by Mathew Swora | Jan 30, 2019
“In Christ, you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit” (Eph. 2:22) “You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house” (I Peter 2:5) The vast majority of the world’s 65-70 million displaced people are...
by Mathew Swora | Jan 22, 2019
I Cor. 12: 12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to...
by Mathew Swora | Jan 15, 2019
Matthew 16: 13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” 14 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 “But what about...
by Mathew Swora | Jan 8, 2019
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi[a] from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”3 When King Herod heard...
by Mathew Swora | Jan 2, 2019
Luke 2:41 Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. 43 After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed...
