God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to…

And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.1 Corinthians 13:13 How do you like to spend these days at the threshold of the New Year? Do you like to just kick back and…

The Lord is near to the broken-hearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.Psalm 34:18 At the end of his novel A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway concludes: “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.” He…

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with…

So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure,…

If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law,…

He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose…

He sustained him in a desert land, in a howling wilderness waste;he shielded him, cared for him, guarded him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young; as it spreadsits wings,…

Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for theSon of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies,…

“For the Lord disciplines those whom he loves, and chastises every child whom he accepts.” Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children; for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline?... Now,…