Category: A Very Present Help

 You have kept count of my tossings;        put my tears in your bottle.        Are they not in your book?              9       Then my enemies will turn back        in the day when I call.        This I know, that God is for me.              10       In God, whose word I praise,        in the […]

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, The late Robin Williams said of Jack Nicholson, […]

For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.  Theoretical physicists use visual analogies to explain their theories of the universe because our brains need to make it […]

Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, 6 and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. […]

Glory in his holy name;        let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice!              4       Seek the LORD and his strength;        seek his presence continually!              5       Remember the wondrous works that he has done,        his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,              6       O offspring of […]

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.  If you are in Vietnam and yell the name, “Nguyen!”, a third of […]

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. The first words of John echo the first words of Genesis. In the beginning. Genesis means beginning. John tells us that the Word was there in the beginning. That Word […]

        When my life was fainting away,        I remembered the LORD,                    and my prayer came to you,        into your holy temple.              8       Those who pay regard to vain idols        forsake their hope of steadfast love.              9       But I with the voice of thanksgiving        will sacrifice to you;                    what I have […]

38 Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?” 39 He said to them, “Come and you will see.” In the past few decades, the rise of the “seeker church” and “seeker friendly service” has been […]

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have […]