Good Morning, Ministry Partner!

July 28, 2020

Be Encouraged by God's Word
I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.

— Romans 16:17-19, NRSV

Wisdom from Fellow Pilgrims

The kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of divine mystery where up is down, and down is up, where the crown is a crown of thorns, where the glory is bloody sweat; where the throne is a cross; where the higher you go the deeper down into these things you enter.

— Phineas Bresee

Pray Together with Us

To him who is able to keep you from falling, and to bring you faultless and joyful before his glorious presence—to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might, and authority, from all ages past, and now, and for ever and ever! Amen.

— From Jude

New Every Morning: a daily (M-F) encouragement resource for clergy that includes a scriptural start for the day, a thought from a brother/sister of the faith, and a prayer to enrich the service of the minister. It is an inner life component of the Soul Care ministry of the Church of the Nazarene's Global Clergy Development Office.
— Dr. Klaus Arnold, director