139-57-3/): In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.
- [Romans 12:9-16b](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-129-16b-3/): Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
- [Samuel 2:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/samuel-21-10/): Hannah prayed and said, "My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in my God. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in my victory.
- [Romans 8:12-17](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-812-17-2/): So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
- [Isaiah 6:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-61-8-2/): In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple.
- [John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1526-27-164b-15/): When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf.
- [Romans 8:22-27](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-822-27-2/): We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
- [Psalm 104:24-34, 35b](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-10424-34-35b-3/): O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
- [Acts 2:1-21](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-21-21-5/): And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
- [John 2:13-22](https://fccgulfport.org/john-213-22/): The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- [1 Corinthians 1:18-25](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-118-25/): For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- [Psalm 19](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-19-3/): The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
- [Exodus 20:1-17](https://fccgulfport.org/exodus-201-17/): Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;
- [Mark 9:2-9](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-92-9-4/): 2 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves.
- [Romans 4:13-25](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-413-25-2/): For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
- [Psalm 22:23-31](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-2223-31-2/): You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him; stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
- [Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-171-7-15-16-2/): When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
- [Mark 1:9-15](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-19-15-2/): In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
- [1 Peter 3:18-22](https://fccgulfport.org/1-peter-318-22-2/): For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,
- [Psalm 25:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-251-10-4/): To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
- [Genesis 9:8-17](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-98-17-2/): Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
- [Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-61-6-16-21-3/): "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven.
- [2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-520b-610-3/): So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
- [Psalm 51:1-17](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-511-17-3/): Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
- [Isaiah 58:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-581-12-3/): Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins.
- [2 Corinthians 4:3-6](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-43-6-2/): And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
- [Mark 9:2-9](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-92-9-3/): Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,
- [Psalm 50:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-501-6-2/): The mighty one, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
- [2 Kings 2:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/2-kings-21-12-2/): Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.
- [Mark 1:29-39](https://fccgulfport.org/mark-129-39/): As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
- [1 Corinthians 9:16-23](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-916-23/): If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel!
- [Psalm 147:1-11, 20c](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1471-11-20c/): Praise the Lord! How good it is to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting.
- [Isaiah 45:1-7](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-451-7/): Isaiah 45:1-7 (New Revised Standard Version) 1 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their robes, to open doors before him— and the gates shall not be closed: 2 I will go before you and level the mountains, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron, 3 I will give you the treasures of darkness and riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.
- [Psalm 99](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-99-3/): Psalm 99 (New Revised Standard Version) 1 The Lord is king; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!
- [Psalm 96:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-961-9/): Psalm 96:1-9 (New Revised Standard Version) 1 O sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.
- [Philippians 4:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-41-9/): Philippians 4:1-9 (New Revised Standard Version) 1 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.
- [Psalm 23](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-23-6/): Psalm 23 (New Revised Standard Version) 1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.
- [Isaiah 25:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-251-9/): Isaiah 25:1-9 (New Revised Standard Version) 1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
- [Matthew 20:1-16](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-201-16/): 1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
- [Psalm 145:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1451-8/): 1 I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.
- [Philippians 1:21-30](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-121-30/): 21 For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain. 22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which I prefer.
- [Matthew 16:21-28](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-1621-28/): 21 From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
- [Romans 12:9-21](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-129-21/): 9 Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; 10 love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
- [Exodus 3:1-15](https://fccgulfport.org/exodus-31-15/): 1 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- [Matthew 14:13-21](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-1413-21/): 3 Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.
- [Isaiah 55:1-5](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-551-5/): 1 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. 3 Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. 4 See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. 5 See, you shall call nations that you do not know, and nations that do not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
- [Genesis 32:22-31](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-3222-31-2/): 22 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had.
- [Psalm 119:105-112](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-119105-112-2/): 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 106 I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to observe your righteous ordinances.
- [Romans 8:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-81-11-2/): 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
- [Isaiah 55:10-13](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-5510-13-2/): 10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
- [Yoked](https://fccgulfport.org/yoked/): I want to begin this morning with a question for all of us.
- [Cost](https://fccgulfport.org/cost/): Beloved, there are some scriptures that do not let us stay comfortable.
- [Compassion at the Door](https://fccgulfport.org/compassion-at-the-door/): Our scriptures today bring us to the door.
- [Song of Solomon 2:8-13](https://fccgulfport.org/song-of-solomon-28-13-2/): 8 The voice of my beloved! Look, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills. 9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice.
- [Romans 7:15-25a](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-715-25a/): 15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. 17 But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
- [Zechariah 9:9-12](https://fccgulfport.org/zechariah-99-12-2/): 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- [Romans 5:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-51-8/): Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
- [Psalm 100](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-100-3/): 1 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. 2 Worship the Lord with gladness; come into his presence with singing.
- [Genesis 18:1-15, (21:1-7)](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-181-15-211-7/): 1 The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. 2 He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them, and bowed down to the ground. 3 He said, "My lord, if I find favor with you, do not pass by your servant.
- [Psalm 8](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-8-8/): 1 O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger.
- [Matthew 28:16-20](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-2816-20/): 16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.
- [Genesis 1:1-2:4a](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-11-24a/): 1 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, 2 the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. 3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
- [John 7:37-39](https://fccgulfport.org/john-737-39/): 37 On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, 38 and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, 'Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water.'"
- [John 20:19-23](https://fccgulfport.org/john-2019-23/): 19 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you."
- [Acts 2:1-21](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-21-21-6/): 1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.
- [Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-681-10-32-35/): 1 Let God rise up, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before him. 2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish before God.
- [John 17:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/john-171-11/): 1 After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
- [Acts 1:6-14](https://fccgulfport.org/acts-16-14/): 6 So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?" 7 He replied, "It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.
- [Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-311-5-15-16/): 1 In you, O Lord, I seek refuge; do not let me ever be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me. 2 Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily. Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me.
- [John 14:1-14](https://fccgulfport.org/john-141-14/): 1 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And you know the way to the place where I am going."
- [1 Peter 2:2-10](https://fccgulfport.org/1-peter-22-10/): 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation- 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
- [Psalm 23](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-23-5/): 1 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters;
- [John 10:1-10](https://fccgulfport.org/john-101-10/): 1 "Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
- [1 Peter 2:19-25](https://fccgulfport.org/1-peter-219-25/): 9 For it is a credit to you if, being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering unjustly. 20 If you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, what credit is that? But if you endure when you do right and suffer for it, you have God's approval.
- [Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-1161-4-12-19/): 1 I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. 3 The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. 4 Then I called on the name of the Lord: "O Lord, I pray, save my life!"
- [Luke 24:13-35](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-2413-35/): 13 Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, 14 and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. 15 While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, 16 but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
- [1 Peter 1:17-23](https://fccgulfport.org/1-peter-117-23/): 17 If you invoke as Father the one who judges all people impartially according to their deeds, live in reverent fear during the time of your exile. 18 You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,
- [Luke 24:13-49](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-2413-49-2/): 13 Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, 14 and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. 15 While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, 16 but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
- [1 Corinthians 5:6b-8](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-56b-8-2/): 6 Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch, as you really are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.
- [Isaiah 25:6-9](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-256-9-3/): 6 On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear. 7 And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up death forever.
- [Psalm 31:9-16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-319-16-5/): 9 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye wastes away from grief, my soul and body also. 10 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.
- [Matthew 26:14-27:66](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-2614-2766-2/): 14 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, "What will you give me if I betray him to you?" They paid him thirty pieces of silver.
- [Philippians 2:5-11](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-25-11-8/): 5 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited,
- [John 9:1-41](https://fccgulfport.org/john-91-41-2/): 1 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" 3 Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God's works might be revealed in him. 4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work.
- [Ephesians 5:8-14](https://fccgulfport.org/ephesians-58-14-2/): 8 For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light- 9 for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.
- [1 Samuel 16:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/1-samuel-161-13-2/): The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons." 2 Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears of it, he will kill me." And the Lord said, "Take a heifer with you, and say, 'I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.'
- [Psalm 95](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-95-2/): O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! 2 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! 3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
- [John 4:5-42](https://fccgulfport.org/john-45-42-2/): 5 So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. 7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
- [Romans 5:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-51-11-2/): 1 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
- [Psalm 121](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-121-2/): 1 I lift up my eyes to the hills- from where will my help come? 2 My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.
- [John 3:1-17](https://fccgulfport.org/john-31-17-2/): 1 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2 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."
- [Genesis 12:1-4a](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-121-4a/): 1 Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
- [Psalm 51:1-17](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-511-17-4/): Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
- [Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-61-6-16-21-4/): 1 "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 "So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.
- [Isaiah 58:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-581-12-4/): 1 Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God.
- [Psalm 99](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-99-2/): 1 The Lord is king; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake! 2 The Lord is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples.
- [Matthew 17:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-171-9/): 1 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. 2 And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white.
- [2 Peter 1:16-21](https://fccgulfport.org/2-peter-116-21/): 16 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty.
- [Matthew 5:1-12](https://fccgulfport.org/matthew-51-12-3/): 1 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. 2 Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying:
- [1 Corinthians 1:18-31](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-118-31-4/): 18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."
- [Micah 6:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/micah-61-8-2/): 1 Hear what the Lord says: Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. 2 Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
- [John 13:31-35](https://fccgulfport.org/john-1331-35-2/): 31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. 32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. 33 Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.' 34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
- [Revelation 21:1-6](https://fccgulfport.org/revelation-211-6-2/): 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- [Tempted](https://fccgulfport.org/tempted/): Here we have Jesus immediately following his baptism being led to the wilderness where he faces temptation after temptation by the devil. We are not told what all of the temptations are, nor are we told Jesus’ response to those temptations, but we can surmise based on the temptations that are revealed to us that Jesus passed with flying colors even when Jesus was exhausted by hunger after fasting for forty days.
- [Psalm 31:9-16](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-319-16-4/): 9 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye wastes away from grief, my soul and body also. 10 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.
- [Philippians 2:5-11](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-25-11-7/): 5 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited,
- [Luke 23:1-49](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-231-49-2/): 1 Then the assembly rose as a body and brought Jesus before Pilate. 2 They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to the emperor, and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king."
- [John 12:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/john-121-8-2/): 1 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 2 There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.
- [Philippians 3:4b-14](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-34b-14-2/): even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
- [Isaiah 43:16-21](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-4316-21-2/): Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, 17 who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:
- [Psalm 32](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-32-2/): 1 Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
- [2 Corinthians 5:16-21](https://fccgulfport.org/2-corinthians-516-21-2/): 16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way.
- [Joshua 5:9-12](https://fccgulfport.org/joshua-59-12-2/): The Lord said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt." And so that place is called Gilgal to this day. 10 While the Israelites were camped in Gilgal they kept the passover in the evening on the fourteenth day of the month in the plains of Jericho.
- [Psalm 63:1-8](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-631-8-2/): O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
- [1 Corinthians 10:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-101-13-2/): I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
- [Isaiah 55:1-9](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-551-9-2/): Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
- [Psalm 27](https://fccgulfport.org/psalm-27-2/): 1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh- my adversaries and foes- they shall stumble and fall.
- [Philippians 3:17-4:1](https://fccgulfport.org/philippians-317-41-2/): 17 Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us. 18 For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears.
- [Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-151-12-17-18-2/): 1 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, "Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."
- [Luke 4:1-13](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-41-13/): Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, 2 where for forty days he was tempted by the devil.
- [Romans 10:8b-13](https://fccgulfport.org/romans-108b-13/): But what does it say? "The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);
- [Deuteronomy 26:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/deuteronomy-261-11-2/): 1 When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it,
- [Luke 6:27-38](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-627-38-2/): But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
- [1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-1535-38-42-50/): But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
- [Genesis 45:3-11, 15](https://fccgulfport.org/genesis-453-11-15-2/): Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, so dismayed were they at his presence.
- [Luke 6:17-26](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-617-26-2/): 17 He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon.
- [1 Corinthians 15:12-20](https://fccgulfport.org/15109-2/): 12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised;
- [Jeremiah 17:5-10](https://fccgulfport.org/jeremiah-175-10-2/): 5 Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord.
- [Luke 5:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-51-11-2/): 1 Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, 2 he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
- [1 Corinthians 15:1-11](https://fccgulfport.org/1-corinthians-151-11-3/): 1 Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, 2 through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you-unless you have come to believe in vain.
- [Isaiah 6:1-8, (9-13)](https://fccgulfport.org/isaiah-61-8-9-13-2/): 1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. 2 Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.
- [Luke 2:22-40](https://fccgulfport.org/luke-222-40-6/): 22 When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every firstborn male shall be designated as holy to the Lord"),

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