Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying, “Ask a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will ...
Praise the Lord, my soul.
2 I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.3 Do not put your trust in princes, in ...
“Be appalled, O Heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate,” declares the LORD, “for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the f...
It was around noon when the Samaritan woman ventured out of her home to draw water from the well. Her morning must have consisted of the usual house chores, th...
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God.”
The beatitude above, which is found in Chapter Five of Matthew’s Gospel, is the first o...
That Nicodemus, see him searching
through the darker night to find the
Good Teacher. He didn’t get very
far, that Nicodemus, indeed he didn’t
even ask a quest...
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth. He will not let y...
, “Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for, I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven. What do...
God, I want to pray and tell you that Lent is too hard, that fasting is too frustrating, the meditation too unmanageable, your Spirit too distant. But at the v...
“Miserable offenders, spare thou them,” the congregation intoned as I bowed my head. The Church I usually feel so uplifted by felt transformed into a place of ...
