Luke 4:20-30

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, and he began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."
All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. "Isn't this Joseph's son?" they asked. Jesus said to them, "Surely you will quote this proverb to me: 'Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.'"
"I tell you the truth," he continued, "no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed--only Naaman the Syrian."
All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him down the cliff. But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way. -- Luke 4:20-30

Mark 16: 4-7

"... when they [Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome], looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
"'Don't be alarmed,' he said. 'You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter, "He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you."'"
-- Mark 16: 4-7

One Father - Matthew 23:9

"Then Jesus said ... 'And do not call anyone on earth "father", for you have one Father, and He is in heaven.'" -- Matthew 23:9

Grace Received, Freely Give Grace - Matthew 10:8b

"Freely you have received, freely give." - Matthew 10:8b


"Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." - Romans 3:24

"... through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God."
- Romans 5:2

"[Therefore], let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Galations 6:9

Matthew 12:18-21

"... to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: 'Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations. He will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory. In his name the nations will put their hope.'" - Matthew 12:18-21

Matthew 7:13-14

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life*, and only a few find it."
- Matthew 7:13-14

* "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'" - John 14:6

Matthew 6:34

"... do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
- Matthew 6:34

Matthew 4:23-25

"Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them.
Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him."
- Matthew 4:23-25

Malachi 4:1-3

The Day of the LORD

"Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them. But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things," says the LORD Almighty."
- Malachi 4:1-3

Malachi 3:10

The Whole Tithe

"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it."
- Malachi 3:10

Zechariah 10:1

God Almighty Controls the Weather!

"Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who makes the storm clouds. He gives showers of rain to men, and plants of the field to everyone."
- Zechariah 10:1

Habakkuk 1:5

God Speaks Through His Activity

"Look among the nations and watch. Be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you." - Habakkuk 1:5