Today’s Scripture – August 11, 2013

Matthew 5:33-37 (NIV):  “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.’  But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the...

Today’s Scripture – August 7, 2013

Matthew 5:31-32 (NIV):  “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’  But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who...

Today’s Scripture – August 6, 2013

2 Samuel 11:4 (NIV):  Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she went back home. There is no small amount of irony in this single verse.  Bathsheba had offered the sacrifice...

Today’s Scripture – August 6, 2013

2 Samuel 11:4 (NIV):  Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she went back home. There is no small amount of irony in this single verse.  Bathsheba had offered the sacrifice...

Today’s Scripture – August 3, 2013

Psalm 126:4-6 (NIV):  Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negev.  Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.  He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him. Many in America these days...

Today’s Scripture – August 2, 2013

Psalm 44:1-3 (NIV):  We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.  With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers; you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish.  It was not by...