All people
Praise God, everybody! Applaud God, all people! ~ Psalm 117:1 (MSG)
There is one God who is the Father of all people. Not only is God above all others, but he works by using all of us, and he lives in all of us. ~ Ephesians 4:6 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
Our connection with God is the one thing we all have in common.
PRAYER:
God, you are our all-in-all. There is no one -- no thing like you. You are our common connection. Remind me of that when I become super competative as I am prone to do. I forget that people who are different are merely a unique expression of your creativity -- yet you still live in us all. I am going to work for unity. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
