Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. Psalm 19:14 Some ten or twelve years ago, I had a playlist of tunes that helped pump me up while jogging. Recently I decided to listen to it again while on…

As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him.Matthew 9:9 Imagine you’re at work. Doesn’t matter if you’re a stay-at-home mom in the kitchen, a teacher in a classroom, a nurse in a hospital,…

“Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?” And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it. So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look…

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love,…

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, as He already existed in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men. Philippians 2:5-7 (NASB) Martial arts include…

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might.Ecclesiastes 9:10a You meet some very interesting people when you go to the county jail. Some of them were raised in Christian homes with good parents. Many of them, not so much. Some of them are very intelligent, and others seem to have burned a…

You will show me the path of life. In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Psalm 16:11 Do you enjoy travel? Or are you a homebody? I guess I’m one of those in-between people who really enjoys going somewhere new… at first. Until I start to miss all…

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17 (NIV) There is a scene in the old movie “Shenandoah” where Jimmy Stewart’s character, Charlie Anderson, “thanks” God in prayer for their food only after monologuing about how they…