Our son and daughter-in-law are flying in today for a family visit and when our daughter recovers from a virus soon, we will all be together after 5 years apart. Needless to say, I didn’t get much sleep last night. I didn’t do my usual Bible chapter reading this morning but I sat in prayer with our…

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13. The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. Habakkuk 3:19. We have reached the final words of Job and they stretch over 5 chapters. In…

Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before…

“She will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall…

If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? Luke 11:13.  As for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. Micah…

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went…

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalm 100:5.  Reading this chapter, Job 20, I can’t help but wonder at the disconnect Job must have felt between his life before and his life now, in hearing the words of his friends. Remember God’s words about Job? Have you considered…