Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple who he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Dear woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.                                Philippians 3:13 (NIV, 1978) What is the

“Woman,” he said, “why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.” Jesus said to her, “Mary.”    John 20:15-16 (NIV, 1978) Little is

We think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?  Matthew 6:27 (NIV, 1978) There was a brief exchange between flight controllers in the Academy Award-winning movie, Apollo 13, that took place as the wounded spacecraft was beginning its return to earth. The engineer monitoring their angle of

DRAWN TO THE TRUTH Watch your life and your doctrine closely.  Persevere in them, because if you do,    you will save both yourself and your hearers.   1 Timothy 4:16 (NIV, 1978) I have always tried to veer away from overt self-promotion because I view that as being contrary to the humility

Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?  1 Chronicles 17:16. (NIV, 1978)  The life of King David is a magnificent study in contradictions. When Samuel informed Saul that his time as king of Israel was coming to an end,