“Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God” Psalm 42:5. “Winter can be brutal on your hands.” So said the ancient 70’s advertisement for dish soap, but it can be just as brutal on your spirits,…

“Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them” (Ephesians 4:19b NLT). “The tongue can bring death or life” (Proverbs 18:21a).     To leave a room better than you found it, is a considerate way to live life. But far more important is…

“Who may stand in His holy place? Only those…who…never tell lies…” (Psalm 24:3b,4) And the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver purified in a crucible, like gold refined seven times. (Psalm 12:6) How many times a day do we tamper with the truth? We pad this, we down-play that to serve our purposes. Followers…

“Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders.” Deuteronomy 33:12 Almost everyone longs for romance. Little wonder. God was the One to think it up; we were made for relationship. When God created Adam, he knew…

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