Love and truth form a good leader; sound leadership is founded on loving integrity. Proverbs 20: 28 The Message Good leadership...

If you reason with an arrogant cynic, you’ll get slapped in the face; confront bad behavior and get a kick in the shins. So don’t waste...

12 Whoever belittles another lacks sense, but an intelligent person remains silent. 13 A gossip goes about telling secrets, but one who...

Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath. Do not fret—it leads only to evil. Psalm 37:8 NRSV Recently, I was listening to a local...

Oh, let me sing to God all my life long, sing hymns to my God as long as I live! Oh, let my song please him; I’m so pleased to be singing...

Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, 21to him be glory...

Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging...

15Then God said to Noah, 16‘Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17Bring out with you every...

‘Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear....

Or, to put it another way, you are God’s house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting...

You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you. Matthew 5:4 ...

With many stories like these, he presented his message to them, fitting the stories to their experience and maturity. He was never...

The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray especially for rulers and their...

God’s a safe-house for the battered, a sanctuary during bad times. The moment you arrive, you relax; you’re never sorry you knocked....

20-21 But there’s far more to life for us. We’re citizens of high heaven! We’re waiting the arrival of the Savior, the Master, Jesus...

Do everything readily and cheerfully—no bickering, no second-guessing allowed! Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air...

Why is everyone hungry for more? “More, more,” they say. “More, more.” I have God’s more-than-enough, More joy in one ordinary day Then...

Then God said, “I’ve given you every sort of seed-bearing plant on Earth And every kind of fruit-bearing tree, given them to you for...

"This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." Psalm 118: 24 This simple sentence from Psalm 118 is often...

When I was upset and beside myself, you calmed me down and cheered me up. Psalm 94: 19 The Message Life is full of upsetting events....