If only you had listened to my commands! Your peace would be like a river that never runs dry. Your righteousness would be like waves on the sea. Your descendants would be like sand. Your children would be like its grains. Their names would not be cut off or wiped out in my presence. ~ […]

For as you know him better, he will give you, through his great power, everything you need for living a truly good life: he even shares his own glory and his own goodness with us! And by that same mighty power he has given us all the other rich and wonderful blessings he promised; for […]

He hoped for justice but saw only slaughter, for righteousness but heard only cries of distress. ~ Isaiah 5:7b, God’s Word translation

This is what I will do if you will live by my laws and carefully obey my commands: I will give you rain at the right time. The land will produce its crops, and the trees in the field will produce their fruit. Threshing time will last until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last […]

He takes care of his flock like a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in his arms. He carries them close to his heart. He gently leads those that have little ones. ~ Isaiah 40:11, New International Reader’s Version

He said, “I am the LORD your God. Listen carefully to my voice. Do what is right in my eyes. Pay attention to my commands. Obey all of my rules. If you do, I will not send on you any of the sicknesses I sent on the Egyptians. I am the LORD who heals you.” […]

[In] the whole of world history there is always only one really significant hour – the present…. If you want to find eternity, you must serve the times. ~ German Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed by the Nazis for publicly opposing Hitler, as quoted in the book, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, by Eric Metaxas

Click to enlarge… He chose what the world looks down on and despises and thinks is nothing, in order to destroy what the world thinks is important. ~ I Corinthians 1:28, Good News Translation