8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.  In Norman Rockwell’s painting The Rookie, a young baseball player walks into the Red Sox clubhouse…

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, 35 but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. “The only good so-and-so is a dead so-and-so.” Fill in the nationality of your choice and you are a member of the sinful human race with billions…

            Nineveh is like a pool        whose waters run away.                    “Halt! Halt!” they cry,        but none turns back.              9       Plunder the silver,        plunder the gold!                    There is no end of the treasure        or of the wealth of all precious things.                10       Desolate! Desolation and ruin!        Hearts melt and knees tremble;                    anguish is in all…

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. When we walk past…

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, 9 if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, 10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name…

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him,…