This is my comfort in sorrow: that your promise gives me life. —Psalm 119:50 I do believe! Help my unbelief. —Mark 9:24 For the last month or three the world has been shouting about Christmas, culminating in binge-opening presents this morning. After Christmas dinner this evening, nativities will be packed away, lights taken down, and Read More…

Exult greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem! Behold: your king is coming to you. A just savior is he, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. —Zechariah 9:9 My God will fully supply whatever you need, in accord with his glorious riches in Christ Read More…

Good sense makes a man slow to anger and it is his glory to overlook an offense. —Proverbs 19:11 With the tongue we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this ought not Read More…

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not rely on your own intelligence. In all your ways be mindful of him, and he will make straight your paths. —Proverbs 3:5-6 Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. —Matthew 11:26 It’s always amazing to me when I hear the allegations that Christianity is Read More…

As I live, says the Lord, I swear I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but rather in the wicked man’s conversion, that he may live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! Why should you die, O house of Israel? -Ezekiel 33:11 So submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and Read More…

You cannot plumb the depths of the human heart or grasp the workings of the human mind; how then can you fathom God, who has made all these things, or discern his mind, or understand his plan? No, my brothers, do not anger the Lord our God. —Judith 8:14 Anyone who wants to become great Read More…

Wrath and anger, these also are abominations, yet a sinner holds on to them. —Sirach 27:30 What difference does it make, as long as in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed? And in that I rejoice. Indeed I shall continue to rejoice. —Philippians 1:18 I chose these verses before Read More…

But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him. —Habakkuk 2:20 See what love the Father has lavished on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Read More…

The Lord, your God, who goes before you, is the one who will fight for you, just as he acted with you before your very eyes in Egypt. In the wilderness as well you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as one carries his own child, all along your journey until you arrived Read More…

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those whose spirit is crushed. –Psalm 34:19 Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Take this cup away from me, but not what I will but what you will. –Mark 14:36 There’s always something painful to me about listening to people try to pray spontaneously Read More…

He brought me forth into freedom. He saved me because he loved me. —Psalm 18:20 For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? — Mark 8:36 Supreme Court nominees will not save you. National security advisers will not save you. An Ivy League Read More…

May the Lord draw our hearts to himself, that we may walk in his ways and keep the commands, statutes, and ordinances that he enjoined on our ancestors. -1 Kings 8:58 He must increase; I must decrease. -John 3:30 When I was a teacher, I’d often hear my students describing the Catechism as “the rule book.” Each Read More…