Read: Luke 1:39-45 Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord. (v. 45) Mary must have smiled. Finally, after
Read: Psalm 8 When I look at your heavens . . . the moon and the stars . . . what is man that you are mindful of him? (vv. 3-4) We caught fish all
Read: Luke 1:46-55 My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. (v. 46) Every December when his children were little, pastor and writer Lou Lotz and
Read: 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 God loves a cheerful giver. (v. 7) I keep this quote from the theologian Karl Barth on my desk: “Gratitude follows grace like thunder lightning.” Everything I
Read: 1 Thessalonians 3:1-13 We pray most earnestly night and day. (v. 10) The problem-plagued moon mission of NASA’s Apollo 13 gripped the world for seven anxious days in April of
Read: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 You received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit. (v. 6) I was moved last winter by a request from a family
Read: James 1:2-5, 16-18 Count it all joy . . . when you meet trials of various kinds. (v. 2) During my early years as a pastor, I led a retirees’ Bible study of
Read: Psalm 63 You have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy. (v. 7) In India, Vivaan and his wife were driven
Read: Romans 5:1-5 When the American writer Henry David Thoreau lay on his deathbed, an old aunt came to him and asked if he had made his peace with God. “Madam,”
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