As we face the COVID 19 crisis as a country and stay-at-home orders as a community, Acts 16 speaks to me. In Acts 16, Paul and Silas are flogged and impriso...

Call it cycling, ruminating, rehashing--there are all sorts of terms that essentially describe the same thing. Fear goes and comes around. Like a dog that ...

In the wake of COVID-19, it is easy to ruminate on the "what ifs" and "could bes." Soon, I imagine myself carried away on a wave of fear, surfing massive bi...

The extent of our free will is encouraging, and convicting. We choose, on so many levels, how to navigate through the muck and mire of life in a broken worl...

"You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind (both its inclination and character) is stayed on You, because he commits himself t...

"Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set ...

"Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And ho...

"Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither...

"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8, NIV "Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it ...

"But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not cru...

"Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will ...

"Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God,the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint grow weary; his understandin...

"Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion? Can you bring out the constellations in their season and lead the Bear and her cubs?...

"Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?  But becau...

"I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,  and so, somehow, atta...

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.  For our light and momentary troubles ar...

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus ...

"Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. He had said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you m...

"Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elijah w...

“After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. When he received these orders, he ...