Nov 3 2025 … Built By Christ … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics, from the group Hillsong Worship,  singing Cornerstone … declaring that Christians build their (our) lives on faith in Christ as our cornerstone.

Goldsworthy's Grand Rapids Arch ... 

Highlight Passage: … Ephesians 2:20-21 … [NLT] … 

20 Together, we are His house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus Himself. 21 We are carefully joined together in Him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. 

… Paul teaches Gentiles that ALL who build their lives on Christ as their Cornerstone of faith will be part of God’s Temple.  

Highlight Passage in Context:  Ephesians 2:12-22 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul shows Gentles that they can be part of Christ building HIs Temple with their faith in Christ as their Chief Cornerstone.

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 118:22-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Psalmist, likely King David, sings of God building a future temple with The Messiah as the chief cornerstone. 

Reference Passage: …Isaiah 28:16  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru the Prophet Isaiah, promises to build His Temple with The Messiah as His cornerstone and that all who build their lives on faith in this Cornerstone (i.e., The Messiah) will never be shaken.

Reference Passage: … Matthew 21:42-44 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Jesus challenges the religious leaders, by teaching from Psalms 118, that any who did not believe HIM to be God’s chief cornerstone would be crushed in the building of God’s Temple.

Reference Passage: … Acts 4:11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Peter declares to the religious leaders who were about to arrest Peter and John in the Temple, by quoting from Psalm 118 that they were building their lives on Jesus as the Christ and their chief cornerstone of faith.

Reference Passage: …1Peter 2:4-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Peter preaches truth - from God’s word in Isaiah 28 and Psalms 118 - that all must have faith in Christ as the “cornerstone” of their (our) flives.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author,  Xochitl Dixon  …  USE THS LNK  -       …  showed the 18 foot Grand Rapids Arch (see photo),  conceived and built by Andy Goldsworthy without using any mortar, building the arch with only 36 Scottish sandstone blocks, perfectly structured from the top stone to build the Arch.  And Goldsworthy’s arch reminded the ODB author of how God build’s His Temple (i.e.,Church) with faith in Christ as His cornerstone.

And as my readers today take in the linked song and the Scriptures above, I pray we all are building out lives with Christ as our “Cornerstone.”  Using God’s word is my building plan.   What’s yours?

My Thanksgiving:… Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for giving me Your word to build my life upon Christ as my cornerstone.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... for showing us how to build our lives upon You as our chief cornerstone.  … Amen

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