“My eyes fail with longing for Your word, while I say, `When will You comfort me?’” (Psa 119:82).
Psalm 119 is an acrostic Hebrew poem, with eight lines in 22 stanzas, with each line in each stanza beginning with a succeeding letter of the Hebrew alphabet. This memory device would…
“The law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces” (Psa 119:72).
How valuable is God’s written Word to me? Before the printing press, copies of the Bible were made by hand. One estimate is that it would take one copyist 3 years to…
“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army” (Ezek 29:19).
In the news, we hear of changing…
“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness” (Matthew 6:33).
Priorities are like the sail of a ship—the way they bend determine where you go. No issue is more fundamental to life’s destiny than determining your priorities.
Yet, I am convinced that most of us do not examine our…
September 11, 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the evil attack by radical Muslim terrorists on our country. Four airplanes were hijacked by suicide pilots to be used as missiles, laden with innocent American lives. With the attack on the Washington D.C.’s Pentagon and New York’s Twin Towers, nearly 3,000…
“The Everlasting God…gives strength to the weary and strengthens the powerless. Youths may faint and grow weary, and young men stumble and fall, but those who trust in the LORD will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will
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“For the Lord GOD helps Me, therefore, I am not disgraced; Therefore, I have set My face like flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed” (Isa 50:7).
This verse is part of Isaiah’s “Servant Songs” that progressively points away from Israel (Isa. 42:19, 44:1) to the Suffering…
“He sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, whereby we cry, `Abba, Father’” (Gal. 4:6).
Somebody once said that it’s easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. About 34% of children at home in the U.S. (that’s 24 million…
“Paul…spoke of faith in Christ…discussing righteousness, self-control and judgment to come” (Acts 24:24-25).
Some think they can cleverly escape the consequence of their crimes. For example, the U.S. has only a 61% conviction rate for murders.There are many criminals on death row that file innumerable appeals as a delaying tactic,…
“Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind…” (Job 38:1).
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced there were 226 tornadoes on April 27th across the southeast United States, which were more tornadoes sited in a single day in America than any other day in weather history. Alabama…
