Matthew 7:3 New International Version (NIV) 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? When you place value in what you do not have, what you can do, and what others think of you; you maintain an...

Philippians 3:6-9 New International Version (NIV) 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law,faultless. 7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because...

Acts 8:1-3 New International Version (NIV) 8 And Saul approved of their killing him. The Church Persecuted and Scattered On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and...

Jeremiah 17:9 New International Version (NIV) 9 The heart is deceitful above all things     and beyond cure.     Who can understand it? We can deceive ourselves, and we can deceive others. Transformation required that we not deceive ourselves and improve our sight and...

Luke 18:14 New International Version (NIV) 14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” Before you can become yourself, you...

Matthew 6:6 New International Version (NIV) 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father,who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. When you meet God in your inner self, the encounter is...

Romans 8:13 New International Version (NIV) 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. When we accept everything we find within ourselves, then we can begin to know what needs...