Joy Petroelje

Read: Psalm 139 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. (v. 13) It shows up on Facebook, words laid over a flowered background:

Read: Colossians 3:12-17 As the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. (v. 13) Yesterday we focused on the apostle Paul’s admonishment to release bitterness, one of a

Read: Ephesians 4:24-32 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. (v. 31 NIV) Perhaps you’ve heard this

Read: Romans 12 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. (v. 6 NIV) In a recent church service I attended, new elders and deacons

Read: Matthew 1:18-25 When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife. (v. 24) The Bible tells us quite a

Read: Luke 5:1-11 And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.” (v. 10) One of the first Sunday school songs I

Read: Philippians 3:7-16 But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead. (v. 13) In a little more than a month, we will

Read: Matthew 6:25-34 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. (v. 26) For several

Read: Ephesians 2:1-10 [God] made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions . . . (v. 5 NIV) My home state of Michigan is known for