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Afraid yet filled with joy.  Matthew 28:8 (NIV)   Certain right actions are just plain scary to do.  Walking across the aisle in church...

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.  Colossians 3:2 (NIV) When we are thankful, our minds are indeed set on things...

"Come unto Me!" Matthew 11:28 A few years ago, I did a study on Matthew 11:28-30 because I just had never studied this passage before. ...

Their hearts are callous and unfeeling, but I delight in your law.  Psalm 119:70  (NIV)   Up to this point, the author of Psalm 119 has...

For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 2 Timothy 1:6 (NIV) I...

My heart, O God, is steadfast; I will sing and make music with all my soul. Psalm 108:1 NIV Being steadfast is to be anchored, have sure...

You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.  Isaiah 26:3 (NLT) Peace can be allusive,...

Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).  John 19:17 (NIV) Jesus had been on...

Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping.   Her tears fell on his feet, then she wiped them off with her hair.  Then she kept...

His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”  John 2:5  (NIV) As we are now in this new year, things may be different,...

Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable –...

He (Jesus) went on a little farther and fell to the ground. Mark 14:35 (NLT) I have written about this before. In fact, the date is...

When he arrived and saw the evidence of the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their...

We know that we have come to love him if we obey his commands. 1 John 2:3 (NIV) It was 5 o’clock in the morning. ...

Peter followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. There he sat with the guards and warmed himself at the...

Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done. Psalm 105:1 (NIV) I did a thing. For various...

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. Hebrews 12:7 (NIV) There’s enduring and then there’s enduring. And...

And will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the Word. Acts 6:4 (NIV) What grabs your attention? A sale at your favorite...

Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Galatians 5:25 (NIV) How does one keep in step with recovering broken...

For we live by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (NIV) Are walking and living the same thing? Well, given my current circumstances,...