Are we so good as to deserve it when good things happen? Are we so bad as to deserve tragedies? We kid ourselves in both cases.

Whispered words tend to be hurtful words that are fun to hear but hard to shake. And they can do real damage.

David strove with old covenant hope to dwell with God. Because of Jesus, we can seek God with glorious certainty.

When the Spirit helps Christians to remain steadfast under trial that is one of God's good gifts.

As powerful as our words can be, they're nothing compared to God Word.

⁹Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. ²²A joyful heart is good medicine, but a...

Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! ²⁴And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way...

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! ¹⁸If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake,...

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. ¹⁶Your eyes saw my...

Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. ⁵You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me....

O LORD, you have searched me and known me! ²You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. ³You search...

Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. ¹⁰For if while we...

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, ⁵even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive...

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. ¹⁹Do not quench the Spirit. ²⁰Do not despise...

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." —John 14:6 After telling Peter that he will...

..."Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. ²When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;...

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my...

[So] faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. —Romans 10:17 There’s hearing and then there’s hearing. The same...

[But] you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies...

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, ⁴⁰yet you...