February - 2018

"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the fat

Clearly, this is not an exhortation to lovelessness per se. We are not asked to turn a cold shoulder to everyone and everything. The...

“Men at ease have contempt for misfortune . . .” (Job 12:5)

The truth of this maxim is well documented. Youth, under the protective sponsorship of parents and elders, feel bullet-proof and hazard...

“Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.” (Job 5:2).

Proverbs are the considered reflections of individuals who have been around for a while and know a thing or two about how things go in...

"Does Job fear God for nothing?" (Job 1:9).

It can be instructive to occasionally listen to one's own prayers. They have the potential to remind us of our native desire to make God...

"Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another" (1 John 4:11).

Note the thrust of God's love: it bears in the direction of others like ourselves, whom he loves--our fellow human beings. One of the...

"He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their maker, but whoever is kind to the needy hon

What is it about the poor that interests God so much? The question hovers and bothers us because the poor rate very poorly in the kingdom...

"But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and

How should God conduct himself; what should he be doing? Only the God of the Bible would humble himself to invite mere humans to...

"I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourself so that when it is gone you will b

Many a sage word is uttered to the effect that it is best to live life on the assumption that when it is over, there will be nothing. ...

"The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother"(Luke 7:15)

That God could retrieve his people to himself even after they had died was an idea that began to take shape in the last two centuries of...

"The Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired

As a small boy, it was for me a crucial given, that my dad was utterly tireless. He could work hard without having to stop and rest. He...

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"Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously wi

“But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of the cov

" . . .So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ

"Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many gr

"Jesus replied, 'The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified'"

"In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in

" . . . He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ f

"Simon Peter asked him, 'Lord, where are you going?' Jesus replied, 'Where I am goi

"Though you have not seen him you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe

"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you

"It was revealed to them that were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the thing

"If you really knew me, you would know my father as well" (John 14:7).

"Like newborn babies crave pure spiritual milk so that you may grow up in your salvation, now t

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