16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.[a] (James 5:16 ESV) Prayer is a great divider among people. I know people who are great prayer warriors, who are really skilled at...

5 who satisfies you with good    so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. (Psalm 103:5 ESV) If you are anything like me the weeks get long and responsibilities stack up. We get older, but the energy requirement does not diminish. If anything, it only increases. I have rushed around like a...

19 He will again have compassion on us;    he will tread our iniquities underfoot.You will cast all our[a] sins    into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:19 ESV) The beauty of the salvation Christ brought to us on the cross is that He has atoned for all of our sins. He has trodden them...

7 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations,[a] a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9 But he said to me, “My...

12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,    the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! (Psalm 33:12 ESV) I do not like to either post about political topics or, really, even discuss them. We all have our views and I try to respect every person. But there is one...