Verse Concepts When I pondered to understand this, It was troublesome in my sight Psalm 88:14-18 OLord, why do You reject my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me? I was afflicted and about to die from my youth on; I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome. ...
My heart is overturned within me,For I have been very rebellious.In the street the sword slays;In the house it is like death.Lamentations 1:18 Verse Concepts “The Lord is righteous;For I have rebelled against His command;Hear now, all peoples,And behold my pain;My virgins and my ...
One night at dinner I said to my younger son, “Please pray for Mom as I have decided not to take my pain meds tomorrow. But I think it will be quite hard as I have developed a dependence on them over the last month or so.” My younger son looked at me and said earnestly, “M...
Let us take heart in these affirmations. Let us strengthen our resolve in times of adversity. Let us not be cowed by adversaries. Let us trust in the Lord’s strength and love to take care of his own. But there is a warning here also: let us not be the adversary to someone else a...
I have found that to be true each year as I’ve gone back through the Bible. Sometimes I find myself feeling as if a passage just appeared there for the first time. I’m reminded that no matter how many times we read through the Bible, we have only scratched the surface. I hope ...
So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. Here is the summarizing lesson of the parable. If you are ...
While you should take reasonable precautions, you do not need to fear. … With all the reality and hype about COVID-19 (the novel coronavirus) going around, the following came to mind: 1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He ...
that would otherwise take us years to do. He can line up our pathways to cross with others He wants us to meet. He can open doors that leave us surprised at how they open. He can close doors that He knows are not the best for us. He has a plan, in the good, and...
Although I am not fixed on Sabbath prohibitions anymore, I still feel guilty stopping at the shops on the way home from church – sometimes I’ll take off my dog collar and put on a t-shirt, to go incognito – a guilty remnant of my rule-based Christian formation....
I put the smaller sticks on top of them, get my face close to the ground, take a deep breath and blow as much air as I can onto those embers. In a matter of moments, the fire is back to going strong and the conversations continue. We know that David was a man after God’s ...