enrico christion

Isaiah 33:22

Isaiah 33:22 (MSG)
For God makes all the decisions here. God is our king. God runs this place and he'll keep us safe.

advice for the young

Psalm 119:9 (MSG)
How can a young person live a clean life? By carefully reading the map of your Word. I'm single-minded in pursuit of you; don't let me miss the road signs you've posted. I've banked your promises in the vault of my heart so I won't sin myself bankrupt. Be blessed, god; train me in your ways of wise living. I'll transfer to my lips all the counsel that comes from your mouth; I delight far more in what you tell me about living than in gathering a pile of riches. I ponder every morsel of wisdom from you, I attentively watch how you've done it. I relish everything you've told me of life, I won't forget a word of it.

saved

Psalm 118:17 (MSG)
I didn't die. I lived! And now I'm telling the world what god did. god tested me, he pushed me hard, but he didn't hand me over to Death. Swing wide the city gates—the righteous gates! I'll walk right through and thank god! This Temple Gate belongs to god, so the victors can enter and praise.

better is one day

Psalm 84:10 (MSG)
One day spent in your house, this beautiful place of worship, beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches. I'd rather scrub floors in the house of my God than be honored as a guest in the palace of sin. All sunshine and sovereign is god, generous in gifts and glory. He doesn't scrimp with his traveling companions. It's smooth sailing all the way with god-of-the-Angel-Armies.

Psalm 27:6

Psalm 27:6 (MSG)
God holds me head and shoulders above all who try to pull me down. I'm headed for his place to offer anthems that will raise the roof! Already I'm singing God-songs; I'm making music to god.

Psalm 27:4

Psalm 27:4 (MSG)
I'm asking god for one thing, only one thing: To live with him in his house my whole life long. I'll contemplate his beauty; I'll study at his feet.

Psalm 26:4-5

Psalm 26:4-5 (MSG)
I don't hang out with tricksters, I don't pal around with thugs; I hate that pack of gangsters, I don't deal with double-dealers.

do Christians sin?

1 John 5:16-17 (MSG)
For instance, if we see a Christian believer sinning (clearly I'm not talking about those who make a practice of sin in a way that is "fatal," leading to eternal death), we ask for God's help and he gladly gives it, gives life to the sinner whose sin is not fatal. There is such a thing as a fatal sin, and I'm not urging you to pray about that. Everything we do wrong is sin, but not all sin is fatal.

the testimony

1 John 5:11-12 (MSG)
This is the testimony in essence: God gave us eternal life; the life is in his Son. So, whoever has the Son, has life; whoever rejects the Son, rejects life.

more to it than trusting

Philippians 1:29 (MSG)
There's far more to this life than trusting in Christ. There's also suffering for him. And the suffering is as much a gift as the trusting.

should we keep sinning?

Romans 6:1-2 (MSG)
So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I should hope not! If we've left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there? Or didn't you realize we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of grace—a new life in a new land!

Abraham believed God van raise the dead.

Romans 4:17 (MSG)
We call Abraham "father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!"

given over to sexual immorality

Romans 1:26-27 (MSG)
Worse followed. Refusing to know God, they soon didn't know how to be human either—women didn't know how to be women, men didn't know how to be men. Sexually confused, they abused and defiled one another, women with women, men with men—all lust, no love. And then they paid for it, oh, how they paid for it—emptied of God and love, godless and loveless wretches.

given over to sexual immorality

Romans 1:20-22 (MSG)
By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can't see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse.

Romans 1:26-27 (MSG)
Worse followed. Refusing to know God, they soon didn't know how to be human either—women didn't know how to be women, men didn't know how to be men. Sexually confused, they abused and defiled one another, women with women, men with men—all lust, no love. And then they paid for it, oh, how they paid for it—emptied of God and love, godless and loveless wretches.

prayer of blessing for family

2 Samuel 7:29 (MSG)
please, just one more thing: Bless my family; keep your eye on them always. You've already as much as said that you would, Master God! Oh, may your blessing be on my family permanently!"

no one like God

2 Samuel 7:20-22 (MSG)
What can I possibly say in the face of all this? You know me, Master God, just as I am.

what do I do to ne saved?

Acts 16:31 (MSG)
They said, "Put your entire trust in the Master Jesus. Then you'll live as you were meant to live-and everyone in your house included!"

cast of spirit of fortune telling

Acts 16:18 (MSG)
She did this for a number of days until Paul, finally fed up with her, turned and commanded the spirit that possessed her, "Out! In the name of Jesus Christ, get out of her!" And it was gone, just like that.

being given a trusting heart

Acts 16:14 (MSG)
One woman, Lydia, was from Thyatira and a dealer in expensive textiles, known to be a God-fearing woman. As she listened with intensity to what was being said, the Master gave her a trusting heart-and she believed!

you are gods

John 10:34 (MSG)
Jesus said, "I'm only quoting your inspired Scriptures, where God said, 'I tell you—you are gods.' If God called your ancestors 'gods'—and Scripture doesn't lie—why do you yell, 'Blasphemer! Blasphemer!' at the unique One the Father consecrated and sent into the world, just because I said, 'I am the Son of God'? If I don't do the things my Father does, well and good; don't believe me. But if I am doing them, put aside for a moment what you hear me say about myself and just take the evidence of the actions that are right before your eyes. Then perhaps things will come together for you, and you'll see that not only are we doing the same thing, we are the same—Father and Son. He is in me; I am in him."

Jesus returned in a body

Luke 24:38-39 (MSG)
He continued with them, "Don't be upset, and don't let all these doubting questions take over.

won't drink wine until kingdom

Luke 22:18 (MSG)
As for me, I'll not drink wine again until the kingdom of God arrives."

stay with it

Luke 21:19 (MSG)
Staying with it-that's what is required. Stay with it to the end. You won't be sorry; you'll be saved.

risk your life

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.

Mark 11:25

Mark 11:25 (MSG)
And when you assume the posture of prayer, remember that it's not all asking. If you have anything against someone, forgive-only then will your heavenly Father be inclined to also wipe your slate clean of sins."