Watch What You Say

Watch What You Say

“From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.” (James 3:10, ESV) According to James, the tongue, the words we speak to and about others, can ignite a fiery blaze of hate and poison. No doubt we can understand...
Mercy

Mercy

“If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.” (James 2:8-9, ESV) As we have...
Mercy

God’s Comfort

“Say to those who have an anxious heart, ‘Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.’” (Isaiah 35:4, ESV) What encouraging words to hear in these chaotic times. All people...
Jesus is Amazing

Jesus is Amazing

“And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, ‘He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.'” (Mark 7:37, ESV) The gospels record that Jesus healed many who were deaf and mute, usually referenced in a collective...
Watch What You Say

Do not be Defiled

“Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?’ (Thus he declared all foods clean.) And he said, ‘What comes out of a person is what defiles...