Category: A Very Present Help

   For you save a humble people,        but the haughty eyes you bring down.              28       For it is you who light my lamp;        the LORD my God lightens my darkness.              29       For by you I can run against a troop,        and by my God I can leap over a wall.  […]

But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. 34 He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 And […]

On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’  I’m sorry, have we […]

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in […]

Who is sufficient for these things? 17 For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ. Jimmy Breslin wrote a book about the 1962 Mets who won only 40 games. The rhetorical question says it […]

      You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night,        you have tested me, and you will find nothing;        I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.              4       With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips        I have avoided the ways of the violent.              5 […]

Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry!        Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!              2       From your presence let my vindication come!        Let your eyes behold the right!  Bossy boots! Perhaps you have been called that but I doubt recently since it is from a bygone […]

I love the LORD, because he has heard        my voice and my pleas for mercy.              2       Because he inclined his ear to me,        therefore I will call on him as long as I live.  I will do so, “on one condition”. The secret weapon of parents the world over. We love our […]

12 How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife? 13 Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’ 14 And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’  We all love our […]

 Blessed is the one who finds wisdom,        and the one who gets understanding,              14       for the gain from her is better than gain from silver        and her profit better than gold.              15       She is more precious than jewels,        and nothing you desire can compare with her.  When the universities […]