2 Corinthians 1:12  For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. Ok, how many really read all the fine print before your ‘John Henry’ [...]

Job 13:15  Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. I recently took Haydn to see this guitarist that actually came through small little Burlington way back in the early seventies and was a part of forming my lifetime passion of playing. This guy [...]

Philippians 3:17  Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. Even though I grew up in a part of Colorado where you could look for miles and miles without seeing anything, including the mountains, I was very fortunate to have parents who grew up [...]

Luke 22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. My son had a friend recently present to him some discrepancies he had discovered about what God is supposed to be like. He said something to the effect that if God really loves us [...]

Psalms 85:6  Will You not revive us again so that Your people may rejoice in You? You really don’t know what living is until you’ve had one true moment of rejoicing in the Lord. Yet, there is this continual embrace of things that are so far removed from the realm of the living- things that [...]

Romans 8:35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? :36  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. :37  Nay, in all these things we [...]

2 Corinthians 10:2  But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. :3  For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: [...]

Psalms 32:1  A David psalm. Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be– you get a fresh start, your slate’s wiped clean. Psalms 32:2  Count yourself lucky– GOD holds nothing against you and you’re holding nothing back from him. (The Message) For some reason this passage reminded me of a couple things to which I [...]

Colossians 3:2  Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Affection- phroneō From G5424; to exercise the mind, that is, entertain or have a sentiment or opinion; by implication to be (mentally) disposed (more or less earnestly in a certain direction); intensively to interest oneself in (with concern or obedience) I [...]

Proverbs 31:30 The woman to be admired and praised is the woman who lives in the Fear-of-GOD. :31 Give her everything she deserves! Festoon her life with praises!   She found herself in this role that wasn’t necessarily what she had been looking for in life and in many ways kept her from fulfilling many [...]