MAKING DECISIONS & ANXIETY
“Do not be anxious/worried about anything (μηδὲν μεριμνᾶτε), but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your...
FIRST OF ALL, PRAY
“First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all who are...
LET HIM DO THE SOWING
“Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Other seed fell on rocky...
A LORD FULL OF SURPRISES
"When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him....
THE “RIGHT” THING ISN’T ALWAYS RIGHT
“When Herodias's daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and the king said to the girl, ‘Ask me for whatever you...
HER LIFE-GIVING CROSS
“I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.” (Ps 115:4 / Ps116:13) This Psalm-verse functions as the “Communion...
LOVING IMPROPRIETY
“…and a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of...
SELF-CENTEREDNESS BLINDS
“And the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. When his family (οἱ παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ) heard it, they went out to restrain...
DEALING WITH REJECTION
“For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has taken me in.” (Ps 26/ 27: 12) The Psalms give expression to practically...
BACK TO BASICS
“Now I remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand,...
