Matthew 6:34 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? We picked up a common colloquialism Continue Reading…
Matthew 25:35-36 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Continue Reading…
Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them.” “I LOVE GOD, I LOVE GOD, I LOVE GOD,” my three-year-old grandson loudly sang as I Continue Reading…
1 Peter 5:10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you. I recently finished reading the fifth book in a compelling fiction series by Gabrielle Meyer. The Continue Reading…
Matthew 5:7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy” Sometimes it feels like it doesn’t pay to show mercy. On our trip to Scotland our tour bus took us through some of the most breathtaking scenery we’d ever seen. Ohhs and ahhs filled the coach as we drank Continue Reading…
Job 42:5 “I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you” A friend of mine recently wrote about the importance of taking the “long view” when it comes to marriage. She said if couples want their marriage to last, it requires them Continue Reading…
Nehemiah 1:8-9 Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples, but if you return to me and keep my commandments… though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the Continue Reading…
Matthew 6:22-23 The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! We Continue Reading…
Psalm 139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Precious thoughts. I love how Psalm 139 describes God’s thoughts. David recognized not only the precious nature of God’s thoughts, but the vast sum of them. In Psalm 139 he marvels at how well Continue Reading…
Proverbs 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe. My perception of the Lord being a “strong tower” recently took on a deeper understanding. One of the many interesting sights we visited in Ireland took us back to the Continue Reading…