19 “Don’t store up for yourselves treasures[a] on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. (Matthew 6:19 CSB) Whether we are talking about the materialism of getting more, more, more or we are talking about financial means there must be a reasonable process for...

8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’s knees and said, “Go away from me, because I’m a sinful man, Lord!” (Luke 5:8 CSB) So often I feel like Peter. Just wanting the Lord to go away from me because I am a sinful man. But that is...

9 For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,[a] 10 so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to...

2 How long, exalted ones,[a] will my honor be insulted? How long will you love what is worthless and pursue a lie? (Psalm 4:2 CSB) There is something fascinating about just sitting quietly and listening to the world around us. Not only from the aspect of a need for quiet...

“As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, Rabbi who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? Neither this man nor his parent sinned, said Jesus, but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in...