The amount of anger given full vent in our society these days continues to amaze and appall me. There are confrontations in the streets...

So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides....

Haven’t I commanded you? Strength! Courage! Don’t be timid; don’t get discouraged. God, your God, is with you every step you take.”...

The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost.16But...

At about that same time he climbed a mountain to pray. He was there all night in prayer before God. The next day he summoned his...

Without counsel, plans go wrong, but with many advisers they succeed. Proverbs 15:22 NRSV We all have blind spots. In the same way that...

10 Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, ‘Listen and understand: 11it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person,...

"We're praying this so that you can live lives that are worthy of the Lord and pleasing to him in every way: by producing fruit in every...

Hallelujah! Thank God! And why? Because he’s good, because his love lasts. But who on earth can do it— declaim God’s mighty acts,...

Once when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing before him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went to him and...

Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it....

You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be renewed in the spirit of...

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking! Body and...

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy...

I am the Gate for the sheep. All those others are up to no good—sheep rustlers, every one of them. But the sheep didn’t listen to them. I...

The shepherd walks right up to the gate. The gatekeeper opens the gate to him and the sheep recognize his voice. He calls his own sheep...

May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Psalm 67: 1 NRSV This verse reads like a prayer. Perhaps it...

Every time you cross my mind, I break out in exclamations of thanks to God. Each exclamation is a trigger to prayer. I find myself...

Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your...

They brought the Chest of God and placed it right in the center of the tent that David had pitched for it; then they worshiped by...