What Has Been Done

24 Therefore I tell you, everything you pray and ask for—believe that you have received[a] it and it will be yours. (Mark 11:24 CSB) I do not know about you, but I have trouble believing something will happen before it does. Maybe I am too pragmatic for that. However, today’s scripture calls for a different … Read more

I Am Nothing

13 If I speak human or angelic tongues[a] but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I … Read more

If You Can

22 “…But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” 23 Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’?[a] Everything is possible for the one who believes.” 24 Immediately the father of the boy cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9: 22b-24 CSB) In our scripture today a man … Read more

Comfort & Control

2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is mature, able also to control the whole body (James 3:2 CSB) I was hoping by this stage of life I would be at a place, personally, where I did not stumble and had control. Then I … Read more

Three Keys

28 Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,and he brought them out of their distress.29 He stilled the storm to a whisper,and the waves of the sea were hushed.30 They rejoiced when the waves grew quiet.Then he guided them to the harbor they longed for. (Psalm 107:28-30 CSB) Today’s scripture has three … Read more