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March 19, 2025

Verse

Colossians 1:9-12

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.

Quote

Vincent Peale,

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

Joke

I used to be addicted to soap, but I'm clean now.

March 18, 2025

Verse

2 Timothy 3:10-13

You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Quote

Frederick Wilcox,

"Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."

Joke

I have a joke about chemistry, but I don't think it will get a reaction.

March 17, 2025

Verse

Matthew 24:35

"Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away."

Quote

William James,

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

Joke

What do you call it when a snowman throws a tantrum?

A meltdown.

March 14, 2025

Verse

Matthew 6:24

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Quote

Elon Musk,

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

Joke

Why can't a nose be 12 inches long?

Because then it would be a foot.

March 13, 2025

Verse

Matthew 6:25-27

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

Quote

Jim Rohn,

"To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?"

Joke


What do you call someone with no body and no nose?

Nobody knows.

March 12, 2025

Verse

Matthew 6:14,15

For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

Quote

Jim Rohn,

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

Joke

Did you hear the rumor about butter?

Well, I'm not going to spread it!

March 11, 2025

Verse

Matthew 6:1-4

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Quote

Brian Tracy, "You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."

Joke

How do you get a squirrel to like you?

Act like a nut.

March 10, 2025

Verse

Matthew 3:11,12
“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with c the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Quote

Martin Luther King, Jr.,

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Joke

A skeleton walks into a bar and says,
'Hey, bartender. I'll have one beer and a mop.'

March 7, 2025

Verse

Matthew 3:11,12

“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with c the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Quote

James Clear,

"Keep showing up, you'll almost certainly break through - but probably not in the way you expected or intended. You need enough persistence to keep working and enough flexibility to enjoy success when it comes in a different form than you imagined."

Joke

I only know 25 letters of the alphabet.

I don't know y.

March 6, 2025

Verse

Ecclesiastes 12:13,14

Now all has been heard;
   here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
   for this is the duty of all mankind.
For God will bring every deed into judgment,
   including every hidden thing,
whether it is good or evil.

Quote

William James, "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

Joke

Dear Math, grow up and solve your own problems."

March 5, 2025

Verse

Genesis 4:6,7

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

Quote

Albert Einstein,

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

Joke

What’s a dog’s favorite super hero?

Labra-Thor.

March 4, 2025

Verse

Luke 23:40-43

But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”

Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Quote

George Bernard Shaw,

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

Joke

Where do fruits go on vacation?

Pear-is!

March 3, 2025

Verse

Galatians 5:22,23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Quote

Jay Leno,

"The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin."

Joke

My friend Jack claims he can communicate with vegetables.

Jack and the beans talk!

February 28, 2025

Verse

Galatians 3:26-29

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Quote

Theodore Roosevelt,

"Courage does not mean having the strength to go on. Courage means going on when you don't have the strength."

Joke

What do you call cheese that isn't yours?

Nacho cheese.

February 27, 2025

Verse

John 6:26,27

Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”

Quote

James Clear,

"Your biological age is the number of days you lived. Your psychological age is the number of thoughts you've entertained. Your sociological age is the number of contributions you've made."

Joke

Why did the god of thunder need to stretch his legs?

He was a little Thor.

February 26, 2025

Verse

John 3:16-18

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

Quote

Ernest Hemingway,
"Be humble after, but not during the action."

Joke

Went to the doctor with a suspicious-looking mole.

He said they all look that way and I should have left him in the garden.

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