Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. Ernest Hemingway was famous for spare, to the point writing that trimmed the fat with few words. Hemingway would have appreciated…

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”  6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he…

5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. Parents, teachers, and even pastors, know that about the time you are tired of saying the same thing over and over, the people you are speaking to are…

      The LORD is your keeper;        the LORD is your shade on your right hand.              6       The sun shall not strike you by day,        nor the moon by night.                7       The LORD will keep you from all evil;        he will keep your life.              8       The LORD will keep        your going out…

14 When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan. 15 And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus. 16 Then he…

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. As Josh McDowell has said,…