Titus 1:5-7 This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— 6 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. 7 For an overseer, as…

Psalm 4:4-5               Be angry, and do not sin;        ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah              5       Offer right sacrifices,        and put your trust in the LORD.  If you read biographies of novelists, you will no doubt see attempts to connect events in the novels to the author’s life, often without a…

Titus 2:11-12 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, “Why should I?” Many a child has wanted to ask that question of a parent but hopefully didn’t dare. Likewise, Vicki, being a math teacher,…

Revelation 2;19-20 I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. 20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.  There…

Matthew 16:13-15 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”  When…

Psalm 116:10-11         I believed, even when I spoke:        “I am greatly afflicted”;              11       I said in my alarm,        “All mankind are liars.”  There is a phrase that goes, “Never meet your heroes.” It is sound. In looking at this psalm, we can add to that, never believe your heroes. I myself have been burned by those…