Mark 13:24-37 (Read it on Bible Gateway) Like a Thief in the Night Find More Resources at The Text This Week This passage from the Gospel of Mark is a solid sign we have entered Advent. By way of brief reminder, Advent is the season of ...

Romans 8:38-39. Come home and I'll throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen. Luke 15:7. I have always been Father, and will always be Father. Ephesians 3:14-15. My question is…Will you be my child? John 1:12-13 ...

This passage certainly seems a nice counterpoint to the two previous readings for this Sunday (see Devotions: Psalm 80 and Isaiah 64:1-9). Paul continues his greeting to the Church at Corinth and describes in his words an obviously ...

(Psalm 126:1). B. Distress causes actual believers to turn to God for what they cannot supply themselves. “A Song of degrees. In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.” (Psalm 120:1) “And said, I cried by reason of mine ...

1. The failure to trace sin to its source leaves a person or a culture limping between incompatible visions of realty, morally stalled. “And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD ...

As we come to the Isaiah passage for this First Sunday in Advent, we find the themes from the Psalm reading continued. Isaiah's passage is also a prayer for intercession and restoration from God. This passage does not make specific ...

MATTHEW 7:13-14 “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, ...

KJV (39) - assay, 1; examine, 1; go about, 1; prove, 1; tempt, 29; tempter, 2; try, 4; NAS (40) - did, 1; put, 1; put to the test, 2; tempt, 2; tempted, 13; tempter, 2; test, 6; tested, 2; testing, 7; tried, 2; trying, 2 ...

PSALM 32 A psalm of David. Oh, what joy for those... PSALM 31:19-24 How great is the goodness you have... PSALM 31:1-13 For the choir director: A psalm of D... PSALM 30 A psalm of David. A song for the dedicati. ...

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