A couple nights ago, we went to mom and dad’s to hang out and have dinner. Josiah had cut a couple of teeth and added some new baby babble and an army crawl to his bag of tricks since they had last seen him, so we went and had some catfish and played some boccie [...]
I read this in the Scripture this morning, and I thought the ESV wording is really interesting: The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.
Have you ever read Isaiah 53 from The Message? It’s powerful… Several days ago, I saw Los’ suggestion to check out this song, “Healer”. So I went to the link and heard the song, and watched the video about the story behind it. And then I watched the performance of it. …over and over and [...]
I was reading in Luke 6 this morning. After Jesus pronounces His ‘blesseds’, He pronounces His ‘woes’: 24(AS) “But woe to you who are rich,(AT) for you(AU) have received your consolation. 25“Woe to you who are full now, for(AV) you shall be hungry. “Woe to(AW) you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.” [...]
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15But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for(A) many. 16And the free gift is not like the result of that one man’s sin. For(B) [...]
I noticed this scripture in Acts 13 for this first time this morning: (38) Let it be known to you therefore, brothers,(CL) that through this man(CM) forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, (39) and by him(CN) everyone who believes is freed[c] from everything(CO) from which you could not be freed by the law of [...]
Our son or daughter — we’re calling him/her ‘Baby Riesland’, and ‘BR’ for short — is about 8 weeks old. 8 weeks. 8 weeks ago, people were stressing what to get for valentines day and looking forward to March madness. Now, in that short amount of time, little BR has attached nicely to Steph’s insides, [...]
