9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[a]10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every...

71 It was good for me to be afflicted    so that I might learn your decrees. (Psalm 119:71 ESV) Life is a lesson, you learn it when your through… Not sure where that quote may have originated, but Limp Bizkit immortalized it, and it has stuck with me. All of life...

1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1 ESV) Confidence and assurance are the two things most of us look for in this life. We desire a life where we can rely with confidence upon the assurance that everything...

15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!  (Romans 5:15 ESV) Through Adam’s sinful act all...

11 Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. 12 For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have. 13 Our desire is not that others...