Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. There was a time, …

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. We have all heard…

17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.  It is a rare triumph of fatherhood to assemble a gift late on Christmas Eve and have it perform…

 But I am a worm and not a man,        scorned by mankind and despised by the people.              7       All who see me mock me;        they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;              8       “He trusts in the LORD; let him deliver him;        let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”  In this…

In those days they shall no longer say:                    “ ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,        and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’  30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.  My Great-grandfather owned a Christian publishing company, two coal mines, and a tourism company. The…

Then David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die, 6 and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”  7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man!” If you read yesterday’s devotional,…