Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.—Ecclesiastes 4:6 Like many Christians, I have more than one Bible. I have several in my office…
“My people have committed two sins:They have forsaken me, the spring of living water,and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”—Jeremiah 2:13 This past week I had an experience…
Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Why, Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Is this why you sent me? Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name,…
Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the…
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.—John 1:14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity…—Hebrews 2:14 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly…
This week, my thoughts are about the importance of listening to God, and how I don’t do it often enough. The Bible has a lot to say about listening. The prophet Elijah…
Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in…
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.—1 Thessalonians 5:18 …always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord…
And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that…
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and…