One of the projects that is a part of my Lilly Foundation Grant is to put together a devotional for the 2008 Lenten season. I am wondering if you'd be willing to help... I am looking for favorite text suggestions from Paul's many writings in the New Testament that I might consider for the project. If you are willing, would you please suggest a verse or verses and why you like them by responding in the comments area of this posting. I am greatly appreciative. If I use your ideas I would like to be able to acknowledge from whom they came so if you are willing to be named in the devotional which will be shared at the Belfast UMC and with whomever else wants one, please let me know.
I leave you with one of my favorites, "So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life - and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you." (Romans 12:1-2, The Message)
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