Amber Atkins

Ephesians 5:15-16

Ephesians 5:15-16 (NLT)
So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise.

1 Corinthians 12:27

1 Corinthians 12:27 (MSG)
You are Christ's body—that's who you are! You must never forget this. Only as you accept your part of that body does your "part" mean anything. You're familiar with some of the parts that God has formed in his church, which is his "body": apostles prophets teachers miracle workers healers helpers organizers those who pray in tongues. But it's obvious by now, isn't it, that Christ's church is a complete Body and not a gigantic, unidimensional Part? It's not all Apostle, not all Prophet, not all Miracle Worker, not all Healer, not all Prayer in Tongues, not all Interpreter of Tongues. And yet some of you keep competing for so-called "important" parts. But now I want to lay out a far better way for you.

Romans 12:1-21

Romans 12:1-21 (MSG)
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Psalm 42:5

Psalm 42:5 (MSG)
Why are you down in the dumps, dear soul? Why are you crying the blues? Fix my eyes on God— soon I'll be praising again. He puts a smile on my face. He's my God.

Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-12 (MSG)
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem village, Judah territory— this was during Herod's kingship—a band of scholars arrived in Jerusalem from the East. They asked around, "Where can we find and pay homage to the newborn King of the Jews? We observed a star in the eastern sky that signaled his birth. We're on pilgrimage to worship him."

Psalm 105:4-5

Psalm 105:4-5 (NLT)
Search for the LORD and for his strength; continually seek him.

2 Timothy 1:4

2 Timothy 1:4 (MSG)
I miss you a lot, especially when I remember that last tearful good-bye, and I look forward to a joy-packed reunion.

Psalm 147:1

Psalm 147:1 (MSG)
Hallelujah! It's a good thing to sing praise to our God; praise is beautiful, praise is fitting.

2 Corinthians 4:18

2 Corinthians 4:18 (MSG)
There's far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever.

2 Corinthians 4:17

2 Corinthians 4:17 (MSG)
These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us.

2 Corinthians 4:16

2 Corinthians 4:16 (MSG)
So we're not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There's far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever.

Proverbs 4:23

Proverbs 4:23 (MSG)
Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts. Don't talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. Look neither right nor left; leave evil in the dust.

Psalm 103:3

Psalm 103:3 (MSG)
He forgives your sins—every one. He heals your diseases—every one. He redeems you from hell—saves your life! He crowns you with love and mercy—a paradise crown. He wraps you in goodness—beauty eternal. He renews your youth—you're always young in his presence.

2 Peter 2:20

2 Peter 2:20 (MSG)
If they've escaped from the slum of sin by experiencing our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ, and then slid back into that same old life again, they're worse than if they had never left. Better not to have started out on the straight road to God than to start out and then turn back, repudiating the experience and the holy command. They prove the point of the proverbs, "A dog goes back to its own vomit" and "A scrubbed-up pig heads for the mud."

1 John 2:16

1 John 2:16 (MSG)
Practically everything that goes on in the world-wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important-has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him.

Proverbs 17:17

Proverbs 17:17 (MSG)
Friends love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble.

James 1:4

James 1:4 (MSG)
So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.

John 20:31

John 20:31 (MSG)
These are written down so you will believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and in the act of believing, have real and eternal life in the way he personally revealed it.