Posts by George Bewley

Virtual Meeting Sundays at 11 am On Sunday mornings at 11:00 am we meet over Zoom. All 7th-12th graders are welcomed to join. For connection information contact simon@crclife.org. 4 Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you too have a Master in heaven. 2 Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving. 3 At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the message, to…

Virtual Meeting Sundays at 11 am On Sunday mornings at 11:00 am we meet over Zoom. All 7th-12th graders are welcomed to join. For connection information contact simon@crclife.org. 16 Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God…

Virtual Meeting Sundays at 11 am On Sunday mornings at 11:00 am we meet over Zoom. All 7th-12th graders are welcomed to join. For connection information contact simon@crclife.org. 3 So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in…

Virtual Meeting Sundays at 11 am On Sunday mornings at 11:00 am we meet over Zoom. All 7th-12th graders are welcomed to join. For connection information contact simon@crclife.org. 16 Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of what was to come; the substance is the Messiah. 18 Let no one disqualify you, u insisting on ascetic practices and…

Virtual Meeting Sundays at 11 am On Sunday mornings at 11:00 am we meet over Zoom. All 7th-12th graders are welcomed to join. For connection information contact simon@crclife.org. 8 Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based on Christ. 9 For the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily in Christ, 10 and you have been filled by Him, who is the head…

Being a follower of Christ isn’t easy. As the common saying goes, “If it was easy, everyone would do it.” If you have been a fully devoted follower of Christ for any amount of time, you have come across challenging times. If each day you are dying to yourself and your own desires, you have had to sacrifice in order to follow Jesus. Maybe it’s a hobby, or a friendship, or even a childhood dream. God calls us to lay…

24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for His body, that is, the church. 25 I have become its servant, according to God’s administration that was given to me for you, to make God’s message fully known, 26 the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to His saints. 27 God wanted to make known among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ…

16 For everything was created by Him,in heaven and on earth,the visible and the invisible,whether thrones or dominionsor rulers or authoritiesall things have been created through Him and for Him.17 He is before all things,and by Him all things hold together.18 He is also the head of the body, the church;He is the beginning,the firstborn from the dead,so that He might come to havefirst place in everything.19 For God was pleased to haveall His fullness dwell in Him,20 and through Him to reconcileeverything to Himselfby…

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 10 so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience,…