43 Summoning his disciples, he said to them, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. 44 For they all gave out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had —all she had to live on.” (Mark 12:43-44 CSB) Where do you give...

4 Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness[a] of life. (Romans 6:4 CSB) Life gets old. We become creatures of habit. Routine becomes repetitive. We find that days,...

16 Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 5:16) The first of my personal mission statement is ”To shine on all I meet”. This has a dual meaning for me. First,...

14 The disloyal one will get what his conduct deserves,and a good one, what his deeds deserve. (Proverbs 14:14 CSB) Solomon’s proverbs have so much to offer us in the way of solid scriptural advice for living. They are practical and provide quite a lot of commentary on the effects...

34 Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright. (Genesis 25:34 CSB) In our scripture today Esau gave up his birthright for a bowl of stew and some bread because he was hungry in that moment. He...