Conference yukon::christian_v7

	When all things were in quiet silence, and night was in
	the midst of her swift course, thine almighty Word leapt
	down from heaven, out of thy royal throne.

				-- Wisdom 18:14-15b, King James Version

Thomas, that's a toughie.  And I'm sure it came up recently, but can't 
locate it!  Trouble is there's so many verses, and each one has its own 
special time and place in our hearts and lives.  I could type in half the 
Bible, and still feel I'd omitted too many vital ones!  But I know the 
sense of your request - what speaks to our hearts?  And it's so  good to 
refresh ourselves with those verses...

I'll try a few... :

   "Yet to all who received Him, to all that believed in His Name,
    He gave the right to become children of God."
							John 1:12

   "I know that You can do all things; no plan of Yours can be thwarted."
							Job 42:2

   "He Who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until 
    the day of Christ"	
							Philippians 1:6

   "Your eyes shall see the King in his beauty"
							Isaiah 33:17
But the one which I guess has to win for me is :

   "When He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is."
							1 John 3:2


Yes, Thomas.  I think that last one is really what I meant all the time ;-)

						God bless
									Andrew

    More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpasing
    value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the
    loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain
    Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own
    derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the
    righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may
    know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His
    sufferings, being conformed to His death;
    
    				Phil 3:8-10
    
    There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ
    Jesus.  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you
    free from the law of sin and of death.
    
    				Rom 8:1-2

Titus 3:3  For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, 
deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, 
hateful, and hating one another. 

  4  But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man 
appeared, 
 

 5  Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his 
mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy 
Ghost; 

    Philippians 2:14 -> "Do all things without complaining and disputing"
    
    	BD�

Readings for weddings:

Tobit 8:5b-8  (King James Version, except verse 7, which is
	       a synthesis of the Revised Standard Version,
	       the New English Bible, and King James.)

    Blessed art thou, O God of our fathers, and blessed is
    thy holy and glorious name for ever; let the heavens
    bless thee, and all thy creatures.

    Thou madest Adam, and gavest him Eve his wife for an
    helper and stay: of them came mankind: thou hast said,
    It is not good that man should be alone; let us make
    unto him an aid like unto himself.

    And now, O Lord, I take this my beloved to wife, not
    out of lust, but with sincerity: therefore mercifully
    ordain that we may become aged together.

    And she said with him, Amen.

1 Corinthians 13 (Revised Standard Version)

    If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have
    not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  And
    if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries
    and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to
    remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
    If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body
    to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

    Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
    it is not arrogant or rude.  Love does not insist on its
    own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not
    rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.  Love bears
    all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures
    all things.

    Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as
    for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass
    away.  For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is
    imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will
    pass away.  When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I
    thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became
    a man, I gave up childish ways.  For now we see in a mirror
    dimly, but then face to face.  Now I know in part; then I
    shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.

    So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of
    these is love.

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And in case you wondered why Tobit 8:7 needed to avoid the KJV,
the marriage is between two distant cousins, and the KJV uses
the word "sister", which would raise too many eyebrows among
those at the wedding not familiar with biblical language.

    Like Andrew, I have multitudes of favorites....I think the
    topic which contains the survey that Pam's son (did I get the
    right person?) asked people to do for a class project also
    asked that question & got a number of responses.

    Leslie

That survey topic is 727.  Here is what I had in my response to that particular
survey question:


    7.  Do you have a favorite Bible verse?  What is it?

        I find the whole Bible to be filled with wonderful ideas and
        revelation that are very important for me.  But I do have some 
        passages which have been extra special to me, and also some whole
        incidents - for example the time when Jesus is at the home of
        Mary and Martha, and Mary sits listening to him, and when Martha
        wants Jesus to scold Mary, he gently tells Martha that what Mary
        is doing is very important.   And I love the time when two of 
        Jesus's followers are walking back to their home after Jesus was
        killed, and they are very sad, Jesus comes along and walks with 
        them and explains from the Bible (which at that time was only what 
        you know as the Old Testament) about how the Messiah had to suffer 
        and die before being raised again, but they don't recognize Him until
        He says the blessing over the bread and wine at dinner.

        I will have to go home & look up the exact references for the 
        passages passages that have especially spoken to me because I am
        not someone who remembers numbers very well.  But here's an
        inexact list:
        1) the Jeramiah passage about God knowing His plans for the people,
           for their good and not for evil, 
        2) the Habbakuk passage at the end of that book about trusting in God 
           no matter what the circumstances, 
        3) the Micah passage that says that what God requires of His is to
           love Him and walk humbly with Him
        4) many sections through Isaiah 40 - 53 which are about the Messiah
        5) Psalm 19, Psalm 33, Psalm 100
        5) John 3:16 - for God so loved the world that He gave His only
           begotten Son ...
        6) The Corinthian's passage about how love acts - kind, patient, etc.
        7) The prayer in Ephesians that the people would come to know the
           dimensions of God's infinate love so that they would be filled
           with the fulness of God.  
        8) Revelation passages about the end of death, and tears, and sorrow.
    
To that answer I would also add Isaiah 58 starting around verse 4 to the end
of the chapter.  In it God tells us the type of sacrifice He finds acceptable -
it is basically the sacrifice of loving one's neighbor.  It then moves onto
the blessings that come with keeping the Sabbath.

Leslie

      2 Corin 5:14-?                                
      If we are beside ourselves it is for the Lord or if we are
      of sound mind, it is for you for the love of Christ COMPELS
      us and we judge thus that if one died for all then all died.
      And he died for all that those who live should no longer 
      live for themselves but for He who died for them and rose
      again.
    
      Heb. 5 somewhere
      who in the days of His flesh when He had offered up prayers
      and supplications with vehement cries and tears to Him who 
      was able to save Him from death and was heard because of His
      godly fear.
    
      This one is a recent one...
      Isaiah 60:5
      Then you shall see and become RADIANT
      and your heart shall SWELL with JOY!
    
      (By beholding we do become changed!  I love that Isaiah text!)
    
      Ps. 23
      You annoint my head with oil.
      My cup runs over.
    
      Galatians 5:6-7
      For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness
      by faith for neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails
      anything, but faith which works by love.
    
      Gal. 3:1-3
      O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you before whose eyes 
      Jesus Christ has been EVIDENTLY set forth, CRUCIFIED among you?
      This only I want to learn from you, did you receive the Spirit
      by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?  Having
      begun in the Spirit are you now made perfect by the law?
    
      						Tony
      Matt 5
      Be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.