18 do not boast that you are better than those branches. But if you do boast—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you. (Romans 11:18 CSB) A branch cut from a tree will not live long. The tree separated from its root will not live long. Only...

37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Matthew 12:37 CSB) We have ceased to realize the weight of our words. We see this in the media and we hear it all around us, people spewing all forms of wrong. Good...

37 And a woman in the town who was a sinner found out that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house. She brought an alabaster jar of perfume 38 and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wash his feet with her tears. She...

4 because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. 5 Who is the one who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (1 John 5:4-5 CSB) Simply faith...

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...