What will separate us from the love of Christ? Trouble? Calamity? Persecution? Hunger? Nakedness? Danger? Violence? ⦠For Iâm certain that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, neither heights nor depths â nor anything else in all creation â will be able to separate us from the love of God t...
On the twenty-fourth day of the month the word of Adonai came a second time to Haggai: âSpeak to Zerubbabel, the high commissioner of Judah. Say this: âI am going to shake the heavens and the earth. I will overturn the judgment seats of entire countries and destroy the power of the rulers of the nations. I will overthrow their chariots and cha...
Formerly I knew you only by word of mouth, but now I see you with my own eyes. Job 42:5 The book of Job is a long and anguished dispute about justice. Job...
Love is patient; love is kind. Love is not jealous, it does not put on airs, and it is not snobbish; it is never rude or self-seeking; it is not prone to anger, nor does it brood over injuries. Love doesnât rejoice in what is wrong, but rejoices in the truth. There is no limit to loveâs forbearance, to its trust, its hope, its power to endure....
Hanani, one of my brothers, came there with other Judeans. I asked them about Jerusalem, and about the Jewish remnant, the survivors of the exile. They told me, âThe survivors of the captivity who returned to the province are in serious straits and are humbled. The wall is in ruin and its gates are burned down.â When I heard this, I sat down a...
In the first year of the ruler Cyrus of Persia, Adonai âfulfilling the word spoken through Jeremiah â inspired the ruler to issue a proclamation in writing throughout the land. It was written, âThis is the proclamation of Cyrus, ruler of Persia: Adonai of heaven gave me all the realms of the world, and God has appointed me to build a temple ...
Do you encounter the living God through the stories, images, and ideas presented in the scriptures? Yet, as a LGBTQ person also experience the dark use of the bible to berate and intimidate you?
