Proverbs 22:17-19 “Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. That thy trust may be in the LORD, I...
Continue ReadingProverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Popular folk wisdom, heavily promoted by groups like Planned Parenthood, says that it is pointless to teach teenagers that premarital sex...
Continue ReadingIsaiah 45:12 “I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, [even] my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.” Would the early Indian settlers in North America have been able to understand modern twenti...
Continue ReadingPsalm 5:11 “But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.” If you haven’t been feeling cheerful lately, maybe you sho...
Continue Reading2 Corinthians 3:12 “Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech…” Do you believe in a recent, special creation by God? Those of us who do are often ridiculed as being on the fringe. The suggestion is that only a smal...
Continue ReadingMatthew 6:25 “Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?” The hard-driving, powerful execu...
Continue ReadingPhilippians 2:5-7 “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the liken...
Continue ReadingPsalm 57:8-9 “Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will awake early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.” On the first morning of the time change to daylight savings, it’s a litt...
Continue ReadingMatthew 26:41 “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.” Those who truly believe that the Bible is the Word of God consider its moral instruction as being God’s absolutes. Others thi...
Continue ReadingMatthew 15:19 “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.” Scripture warns us that how we occupy our minds affects our behavior. Unfortunately, modern voices have said something e...
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