9 About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. 10 In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even… Read ⇢

“But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the curtain, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift,…” – Numbers 18.7 (CSB) Their work assignments were unending.… Read ⇢

I recently came across this paragraph that caused me to underline and highlight it with such passion that I resembled a five-year-old coloring feverishly to finish his picture for his mom on Mother’s Day before she came downstairs. “I have put great emphasis on the fact that Christians worship because… Read ⇢

“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work,” Jesus told them. – John 4.34 (CSB) The disciples had just come back from finding food while and exhausted Jesus sat by Jacob’s well and had a life-changing conversation with a lone Samaritan… Read ⇢

Should God repay you on your terms when you have rejected his? – Job 34.33 (CSB) Start with simply asking that first part of the question. “Should God repay you…? If we ever have any hint of “yes” in our souls when we answer that question, it is then we… Read ⇢

He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!” – John 2.16 (CSB) Can you picture it? Jesus is standing in the temple watching his people being taken advantage of by those who were supposed to be caring… Read ⇢

Would it go well if he examined you? – Job 13.9 (CSB) Examined – חָקַר (ḥā·qǎr) In his book “Working the Angles,” Eugene Peterson makes this statement, causing me to pause and reflect this morning, “It is by exchanging sounds, not snapshots, with each other that revelation takes place and… Read ⇢

If I summoned him and he answered me, I do not believe he would pay attention to what I said. – Job 9.16 (CSB) Job experienced so much pain and sorrow as he walked through his purposed season of affliction. He lost everything. His adult children were all killed on… Read ⇢

“During this earthly pilgrimage our life cannot be free from temptation, for none of us comes to know ourselves except through the experience of temptation, nor can we be crowned until we have come through victorious, nor be victorious until we have been in battle, nor fight our battles unless… Read ⇢