Jonah 4:11 (NIV):  And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?” I live in the Kansas City metropolitan area that has a[Read More…]

Obadiah 1:3 (NIV):  The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, “Who can bring me down to the ground?” I did a search for pictures on “pride” and all[Read More…]

Amos 5:21 (NIV):  “I hate, I despise your religious festivals; I cannot stand your assemblies.” I grew up attending the “General Protestant” service of the Main Post Chapel at Fort Hood, Texas. We prayed. We sang. We encouraged each other. We listened to God’s Word. During those years we didn’t[Read More…]

Joel 1:2 (NIV):  Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors? I embrace following Jesus. I embrace Biblical values. I am pro-life from conception to natural death. I am pro Biblical[Read More…]

Hosea 6:1 (NIV):  “Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.” I have made bad decisions that have lasting consequences. I have wronged others. I have withheld truth from[Read More…]

Daniel 12:2 (NIV):  Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. I once led a group of military members in an exercise to help them embrace important life issues. I had each of them draw a line[Read More…]

Ezekiel 18:23 (NIV):  “Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” declares the Sovereign LORD. ”Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?” I remember driving through the West Virginia mountains before the completion of Interstate 64. Crazy. It was a two[Read More…]

Lamentations 3:6 (NIV):  He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead. I’ve been in total, complete darkness a few times in my life. Some of those experiences were intentional training. Other times the darkness was unintentional. Each of those times made me feel out of control. I[Read More…]

Jeremiah 29:10-11 (NIV):  This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and[Read More…]

Isaiah 64:6 (NIV):  All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. I use rags. In fact, the above picture is of my rags[Read More…]