Archive for January 2020

Psa. 51:11-13 Do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.  Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit.  Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted and return to You. No one’s Christian walk is…

Pro. 17:22 A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. Two sisters, twins, grew up in the same home and in the same way.  In their youth, they were very close and very similar. Unfortunately, life was not always kind.  Their lives were…

Heb. 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, stripping off every unnecessary weight and the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles us, let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us, focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter…

Jn. 16:19-23 Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’?  Very truly I tell you, you will weep…

Jn. 15:9-11 I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love.  If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.   I have told you these things so that My joy…

Rom. 15:13May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. There are many things that all people have in common regardless of faith or spiritual opinion.  One of those things is the characteristic…

Neh. 8:9-10 Then Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping when they heard the words of the Law. Then…

1 Cor. 4:14-16 I do not write these things to shame you, but to warn and advise you as my beloved children. For even if you were to have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for I became your father in Christ Jesus through the good news. So I…

Mark 9:35-37 Sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and a servant of all.”  Taking a child, He set him before them; and taking him in His arms, He said to them, “Whoever receives and welcomes one child such as…