Josh Wehe

Renewing Mind

Romans 12:2 (NLT)
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Act on what you hear!!!

James 1:22 (MSG)
Don't fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don't act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.

James 1:27

James 1:27 (MSG)
Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.

God purifies you personally!

1 Thessalonians 5:23 (MSG)
May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together—spirit, soul, and body—and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ. The One who called you is completely dependable. If he said it, he'll do it!

On "moral relativity?"

Psalm 37:17 (MSG)
For the wicked are moral weaklings but the righteous are God-strong.

1 Corinthians 3:3

1 Corinthians 3:3 (MSG)
As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way?

2 Corinthians 5:18

2 Corinthians 5:18 (MSG)
All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other.

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.

Amos 5:24

Amos 5:24 (MSG)
Do you know what I want? I want justice-oceans of it. I want fairness-rivers of it. That's what I want. That's all I want.

Amos 5:22

Amos 5:22 (MSG)
I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals. I'm sick of your fund-raising schemes, your public relations and image making.

2 Corinthians 3:18

2 Corinthians 3:18 (MSG)
All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

1 Thessalonians 2:13 (MSG)
And now we look back on all this and thank God, an artesian well of thanks! When you got the Message of God we preached, you didn't pass it off as just one more human opinion, but you took it to heart as God's true word to you, which it is, God himself at work in you believers!

Galatians 5:22

Galatians 5:22 (MSG)
But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.

Galatians 5:5

Galatians 5:5 (MSG)
Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit.

Galatians 3:26

Galatians 3:26 (MSG)
By faith in Christ you are in direct relationship with God.

James 1:27

James 1:27 (MSG)
Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.

James 3:6

James 3:6 (MSG)
It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell.

Proverbs 13:20

Proverbs 13:20 (NLT)
Walk with the wise and become wise; associate with fools and get in trouble.

Proverbs 13:13

Proverbs 13:13 (MSG)
Ignore the Word and suffer; honor God's commands and grow rich.

Proverbs 13:4

Proverbs 13:4 (MSG)
Indolence wants it all and gets nothing; the energetic have something to show for their lives.

Romans 8:35

Romans 8:35 (MSG)
Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

Romans 8:15

Romans 8:15 (MSG)
This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?" God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what's coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we're certainly going to go through the good times with him!

Romans 8:5

Romans 8:5 (MSG)
Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. 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. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.

Psalm 31:5

Psalm 31:5 (MSG)
I've put my life in your hands. You won't drop me, you'll never let me down.

Psalm 27:14

Psalm 27:14 (MSG)
Stay with God! Take heart. Don't quit. I'll say it again: Stay with God.