2 Corinthians 4:7 MSG
(7) If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That’s to prevent anyone from confusing God’s incomparable power with us.
My wife recently commented about the political candidates, that they very much look [...]
Philippians 1:11 KJV
(11) Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Matthew 5:6 KJV
(6) Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
If you watched these past Olympics for any period of time at all, you saw something [...]
2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV
(17) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
To be in a place where all things are new is to be in a place of discovery. Just to step through the door and come upon the first [...]
Isaiah 50:4The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.
50:5The Sovereign Lord has opened my ears, and I have not been rebellious; I have not drawn back.
It’s all about the ability to [...]
Isaiah 49:15 NIV “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
49:16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
Really from the [...]
2 Thessalonians 1:11 MSG
(11) Because we know that this extraordinary day is just ahead, we pray for you all the time–pray that our God will make you fit for what he’s called you to be, pray that he’ll fill your good ideas and acts of faith with his own energy so that it all [...]
Jeremiah 2:13 KJV
(13) For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
You’re supposed to read the fine print, and, of course, all the instructions before using. But now, there is such a need to just go [...]
1 Corinthians 12:18 KJV
(18) But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
We were blessed several years ago with a minivan that we leased for a few years and then bought. It was so much fun to drive a brand new vehicle off the lot [...]
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, Dad was not [...]
Zechariah 9:13 Judah is now my weapon, the bow I’ll pull, setting Ephraim as an arrow to the string. I’ll wake up your sons, O Zion, to counter your sons, O Greece. From now on people are my swords.” (The Message)
During the conflict in Korea in the early 1950’s there was a great restriction on [...]
