Who may climb the mountain of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place? — Psalm 24:3 “God is my friend,” declares a darling four-year-old Sunday school student. We shouldn’t just smile at this. We should also nod. A profound theologian is on hand, and we...

    Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, “Teacher, don’t you care that we’re going to drown?” When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Silence! Be still!” Suddenly the...

    Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. He went to Beersheba, a town in Judah, and he left his servant there. —1 Kings 19:3   A poster on the door of a first-floor restroom at the Geisinger CMC hospital in Scranton, PA, provides helpful information. If you...

    So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again; then you will rejoice, and no one can rob you of that joy. —John 16:22   To say no one can rob you of joy? Wow! This IS a powerful, remarkable, and tremendous gift. This gift is...

  On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.  — Revelation 22:2b I wonder how many of us choose the bad news second when...

“Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”— Matthew 14:28 We may or may not realize it but, like Peter, we confront or challenge Jesus. We confront or challenge Jesus in direct and indirect ways. For example, we challenge Jesus when we get...

  “By all means, go,” the king of Aram replied. “I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold and ten sets of clothing.  — 2 Kings 5:5 Summertime travel. Most of us pack....

    Very early the next morning, the king got up and hurried out to the lions’ den. When he got there, he called out in anguish, “Daniel, servant of the living God! Was your God, whom you serve so faithfully, able to rescue you from the lions?”— Daniel 6:19-20...

        The Lord gave this message to Jonah son of Amittai: “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh…”  But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction to get away from the Lord. — Jonah 6: 1 and 3, NLT My friend Becca had it...

  “Why should we shed any blood? Let’s just throw him into this empty cistern here in the wilderness. Then he’ll die without our laying a hand on him.”… So when Joseph arrived, his brothers ripped off the beautiful robe he was wearing. Then they grabbed him and threw him...