welcome to multiple strands

a place to converse, virtually, on a variety of topics, bringing together multiple strands to encourage, question, challenge, ponder, and edify. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart. (Eccl. 4.12)

Thursday, April 23, 2015

encourage stewardship of giving in all things.


Paul encourages the Corinthians to excel is giving in all areas:
faith, speech, knowledge, earnestness, and love, as well as financial resources.

2 Cor. 8.1f
We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace. But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also. 

Sunday, April 19, 2015

O Lord, make me know my end
and what is the measure of my days;
let me know how fleeting I am!

Ps. 39.4