Rick Butterfield

Matthew 18:15-20

Matthew 18:15-20 (NIV)
"If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.

Philippians 3:12-16

Philippians 3:12-16 (AMP)
Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own.

1 Corinthians 14:26

1 Corinthians 14:26 (MSG)
So here's what I want you to do. When you gather for worship, each one of you be prepared with something that will be useful for all: Sing a hymn, teach a lesson, tell a story, lead a prayer, provide an insight. If prayers are offered in tongues, two or three's the limit, and then only if someone is present who can interpret what you're saying. Otherwise, keep it between God and yourself. And no more than two or three speakers at a meeting, with the rest of you listening and taking it to heart. Take your turn, no one person taking over. Then each speaker gets a chance to say something special from God, and you all learn from each other. If you choose to speak, you're also responsible for how and when you speak. When we worship the right way, God doesn't stir us up into confusion; he brings us into harmony. This goes for all the churches—no exceptions.

1 Corinthians 13:10

1 Corinthians 13:10 (MSG)
But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

Philippians 4:13

Philippians 4:13 (MSG)
Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.

2 Corinthians 5:17

2 Corinthians 5:17 (AMP)
Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!

Ephesians 1:23

Ephesians 1:23 (MSG)
The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ's body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.

Psalm 100:3

Psalm 100:3 (MSG)
Know this: god is God, and God, god. He made us; we didn't make him. We're his people, his well-tended sheep.

2 Corinthians 5:21

2 Corinthians 5:21 (MSG)
How? you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.

James 4:5

James 4:5 (MSG)
And do you suppose God doesn't care? The proverb has it that "he's a fiercely jealous lover."

James 4:6

James 4:6 (MSG)
And what he gives in love is far better than anything else you'll find. It's common knowledge that "God goes against the willful proud; God gives grace to the willing humble."

John 3:30

John 3:30 (AMP)
He must increase, but I must decrease. [He must grow more prominent; I must grow less so.]

Acts 18:9

Acts 18:9 (NIV)
One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: "Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent.

Proverbs 20:4

Proverbs 20:4 (NIV)
Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.

2 Corinthians 5:17

2 Corinthians 5:17 (AMP)
Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!

Malachi 3:10

Malachi 3:10 (NLT)
Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test!

Matthew 12:45

Matthew 12:45 (MSG)
It then runs out and rounds up seven other spirits more evil than itself and they all move in, whooping it up. That person ends up far worse off than if he'd never gotten cleaned up in the first place. "That's what this generation is like: You may think you have cleaned out the junk from your lives and gotten ready for God, but you weren't hospitable to my kingdom message, and now all the devils are moving back in."

1 Thessalonians 3:7

1 Thessalonians 3:7 (NIV)
Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged about you because of your faith.

Genesis 29:20

Genesis 29:20 (NLT)
So Jacob worked seven years to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.

Matthew 11:15

Matthew 11:15 (MSG)
"Are you listening to me? Really listening?

1 Corinthians 13:1

1 Corinthians 13:1 (MSG)
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

Romans 12:9

Romans 12:9 (NLT)
Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.

Romans 12:10

Romans 12:10 (NLT)
Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.

Job 5:9

Job 5:9 (MSG)
After all, he's famous for great and unexpected acts; there's no end to his surprises.

1 John 1:7

1 John 1:7 (MSG)
But if we walk in the light, God himself being the light, we also experience a shared life with one another, as the sacrificed blood of Jesus, God's Son, purges all our sin.