“Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon. And when he was in...
“He has made everything beautiful in its time” Ecclesiastes 3: 11a. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Not just being born, planting, healing and building up. But also: Dying. . .plucking up. ....
“. . . who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end” Deuteronomy 8: 16. This...
“Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.. . ” Romans 5: 20. This familiar verse tells us essentially that we can’t out sin grace. I’ve...
“The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters” Genesis 1: 2. This verse marks...
“But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel” Exodus 1: 12. This verse is referencing...
“Then the Lord said to Noah, ‘Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation’” Genesis 7: 1. The familiar story of Noah’s ark hardly...
“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus...
“Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. . . ” Romans 5: 3, 4. How Does Suffering Produce Character? This passage tells...
“But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that...