http://dailybeacon.today.com Just another Today.com weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:58:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en John 15:18-"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.  If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own.  As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.  That is why the ... http://dailybeacon.today.com/2009/11/23/do-you-like-being-hated/ (8) John15:14-17You are my friends if you do what I command.  I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.  You did not choose ... http://dailybeacon.today.com/2009/11/20/jesus-god-chooses-to-be-my-firend/ John 15:11-13 I have told you this so that my joy may be complete.  My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.     Jesus is telling me that if I love ... http://dailybeacon.today.com/2009/11/19/66/ John 15: 9, 10 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.  Now remain in my love.  If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love. (NIV)  At first reading, I shrink from ... http://dailybeacon.today.com/2009/11/18/will-i-answer-jesus-call/ John 15:7, 8 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given to you.  This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. (NIV)  Wouldn’t it be great if the only requirement ... http://dailybeacon.today.com/2009/11/17/64/  John 15:1-7 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.  He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. (NIV)    There can be little confusion by what Jesus ... http://dailybeacon.today.com/2009/11/13/want-a-surefire-way-to-improve-your-life-2/  John 15:5, 6 “I am the vine and you are the branches.  If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.  If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away ... http://dailybeacon.today.com/2009/11/13/a-key-to-living-well/ John 15:3, 4 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.  Remain in me, and I will remain in you.  No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine.  Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. (NIV)     One ... http://dailybeacon.today.com/2009/11/05/62/  John 15:1-7 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.  He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. (NIV)     There can be little confusion by what Jesus ... http://dailybeacon.today.com/2009/11/04/want-a-surefire-way-to-improve-your-life/    Perhaps no decision to date more clearly defines an award for words over substance than the remarkable decision to award President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.  The question that begs to be asked is "For What?"  He was sworn in for President two months before the selection process began, so ... http://dailybeacon.today.com/2009/10/09/nobel-peace-prize-for-the-one/