You have made them for a little while lower than the angels;
you have crowned them with glory and honor

Whoever wants to befirst must be last of all and servant of all.  ~ Mark 9:35

If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. ~ Mark 8:34

Let us build a house
Where love can dwell
And all can safely live
A place where
Saints and children tell
How hearts learn to forgive

“Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.” Song of Solomon 2:8

“How lovely is they dwelling place.” Psalm 84:1

“Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil.” 1 Kings 3:9

“[B]e kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.” ~Ephesians 4:32

I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. John 6:35

“I pray that…Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love” (Ephesians 3:17)

“[Y]ou are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God” Ephesians 2:8

As followers of Jesus, our freedom comes from God who created us.

Then David took his shepherd’s staff, selected five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the pocket of his shepherd’s pack, and with his sling in his hand approached Goliath. – 1 Samuel 17:40

“Do you love me?” John 21:17

Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him. 1 Samuel 3:7

I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will remember your wonders of old. Psalm 77:11

[S]uddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Acts 2:2

[N]ow I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. John 17:13

Make yourself at home in my love. John 15:9

Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” John 10:11