1 Corinthians 10:1-3 — For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, ² and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in ...  Read More

Psalm 133:1, 3b — Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! . . . For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, “It is grace, nothi...  Read More

Psalm 13:1 — How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? Lament is a common style of psalm, but it is not one that we tend to hear regularly in the modern c...  Read More

1 Peter 1:17 — 17 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,After a week of reflecting on an...  Read More

1 Samuel 2:12 — Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the Lord.Without the surrounding context, this first sentence reads quite comically. In the first chapter, Eli’s sons are intr...  Read More

Psalm 2:1-2 — Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail? 2 The kings of the earth form a united front; the rulers collaborate against the Lord and his anointed king...  Read More

Isaiah 41:10 — fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.It may not come as a surprise to ...  Read More

Come Holy Spirit Come,John 14:26 — But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. This p...  Read More

By the WaterPsalm 1:3 — He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.  (Psalm 1:3, ESV)I have to be...  Read More

What’s this about aliens?Ephesians 6:12 - For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against ...  Read More

Light5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie an...  Read More

ExaminationsJeremiah 17:10 - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his wa...  Read More