Psalm 133:1-3 How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along! It’s like costly anointing oil flowing down head and beard. Flowing down Aaron’s beard, flowing down the collar of his priestly robes. It’s like the dew on Mount Hermon flowing down the slopes of Zion. Yes, that’s where Continue Reading…
Philippians 3:13-14 “…. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” The other day Chip and I were talking with a friend who was Continue Reading…
2 Peter 1:4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. Christians are a supernatural people. And by supernatural, Continue Reading…
Romans 13:8-10 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. … Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law. It seems like we hear it all the time. Someone in authority on Continue Reading…
Romans 12:19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” Let’s admit it. Resisting the urge to pay someone back for hurts they have caused, stretches most of us. It’s hard, especially in 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…
Jeremiah 31:3 I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. My husband and I recently had the opportunity to see the theatre production of Beautiful, a musical depicting the life of singer-songwriter Carole King. She had just released her Grammy- winning album, Tapestry, in the early Continue Reading…
Deuteronomy 15:1-2 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the Lord’s time for canceling debts Continue Reading…
Luke 19:8 And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.” Imagine Zacchaeus. As a Jewish tax collector for the Romans, he lived on the lowest rung of Israel’s social Continue Reading…
Luke 18:8 “…Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” I heard a radio host ask a question the other day. “What is one thing you believe with all your heart?” He wanted to know what principles remain nonnegotiable, no matter what others say. Many thoughts Continue Reading…