Scripture: Psalm 84:10 – “For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my...

Scripture: “I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me. If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech...

Scripture: Job 5:17-18 – “How happy is the one whom God reproves; therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. For he wounds,...

Scripture: Matthew 6:18 – “…so that your fasting may be seen not by others but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees...

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 2:14 – “But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession and through us spreads in...

Scripture: Jeremiah 29:11 – “For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give...

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 7:17 – “However that may be, let each of you lead the life that the Lord has assigned, to which God called you....

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:14 – “Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and lawlessness have in common? Or what...

Scripture: Isaiah 41:14-15 – “Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you maggot Israel! I will help you, says the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy...

Scripture: James 3:18 – “And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.” (NRSVue) What does it mean to be...

Scripture: Isaiah 49:15 – “Can a woman forget her nursing child or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these might forget,...

Scripture: John 7:41:42 – “Others said, ‘This is the Messiah.’ But some asked, ‘Surely the Messiah does not come from Galilee, does he?...

Scripture: Psalm 27:14 – “Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!” (NRSVue) Advent is the time...

Scripture: Revelation 18:7-8 – “As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her a like measure of torment and grief. Since in...

Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:8-9 – “Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David—that is my gospel, for which I suffer...

Scripture: Deuteronomy 8:10 – “You shall eat your fill and bless the Lord your God for the good land that he has given you.” (NRSVue)...

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14:23-24 – “If, therefore, the entire church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or...

Scripture: Matthew 15:5 – “But you say that whoever tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is given to...

Scripture: Revelation 7:14b – “Then he said to me, ‘These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes...

Scripture: John 5:43 – “I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept...