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…
2 Chronicles 20:12 “For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.” Have you experienced situations that throw you into a Lord I don’t know what to do but my eyes are on Continue Reading…
Acts 3:2 “Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts.” Something beautiful happened at the Gate Beautiful in Jerusalem. A crippled man—a man who had never walked in his Continue Reading…
2 Timothy 1:7 “for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” [ESV] Sometimes, even in a season of relative calm, fear sneaks into the edges of my mind like a Colombian drug cartel at the southern border. What if something bad is about to Continue Reading…
Nehemiah 13:2 “(Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing).” [NIV] It has to be the most un-parenthesis worthy statement in the Bible. Maybe that’s why other versions use a simple period or dash. But my NIV version puts a parenthetical around the fact that God turned a curse Continue Reading…
Psalm 78: 42 “They did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe.” The miraculous signs making possible their exodus from Egypt. The parting of the Red Sea. Water gushing from rocks and manna falling from the sky. The defeat of enemy after enemy. Continue Reading…