1 Peter 2:25 GW
You were like lost sheep. Now you have come back to the shepherd and bishop of your lives.

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Ephesians 2:1-22 GW

You were once dead because of your failures and sins. [2] You followed the ways of this present world and its spiritual ruler. This ruler continues to work in people who refuse to obey God. [3] All of us once lived among these people, and followed the desires of our corrupt nature. We did what our corrupt desires and thoughts wanted us to do. So, because of our nature, we deserved God’s anger just like everyone else. [4] But God is rich in mercy because of his great love for us. [5] We were dead because of our failures, but he made us alive together with Christ. (It is God’s kindness that saved you.) [6] God has brought us back to life together with Christ Jesus and has given us a position in heaven with him. [7] He did this through Christ Jesus out of his generosity to us in order to show his extremely rich kindness in the world to come. [8] God saved you through faith as an act of kindness. You had nothing to do with it. Being saved is a gift from God. [9] It’s not the result of anything you’ve done, so no one can brag about it.

[10] God has made us what we are. He has created us in Christ Jesus to live lives filled with good works that he has prepared for us to do. [11] Remember that once you were not Jewish physically. Those who called themselves “the circumcised” because of what they had done to their bodies called you “the uncircumcised.” [12] Also, at that time you were without Christ. You were excluded from citizenship in Israel, and the pledges God made in his promise were foreign to you. You had no hope and were in the world without God. [13] But now through Christ Jesus you, who were once far away, have been brought near by the blood of Christ. [14] So he is our peace. In his body he has made Jewish and non-Jewish people one by breaking down the wall of hostility that kept them apart. [15] He brought an end to the commandments and demands found in Moses’ Teachings so that he could take Jewish and non-Jewish people and create one new humanity in himself. So he made peace. [16] He also brought them back to God in one body by his cross, on which he killed the hostility. [17] He came with the Good News of peace for you who were far away and for those who were near. [18] So Jewish and non-Jewish people can go to the Father in one Spirit. [19] That is why you are no longer foreigners and outsiders but citizens together with God’s people and members of God’s family. [20] You are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone. [21] In him all the parts of the building fit together and grow into a holy temple in the Lord. [22] Through him you, also, are being built in the Spirit together with others into a place where God lives.

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Romans 8:1-39 GW
So those who are believers in Christ Jesus can no longer be condemned. [2] The standards of the Spirit, who gives life through Christ Jesus, have set you free from the standards of sin and death. [3] It is impossible to do what God’s standards demand because of the weakness our human nature has. But God sent his Son to have a human nature as sinners have and to pay for sin. That way God condemned sin in our corrupt nature. [4] Therefore, we, who do not live by our corrupt nature but by our spiritual nature, are able to meet God’s standards in Moses’ Teachings. [5] Those who live by the corrupt nature have the corrupt nature’s attitude. But those who live by the spiritual nature have the spiritual nature’s attitude. [6] The corrupt nature’s attitude leads to death. But the spiritual nature’s attitude leads to life and peace. [7] This is so because the corrupt nature has a hostile attitude toward God. It refuses to place itself under the authority of God’s standards because it can’t. [8] Those who are under the control of the corrupt nature can’t please God. [9] But if God’s Spirit lives in you, you are under the control of your spiritual nature, not your corrupt nature. Whoever doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ doesn’t belong to him. [10] However, if Christ lives in you, your bodies are dead because of sin, but your spirits are alive because you have God’s approval. [11] Does the Spirit of the one who brought Jesus back to life live in you? Then the one who brought Christ back to life will also make your mortal bodies alive by his Spirit who lives in you. [12] So, brothers and sisters, we have no obligation to live the way our corrupt nature wants us to live. [13] If you live by your corrupt nature, you are going to die. But if you use your spiritual nature to put to death the evil activities of the body, you will live. [14] Certainly, all who are guided by God’s Spirit are God’s children. [15] You haven’t received the spirit of slaves that leads you into fear again. Instead, you have received the spirit of God’s adopted children by which we call out, “Abba! Father!” [16] The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. [17] If we are his children, we are also God’s heirs. If we share in Christ’s suffering in order to share his glory, we are heirs together with him. [18] I consider our present sufferings insignificant compared to the glory that will soon be revealed to us. [19] All creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal who his children are. [20] Creation was subjected to frustration but not by its own choice. The one who subjected it to frustration did so in the hope [21] that it would also be set free from slavery to decay in order to share the glorious freedom that the children of God will have. [22] We know that all creation has been groaning with the pains of childbirth up to the present time. [23] However, not only creation groans. We, who have the Spirit as the first of God’s gifts, also groan inwardly. We groan as we eagerly wait for our adoption, the freeing of our bodies from sin. [24] We were saved with this hope in mind. If we hope for something we already see, it’s not really hope. Who hopes for what can be seen? [25] But if we hope for what we don’t see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. [26] At the same time the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we don’t know how to pray for what we need. But the Spirit intercedes along with our groans that cannot be expressed in words. [27] The one who searches our hearts knows what the Spirit has in mind. The Spirit intercedes for God’s people the way God wants him to. [28] We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God-those whom he has called according to his plan. [29] This is true because he already knew his people and had already appointed them to have the same form as the image of his Son. Therefore, his Son is the firstborn among many children. [30] He also called those whom he had already appointed. He approved of those whom he had called, and he gave glory to those whom he had approved of. [31] What can we say about all of this? If God is for us, who can be against us? [32] God didn’t spare his own Son but handed him over to death for all of us. So he will also give us everything along with him. [33] Who will accuse those whom God has chosen? God has approved of them. [34] Who will condemn them? Christ has died, and more importantly, he was brought back to life. Christ has the highest position in heaven. Christ also intercedes for us. [35] What will separate us from the love Christ has for us? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or violent death separate us from his love? [36] As Scripture says: “We are being killed all day long because of you. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.” [37] The one who loves us gives us an overwhelming victory in all these difficulties. [38] I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us. We can’t be separated by death or life, by angels or rulers, by anything in the present or anything in the future, by forces [39] or powers in the world above or in the world below, or by anything else in creation.

Daniel 3:1-30

King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue 90 feet high and 9 feet wide. He set it up in a recessed area in the wall in the province of Babylon. [2] King Nebuchadnezzar sent messengers to assemble the satraps, governors, mayors, military advisers, treasurers, judges, officers, and all the other provincial officials to dedicate the statue he had set up. [3] Then the satraps, governors, mayors, military advisers, treasurers, judges, officers, and all the other provincial officials assembled to dedicate the statue King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. They stood in front of the statue. [4] The herald called out loudly, “People of every province, nation, and language! [5] When you hear the sound of rams’ horns, flutes, lyres, harps, and three-stringed harps playing at the same time with all other kinds of instruments, bow down and worship the gold statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. [6] Whoever doesn’t bow down and worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.” [7] As soon as they heard the sound of rams’ horns, flutes, lyres, harps, and three-stringed harps with all other kinds of instruments, all the people from every province, nation, and language bowed down and worshiped the gold statue King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. [8] After that happened, some astrologers came forward and brought charges against the Jews. [9] They addressed King Nebuchadnezzar, “Your Majesty, may you live forever! [10] Your Majesty, you gave an order that everyone who hears the sound of rams’ horns, flutes, lyres, harps, and three-stringed harps playing at the same time with all other kinds of instruments should bow down and worship the gold statue. [11] Your order said that whoever doesn’t bow down and worship will be thrown into a blazing furnace. [12] There are certain Jews whom you appointed to govern the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men didn’t obey your order, Your Majesty. They don’t honor your gods or worship the statue that you set up.” [13] Then, in a fit of rage and anger, Nebuchadnezzar summoned Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Immediately, they were brought to the king. [14] Nebuchadnezzar asked them, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, is it true that you don’t honor my gods or worship the gold statue that I set up? [15] When you hear the sound of the rams’ horns, flutes, lyres, harps, and three-stringed harps playing at the same time with all other kinds of instruments, will you bow down and worship the gold statue I made? If you don’t worship it, you will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace. What god can save you from my power then?” [16] Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered King Nebuchadnezzar, “We don’t need to answer your last question. [17] If our God, whom we honor, can save us from a blazing furnace and from your power, he will, Your Majesty. [18] But if he doesn’t, you should know, Your Majesty, we’ll never honor your gods or worship the gold statue that you set up.” [19] Nebuchadnezzar was so filled with anger toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that his face turned red. He ordered that the furnace should be heated seven times hotter than normal. [20] He told some soldiers from his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego so that they could be thrown into the blazing furnace. [21] Then the three men were thrown into the blazing furnace. They were wearing their clothes, hats, and other clothing. [22] The king’s order was so urgent and the furnace was so extremely hot that the men who carried Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were killed by the flames from the fire. [23] So these three men-Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego-fell into the blazing furnace. They were still tied up. [24] Then Nebuchadnezzar was startled. He sprang to his feet. He asked his advisers, “Didn’t we throw three men into the fire?” “That’s true, Your Majesty,” they answered. [25] The king replied, “But look, I see four men. They’re untied, walking in the middle of the fire, and unharmed. The fourth one looks like a son of the gods.” [26] Then Nebuchadnezzar went to the door of the blazing furnace and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego-servants of the Most High God-come out here.” Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fire. [27] The king’s satraps, governors, mayors, and advisers gathered around the three men. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies. The hair on their heads wasn’t singed, their clothes weren’t burned, and they didn’t smell of smoke. [28] Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He sent his angel and saved his servants, who trusted him. They disobeyed the king and risked their lives so that they would not have to honor or worship any god except their own God. [29] So I order that people from every province, nation, or language who say anything slanderous about the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be torn limb from limb. Their houses will be turned into piles of rubble. No other god can rescue like this.” [30] Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to higher positions in the province of Babylon.

Mark 5:21-43

Jesus Heals a Woman and Jairus’s Daughter

[21] And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. [22] Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet [23] and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.” [24] And he went with him.

And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. [25] And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, [26] and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. [27] She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. [28] For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” [29] And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. [30] And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” [31] And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’” [32] And he looked around to see who had done it. [33] But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. [34] And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

[35] While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” [36] But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” [37] And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. [38] They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. [39] And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” [40] And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was. [41] Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.” [42] And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement. [43] And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.