There's a charming story about a five-year-old boy named Billy who had one simple line to deliver in his church's Easter program. He'd practiced it countless times at home: "He is not here. He is rise...  Read More

38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powe...  Read More

Daniel 3:19-27 (NLT)19 Nebuchadnezzar was so furious with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that his face became distorted with rage. He commanded that the furnace be heated seven times hotter than usua...  Read More

Isaiah 53:6 (NLT)All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.  We have left God’s paths to follow our own.Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.Proverbs 3:5-6 (NLT)5 Trust in the Lord with all your...  Read More

Hebrews 12:1-3 (NLT)1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily tri...  Read More

Isaiah 53:3-6 (NIV) 3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. 4 S...  Read More

There's a path in Jerusalem known as the Via Dolorosa—Latin for "the way of suffering" or "the sorrowful way." It marks the route Jesus walked on the day of his crucifixion, carrying his cross from Pi...  Read More

Isaiah 61:3 (NIV)  " . . . and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty    instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a  ...  Read More

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 (NIV)1     There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:2     a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,3     a...  Read More

2 Corinthians 9:6-11 (NIV)6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each of you should give what you have decided in yo...  Read More

Matthew 13:31-32 (NIV)31 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. 32 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it ...  Read More

Galatians 6:7-10 (NIV)7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spiri...  Read More