“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” – Matthew 5:4 “Blessed are those who mourn,”…. there is so much bound up in that single word, “mourn.” The loss of hopes, the slow disintegration of dreams, mothers taken, fathers struck with sickness, husbands and wives cut off from each other in this […]

  “And this is the name by which he will be called, “YHWH is our Righteousness.” – Jeremiah 23:6   The kings of Judah during Jeremiah’s days were corrupt and idolatrous. 23:1 tells us that they were like shepherds who destroyed and scattered their sheep. However, the Lord promises to raise up a Righteous King from

  “Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.” – John 17:11   Oneness…? One of the central themes of Jesus’ prayer in John 17 is the “oneness” of His disciples. This is not simply a prayer for unity or synergy

  “When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it beside Dagon. But when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold Dagon had fallen face downward on

  “…day and night they never cease to say, ‘Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!’” – Revelation 4:8 “Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.” – Mark 5:5   Looking at Angels

  “If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my confidence, if I have rejoiced because my wealth was abundant or because my hand had found much, if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor, and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my

    “…and the LORD remembered her.” – 1 Samuel 1:19 He Remembered Her Hannah is barren. She has no – and can have no – children. This loss is the ache of her waking life and a burden she’s carried for many years. In 1 Samuel 1:15 we read that Hannah took this pain and

  “One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   Wrapping Up Well, we’ve arrived at

  “One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   Over the last five posts we’ve

  “One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   The Four Spheres of Beauty For

  “One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   The First Two “Spheres” So far

  “One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   Where We’ve Been In the previous

“One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   Beauty is Relational In the last post

    “One thing I have asked of the LORD, and that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.” – Psalm 27:4   The Centrality of Seeing Beauty

“No one who keeps on sinning has either seen Him or known Him.” – 1 John 3:6 The Verse Explained These are clear and soul-piercing words. No one who continues in unrepentant, un-fought sin has seen or known God in Christ…. Now, I say these words are clear, but why do I qualify “sin” by

“…the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory, and I will set a sig among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations…to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare

“If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, yet you will plunge me into a pit…There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.” – Job 9:30-31,33 There is some question as to whether Job is addressing God in the first part of this quotation or his

    “And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, al the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them…” – Deuteronomy 4:19 “Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He

  “…no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” – Matthew 11:27-28   How Do We Know God? How can a creature know its creator? How can the finite

    “…Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her, that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that He might present the Church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.”