“Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience . . . without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure. . . . If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone ...
But perhaps no country in the world has been so prolific of human gods as India; nowhere has the divine grace been poured out in a more liberal measure on all classes of society from kings down to milkmen. Thus amongst the Todas, a pastoral people of the Neilgherry Hills of Southern In...
Perhaps those same, glorious rainbow hues swirled in the light above the hills of Bethlehem that night! This is the only public-domain image that hints toward what I’m imagining! Some people enjoy adding such facts and conjectures to their bank of knowledge. Better yet is to let such ...
37 You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory; 38 and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over ...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionMay God give you heaven’s dew and earth’s richness— an abundance of grain and new wine.New Living Translation“From the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth, may God always give you abundant harvests of grain and bountiful new wi...
For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;Berean Study BibleFor the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the ...
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower Which is at the head of the verdant valleys, To those who are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, Like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, Lik...
streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills;8a land with wheat and barley,vinesand fig trees,pomegranates, olive oil and honey;9a land where breadwill not be scarce and you will lack nothing;a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills....
*Poem and artwork by Eric Verbovszky Entrenched in our churches, walls we’ve built in our searches, they’ve become our perches. Not crossing valleys, stuck in our alleys, on our way to our rallies. Afraid of the fog, drunk from our grog, ...
But Luther understood: with God as our spiritual refuge, we find the comfort, strength, and support we need through the darkest valleys (Psalm 23). Godwilllead us to triumph and provide victory over fear. Another confidence-building scripture is tucked into the book of Nahum: “The Lord is...