The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (for Jews don’t associate with Samaritans). Jesus replied, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would …
One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. The story …
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them… But for Adam[f] no suitable …
Listen, it is the voice of someone shouting, “Clear through the wilderness for the Lord! Make a straight highway through the wasteland for our God! Fill in the valleys, and level the mountains and hills. Straighten the curves, and smooth out the rough places. Then the glory of the Lord will be revealed and …
The Lord God said, “Let us make humankind in our image”… “It is not good for the man to be alone.” We are wired to be with others. We were created so. When God said, “It is not good for man to be alone,” I believe in that moment He was thinking in general …
When [Batimaeus] heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’ Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly, ‘Son of David, have mercy on me!’ Jesus stood still and said, ‘Call him here.’ And they called the …
8 Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?”… 11b So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table like one of the king’s sons. Noting Mephibosheth’s comment about himself you might be forgiven into assuming that he was feeling sorry for himself and his disabling circumstances. I …
“Don’t be afraid,” David said to [Mephibosheth], “for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.” David’s benevolence does beg the question, would he have shown this kindness …
Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. Each time he said ‘My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness”. So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses so that the power of Christ can work through me. The golden thread running throughout scripture is that …
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. sight or makes them blind? When we gaze upon a scan of a new life being formed in its mother’s womb we …