Sean Grant

integrity is commitment not to deceive

Psalm 51:10 (NIV)
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

character by sacrifice

Romans 12:1-2 (NIV)
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

character by choices

Ephesians 4:22-24 (NIV)
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

Hebrews 1:3

Hebrews 1:3 (NIV)
The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.

kingdom of God - believing is seeing

1 Corinthians 4:20 (NIV)
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.

Fellowship

Acts 2:42-47 (NIV)
They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Powerful Prayer

Acts 16:25-26 (NIV)
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

Collective Prayer

1 Corinthians 2:8-10 (NIV)
None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Collective Prayer

Acts 4:23-24 (NIV)
On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Acts 4:29-31 (NIV)
Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.

Government

Romans 13:1 (NIV)
Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.

widows and orphans

Psalm 68:5-6 (NIV)
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

prophecy: encouraging and uplifting

Acts 15:30-33 (NIV)
So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the church together and delivered the letter.

prayer - before we ask others

James 5:13-16 (NIV)
Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise.

leaders - tithing

1 Corinthians 9:13-14 (NIV)
Don't you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?

tithing & giving

1 Timothy 6:6-10 (NIV)
But godliness with contentment is great gain.

leaders must guard their sheep

Acts 20:28-29 (NIV)
Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.

leadership & truth - mike

Hebrews 13:15-17 (NIV)
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.

prayer 12/02/12

Matthew 5:6 (NIV)
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Luke 18:1-8

Luke 18:1-8 (NIV)
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

shared with us by Richard & Bernice on 14/12/11

Psalm 127:5 (NIV)
Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.

righteousness

Job 29:14 (NIV)
I put on righteousness as my clothing; justice was my robe and my turban.

righteousness

Isaiah 61:10 (NIV)
I delight greatly in the lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

James 1:27

James 1:27 (NKJV)
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Ephesians 3:14-19

Ephesians 3:14-19 (NIVUK)
For this reason I kneel before the Father,

Isaiah 61:2

Isaiah 61:2 (NIVUK)
to proclaim the year of the lord's favour and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,