1 Thessalonians 4:18 Therefore encourage one another with these words. In the last part of this chapter, Paul writes about life and death. He encourages the Christians in Thessalonica that they need not grieve when someone dies. ‘Do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope’ (verse 13). The reason is that those […]
2 Samuel 19:30 Mephibosheth said to the king, “Let him take everything, now that my lord the king has returned home safely.” Mephibosheth was the son of Jonathan, David’s friend. He was the sole survivor of Saul’s household and was lame at both feet. David gave him a place at his own table in 2 […]
2 Samuel 1:17 David took up this lament concerning Saul and his son Jonathan… Saul was finally slain. Worldly thinking would have David jumping up and down, praising God that his enemy was gone. Not David. He wept. He took time to write a song, a lament, and taught it to the people. Such character! We […]
Ruth 2:22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else’s field you might be harmed.” Ruth was setup for her future, by marrying Boaz. She became the great-grandmother of king David, and one of the ancestors […]
1 Corinthians 13:4-5,7,13 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Three things will last […]
1 Corinthians 7:1-2Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter: “Is it good to abstain from sexual relations?” I say because there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman should have her own husband. People regularly ask us, what is the position of the church when it […]