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As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. (Psalm 42:1) The heart wants what it wants. I did not know that was...

You must demolish completely all the places where the nations whom you are about to dispossess served their gods, on the mountain...

If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. - Psalm 139:8 May is Mental Health Awareness month, a...

I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being. -Psalm 104:33 Outside my window, it seems as...

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was ...

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. - Psalm 139:14 You know that moment when you meet someone for the first time, and...

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or...

The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and...

Weekly Meditation So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas for them; and after flogging Jesus, he handed him over to be...

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father...you are of more value than...

The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. (Psalm 145:18) On the first floor of my college dormitory, just...

Do not be too righteous, and do not act too wise; why should you destroy yourself? - Ecclesiastes 7:16 It seems a bit strange for the...

And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness for forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with...

Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from...

The steward said to the bridegroom, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk....

It shall be said, "Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people’s way.” Isaiah 57:14 One thing I can say...

Happy/Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God... - Psalm 146:5 My wife thinks I have a...

I offer this a day earlier than usual in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Weekly Meditation Blessed are the meek, for they will...

Weekly Meditation Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth,...

So this is Christmas And what have you done? Another year over And a new one just begun. (John Lennon) In an online class I took this...