The disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees made a practice of fasting. Some people confronted Jesus: “Why do the followers...

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and...

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Hebrews 13: 8 NRSV When we are overwhelmed with changes and...

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future. Proverbs 19: 20 NRSV Attitudes vary toward...

You who sit down in the High God’s presence, spend the night in Shaddai’s shadow, Say this: “God, you’re my refuge. I trust in you and...

7 I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. 8 I keep the Lord always before me; because he is at my...

Arrogant know-it-alls stir up discord, but wise men and women listen to each other’s counsel. Proverbs 13: 10 The Message Unique in the...

Don’t lose your grip on Love and Loyalty. Tie them around your neck; carve their initials on your heart. Earn a reputation for living...

18Then his brothers also wept, fell down before him, and said, ‘We are here as your slaves.’ 19But Joseph said to them, ‘Do not be...

The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised. 2Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his...

Now the wife of a member of the company of prophets cried to Elisha, ‘Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant...

‘Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.’ Matthew 5:4 ‘The Lord is near to the broken-hearted, and saves the crushed in...

It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had...

How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! 6And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of...

Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart to revere your name. Psalm 86: 11 NRSV Teachers...

12 Rise up, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; do not forget the oppressed. 13 Why do the wicked renounce God, and say in their hearts,...

In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field...

Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. Micah 7: 8 The...

So here’s what I think: The best thing you can do right now is to finish what you started last year and not let those good intentions...

“For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1: 7 English Standard Version Today is Friday...