“The most important (commandment) is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

  “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