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Oct 5

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  dpillen bookmarked Mark 8:35 MSG

  Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked Mark 8:34 MSG

  Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Read more »

Sep 17

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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:31 MSG

  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. The Way of Love Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:3 MSG

  For instance, by using your heads, you know perfectly well that the Spirit of God would never prompt anyone to say “Jesus be damned!” Nor would anyone be inclined to say “Jesus is Master!” without the insight of the Holy Spirit. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:29 MSG

  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, Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:28 MSG

  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. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 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. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:26 MSG

  the parts we see and the parts we don’t. If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:25 MSG

  The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don’t, Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:24 MSG

  If anything, you have more concern for the lower parts than the higher. If you had to choose, wouldn’t you prefer good digestion to full-bodied hair? Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:23 MSG

  When it’s a part of your own body you are concerned with, it makes no difference whether the part is visible or clothed, higher or lower. You give it dignity and honor just as it is, without comparisons. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:22 MSG

  As a matter of fact, in practice it works the other way—the “lower” the part, the more basic, and therefore necessary. You can live without an eye, for instance, but not without a stomach. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:21 MSG

  Can you imagine Eye telling Hand, “Get lost; I don’t need you”? Or, Head telling Foot, “You’re fired; your job has been phased out”? Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:2 MSG

  Remember how you were when you didn’t know God, led from one phony god to another, never knowing what you were doing, just doing it because everybody else did it? It’s different in this life. God wants us to use our intelligence, to seek to understand as well as we can. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:19 MSG

  But I also want you to think about how this keeps your significance from getting blown up into self-importance. For no matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are a part of. An enormous eye or a gigantic hand wouldn’t be a body, but a monster. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:18 MSG

  As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:17 MSG

  If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:16 MSG

  If Ear said, “I’m not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don’t deserve a place on the head,” would you want to remove it from the body? Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:15 MSG

  If Foot said, “I’m not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don’t belong to this body,” would that make it so? Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:14 MSG

  I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn’t just a single part blown up into something huge. It’s all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:13 MSG

  By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything. (This is what we proclaimed in word and action when we were baptized.) Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and sustained at one fountain—his Spirit—where we all come to drink. The old labels we once used to identify ourselves—labels like Jew or Greek, slave or free—are no longer useful. We need something larger, more comprehensive. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:12 MSG

  You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts—limbs, organs, cells—but no matter how many parts you can name, you’re still one body. It’s exactly the same with Christ. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:11 MSG

  All these gifts have a common origin, but are handed out one by one by the one Spirit of God. He decides who gets what, and when. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:1 MSG

  What I want to talk about now is the various ways God’s Spirit gets worked into our lives. This is complex and often misunderstood, but I want you to be informed and knowledgeable. Read more »
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  dpillen bookmarked 1 Corinthians 12:9 MSG

  simple trust healing the sick Read more »