Week 12: Friday Discipleship

  • Psalm 103:8-13

    The Lord is merciful and gracious,
        slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
    He will not always chide,
        nor will he keep his anger forever.
    He does not deal with us according to our sins,
        nor repay us according to our iniquities.
    For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
        so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
    as far as the east is from the west,
        so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
    As a father shows compassion to his children,
        so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

  • Romans 8:31-39

    What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,

    “For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
        we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

    No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Q-How does God demonstrate His love for us through Jesus?

    A-God demonstrates His love by sending Jesus to die for us while we were still sinners. Through Jesus' sacrifice, we are justified, saved from God’s wrath, and reconciled to Him, securing our peace with God and giving us reason to rejoice.

  • 1 John 4:9

    In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

  • *Establish a rhythm of cultivating devotion to Jesus.

    *Learn and internalize the Bible memory verse.

    *Commit the catechism to memory.