But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.  Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.  Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your […]

John 9:22 [The once-blind man’s] parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for already the Jews had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Christ would […]

Galatians 3:1-3, 13 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you?  Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.  I would like to learn just one thing from you: […]

“Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, … She is a tree of life to those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her […]

She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.  I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, […]

When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: … Genesis 41:1a As we read through the events of this chapter we are left in no doubt that the […]

[The Twelve] went out and preached that people should repent. Mark 6:12 In Chapter 6, Mark presents us with an interesting juxtaposition of events in the earthly ministry of Jesus. He […]

“He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.  Come and see the place where he lay.  Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from […]

A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.  The crowds that went ahead of him […]

“The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you […]

[Jesus] said to [the disciples at the Last Supper], “It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me.  […]

The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus.  He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but […]

[The Levites] were to serve before the LORD regularly in the proper number and in the way prescribed for them.  And so the Levites carried out their responsibilities for the Tent […]

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!  In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of […]

“The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land – not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a […]