11 “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. (Matthew 5:11-12 ESV) While my daughter, son-in-law and grandson were...

3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,    the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,4 what is man that you are mindful of him,    and the son of man that you care for him? 5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings[a]    and crowned him with glory and honor. (Psalm...

11 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. (Hebrews 5:11 ESV) We are, as a society, losing our ability to make significant enough change to right the course of our actions. We are allowing so much bad behavior to...

3 “You shall have no other gods before[a] me. (Exodus 20:3 ESV) This may seem like one of the most simple of requirements God has for us in our faith walk. I doubt any who profess Christ would believe they put any god before Him. But are we taking this simple line...

20 Immediately they left their nets and followed him. (Matthew 4:20 ESV) Consider the immediacy of what the first disciples did in our scripture today. We have to read this and think that there must have been more conversation around what Christ was asking them to do. I mean, who just...