Matthew 6:25-34The Cure for Anxiety25 “Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? 27 Can any of you ad...  Read More

Joshua 24:14-24The Covenant Renewal14 “Therefore, fear the Lord and worship him in sincerity and truth. Get rid of the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and worship the Lord. 15 But if it doesn’t please you to worship the Lord, choose for yourselves today: Which will you worship—the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the gods of the Amo...  Read More

Psalm 23 (The Lord is My Shepherd)The Lord is my shepherd; I have what I need. 2 He lets me lie down in green pastures;he leads me beside quiet waters. 3 He renews my life; he leads me along the right pathsfor his name’s sake. 4 Even when I go through the darkest valley, I fear no danger,for you are with me; your rod and your staff—they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence o...  Read More

Romans 5:1-5 (Rejoice in Suffering)5 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 We have also obtained access through him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance, 4 endurance pro...  Read More

Ephesians 2:1-10 (Saved by Grace)And you were dead in your trespasses and sins 2 in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient. 3 We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under w...  Read More

James 2:14-26 (Faith Without Works is Dead)14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him?15 If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way faith, if...  Read More

Luke 15:11-24 (The Parable of the Prodigal Son)11 He also said, “A man had two sons. 12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.’ So he distributed the assets to them. 13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living. 14 After he had s...  Read More

Acts 2:1-21When the day of Pentecost had arrived, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like that of a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were staying. 3 They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and rested on each one of them. 4 Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Sp...  Read More

Romans 8:28-3928 We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he als...  Read More

Psalm 42:1-11As a deer longs for flowing streams, so I long for you, God. 2 I thirst for God, the living God.When can I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night,while all day long people say to me, “Where is your God?” 4 I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God,with joyful and thankful shouts. 5...  Read More

Jeremiah 29:11-1411 For I know the plans I have for you” this is the Lord’s declaration “plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you” this is the Lord’s declaration “and I will restore your ...  Read More

Psalm 16:1-11Protect me, God, for I take refuge in you. 2 I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have nothing good besides you.” 3 As for the holy people who are in the land, they are the noble ones. All my delight is in them. 4 The sorrows of those who take another godfor themselves will multiply; I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,and I will not speak their names with my lips. 5...  Read More