Clay Baswell

John 10:3

John 10:3 (ESV)
To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Genesis 22:2

Genesis 22:2 (NLT)
“Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

Luke 19:26

Luke 19:26 (MSG)
"He said, 'That's what I mean: Risk your life and get more than you ever dreamed of. Play it safe and end up holding the bag.

Ephesians 5:26

Ephesians 5:26 (MSG)
Christ's love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her,

Ephesians 5:5

Ephesians 5:5 (MSG)
You can be sure that using people or religion or things just for what you can get out of them—the usual variations on idolatry—will get you nowhere, and certainly nowhere near the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:1

Ephesians 5:1 (MSG)
Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

Isaiah 8:17

Isaiah 8:17 (KJV)
And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Matthew 5:34

Matthew 5:34 (MSG)
You only make things worse when you lay down a smoke screen of pious talk, saying, 'I'll pray for you,' and never doing it, or saying, 'God be with you,' and not meaning it. You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

Matthew 5:15

Matthew 5:15 (MSG)
If I make you light-bearers, you don't think I'm going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I'm putting you on a light stand.

Romans 8:25

Romans 8:25 (MSG)
But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.

Romans 8:7

Romans 8:7 (MSG)
Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing.

Psalm 19:9

Psalm 19:9 (KJV)
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

Revelation 2:2

Revelation 2:2 (NLT)
“I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance. I know you don’t tolerate evil people. You have examined the claims of those who say they are apostles but are not. You have discovered they are liars.

Judges 12:6

Judges 12:6 (NLT)
they would tell him to say “Shibboleth.” If he was from Ephraim, he would say “Sibboleth,” because people from Ephraim cannot pronounce the word correctly. Then they would take him and kill him at the shallow crossings of the Jordan. In all, 42,000 Ephraimites were killed at that time.

1 Corinthians 13:11

1 Corinthians 13:11 (NLT)
When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.