Psalms 26:8-12 KJV (8)  LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. (9)  Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: (10)  In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. (11)  But as for me, I will walk [...]

Psa 19:12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. While all that extra stuff is actually serving a very useful and helpful function, for the person attempting to ‘pop the hood’ and look for a problem, it is so much more difficult now than back in the day when it was [...]

Mark 5:17 MKJV (17)  And they began to beg Him to leave their borders.      As soon as it is understood that it has and will cost something, there is usually much less acceptance of the source of healing and deliverance – when the miracle is for someone else anyway. Though it was surely amazing [...]

Psalms 132:8-9 KJV (8)  Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength. (9)  Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy. Growing up in the Behrman household there was always a sense of confidence that if something were wrong with anything around the house, [...]

Mark 2:27  Then Jesus said, “The Sabbath was made to serve us; we weren’t made to serve the Sabbath. (The Message) There’s this main street that passes the entrance to our neighborhood, and just about 150-200 yards from our entrance this street tees up to a main highway. There is, of course, a traffic light [...]

Genesis 18:32 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?”He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.” Just how important is the righteous life we choose in Christ? It may seem that it’s about us [...]

Ephesians 5:5  You can be sure that using people or religion or things just for what you can get out of them–the usual variations on idolatry–will get you nowhere, and certainly nowhere near the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of God. (Message) Of all the kingdoms in the world there is one that sits high [...]

Proverbs 7:18  Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. :19  For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: :20  He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. There is this illusion [...]

Ephesians 5:8  For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: :9  (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) :10  Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. :11  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but [...]

1Pe 1:13  So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. 1Pe 1:14  Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now. 1Pe 1:15  As [...]