Notes A Journey with Purpose 1. Romans 12:2 (NLT). 2. 2 Timothy 2:7 (NIV). Day 1: It All Starts with God 1. Job 12:10 (TEV). 2. Romans 8:6 (Msg). 3. Matthew 16:25 (Msg). 4. Hugh S. Moorhead, comp., The Meaning of Life According to Our Century’s Greatest Writers and Thinkers (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1988). 5. 1 Corinthians 2:7 (Msg). 6. Ephesians 1:11 (Msg). 7. David Friend, ed., The Meaning of Life (Boston: Little, Brown, 1991), 194. Day 2: You Are Not an Accident 1. Psalm 138:8a (NIV). 2. Psalm 139:15 (Msg). 3. Psalm 139:16 (LB). 4. Acts 17:26 (NIV). 5. Ephesians 1:4a (Msg). 6. James 1:18 (NCV). 7. Michael Denton, Nature’s Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe (New York: Free Press, 1998), 389. 8. Isaiah 45:18 (GWT). 9. 1 John 4:8 10. Isaiah 46:3–4 (NCV). 11. Russell Kelfer. Used by permission. Day 3: What Drives Your Life? 1. Genesis 4:12 (NIV). 2. Psalm 32:1 (LB). 3. Job 5:2 (TEV). 4. 1 John 4:18 (Msg). 5. Matthew 6:24 (NLT). 6. Isaiah 49:4 (NIV). 7. Job 7:6 (LB). 8. Job 7:16 (TEV).
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Jeremiah 29:11 (NCV). Ephesians 3:20 (LB). Proverbs 13:7 (Msg). Isaiah 26:3 (TEV). Ephesians 5:17 (Msg). Philippians 3:13 (NLT). Philippians 3:15 (Msg). Romans 14:10b, 12 (NLT). 17. John 14:6 (NIV). Day 4: Made to Last Forever 1. Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NLT). 2. 2 Corinthians 5:1 (TEV). 3. Philippians 3:7 (NLT). 4. 1 Corinthians 2:9 (LB). 5. Matthew 25:34 (NIV). 6. C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle (New York: Collier Books, 1970), 184. 7. Psalm 33:11 (TEV). 8. Ecclesiastes 7:2 (CEV). 9. Hebrews 13:14 (LB). 10. 2 Corinthians 5:6 (LB). Day 5: Seeing Life from God’s View 1. Romans 12:2 (TEV). 2. 2 Chronicles 32:31 (NLT). 3. 1 Corinthians 10:13 (TEV). 4. James 1:12 (GWT). 5. Psalm 24:1 (TEV). 6. Genesis 1:28 (TEV). 7. 1 Corinthians 4:7b (NLT). 8. 1 Corinthians 4:2 (NCV). 9. Matthew 25:14–29. 10. Matthew 25:21 (NIV). 11. Luke 16:11 (NLT). 12. Luke 12:48b (NIV). Day 6: Life Is a Temporary Assignment 1. Job 8:9 (NLT). 2. Psalm 39:4 (LB). 3. Psalm 119:19 (NLT). 4. 1 Peter 1:17 (GWT). 5. Philippians. 3:19–20 (NLT).
6. James 4:4 (Msg). 7. 2 Corinthians 5:20 (NLT). 8. 1 Peter 2:11 (Msg). 9. 1 Corinthians 7:31 (NLT). 10. 2 Corinthians 4:18b (Msg). 11. John 16:33; 16:20; 15:18–19. 12. 2 Corinthians 4:18 (NIV). 13. 1 Peter 2:11 (GWT). 14. Hebrews 11:13, 16 (NCV). Day 7: The Reason for Everything 1. Psalm 19:1 (NIV). 2. Genesis 3:8; Exodus 33:18–23; 40:33–38; 1 Kings 7:51; 8:10–13; John 1:14; Ephesians 2:21–22; 2 Corinthians 4:6–7. 3. Exodus 24:17; 40:34; Psalm 29:1; Isaiah 6:3–4; 60:1; Luke 2:9. 4. Revelation 21:23 (NIV). 5. Hebrews 1:3 (NIV); also 2 Corinthians 4:6b (LB). 6. John 1:14 (GWT). 7. 1 Chronicles 16:24; Psalm 29:1; 66:2; 96:7; 2 Corinthians 3:18. 8. Revelation 4:11a (NLT). 9. Romans 3:23 (NIV). 10. Isaiah 43:7 (TEV). 11. John 17:4 (NLT). 12. Romans 6:13b (NLT). 13. 1 John 3:14 (CEV). 14. Romans 15:7 (NLT). 15. John 13:34–35 (NIV). 16. 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NLT). 17. Philippians 1:11 (NLT); see also John 15:8 (GWT). 18. 1 Peter 4:10–11 (NLT); see also 2 Corinthians 8:19b (NCV). 19. 2 Corinthians 4:15 (NLT). 20. John 12:27–28 (NASB).
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