January 2-8

Thursday Read the question and then the day’s scripture.  After considering how the scripture helps answer the question, click here to post.	What does it mean to love the things of this world?  What are those things?  What does it look like to love them?	1 John 2:15-17 Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.
Friday Read the question and then the day’s scripture.  After considering how the scripture helps answer the question, click here to post.	What does it mean to “set our minds on Him”?  How do we seek after godly things?	Psalm 1: 1-3 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.  That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.
Saturday Read the question and then the day’s scripture.  After considering how the scripture helps answer the question, click here to post.	What are things of the spirit?  How do you sow them?	Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Sunday Read the question and then the day’s scripture.  After considering how the scripture helps answer the question, click here to post.	What are you sowing?  What are you reaping?  Give specific examples.	Galatians 6: 7-8 Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.
Monday Read the question and then the day’s scripture.  After considering how the scripture helps answer the question, click here to post.	Lots of teens feel like they have to “sow their wild oats” while they’re young but that they’ll sow good things when they’re older.  Will that work?  Why or why not?	Ephesians 4:20-24 That, however, is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Tuesday Read the question and then the day’s scripture.  After considering how the scripture helps answer the question, click here to post.	Is it harder to sow good seeds than ungodly ones?  Why or why not?	1 John 5:19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
Wednesday Read the question and then the day’s scripture.  After considering how the scripture helps answer the question, click here to post.	You’ve spent the past week sowing Godly seeds by spending time in his word.  What have you reaped so far?  Will you keep sowing them?	Romans 12:1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.