These will probably not be the words from the Word you might be expecting as we enter November and the traditional season of giving thanks and feasting. Even though they’re not a typical collection of thanksgiving verses, they are 11…
{Editor’s note: from time to time we’ll be re-visiting really fine articles previously published and this is one of them! Originally published January 2012.} The Valley of the Shadow is quiet and still, with no breath of wind and no…
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow…
Before my cells were strung together, before blood began to flow through tiny veins, before my eyes opened, before oxygen filled my lungs, before my parents spoke my name ~ He already knew me. (Psalm 139) Before I walked a…
Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our…