“Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the LORD. “The British are coming!” Okay, according to most history scholars, this never happened. He never yelled those words but was more discreet….

Psalm 116:5-9       Gracious is the LORD, and righteous;        our God is merciful.              6       The LORD preserves the simple;        when I was brought low, he saved me.              7       Return, O my soul, to your rest;        for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.              8       For you have delivered my soul from death, …

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. 3 At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— 4 that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.  My hermeneutical…

I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, 5 because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints, 6 and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us…

And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called the name of that place, “The LORD will provide”; as it is said to this…

And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”  NIMBY. Not in my backyard. This is a phrase used for a good thing that everyone knows we need like a sewage treatment plant or a nuclear power plant,…