“I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you

- the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you - every living creature on earth.”

Genesis 9:9-10

“But let everyone be quick to hear,

slow to speak and slow to anger.”

James 1:19

“Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. News about him spread all over Syria,

and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them.”

Matthew 4:23-24

I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; from whence shall my help come? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. . .

The Lord will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul. The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forever.

Psalm 121

“The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble,

and He knows those who take refuge in Him.”

Nahum 1:7

“But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God,

ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end, everlasting life.”

Romans 6:22

“Now we see only reflections in a mirror, mere riddles, but then we shall be seeing face to face.

Now I can know only imperfectly; but then I shall know just as fully as I am myself known.”

1 Corinthians 13:12

Once when Jesus was praying in private and his disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say I am?”

They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that one of the prophets of long ago has come back to life.” “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered. “The Christ, [the Messiah] of God.”

Luke 9:18-20

“Since we have such a huge crowd of men of faith watching us, let us strip off anything, that slows us down or holds us back, and especially those sins

that wrap themselves so tightly around our feet and trip us up; and let us run with patience the particular race that God has set before us.”

Hebrews 12:1

“You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure;

you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.”

James 5:5

The voice spoke again,

“Don’t contradict God! If He says something is kosher, then it is.“

Acts 10:15

“But remember this - the wrong desires that come into your life aren’t anything new and different. Many others have faced exactly the same problems before you. And no temptation is irresistible.

You can trust God to keep the temptation from becoming so strong that you can’t stand up against it, for He has promised this and will do what He says. He will show you how to escape temptation’s power so that you can bear up patiently against it”

1 Corinthians 10:13

“But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

But whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.”

James 2:9-10

“God is our refugee and strength,

a very present help in trouble.”

Psalm 46:1

“Christ Himself died once and for all for sins,

the upright for the sake of the guilty, tolead us to God.”

1 Peter 3:18a

“Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.

For it is the one who is least among you all who is the greatest.”

Luke 9:48

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born,

I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Jeremiah 1:5

“To one who knows the right thing to do

, and does not do it, to him it is sin.”

James 4:17

As years pass, there is a lot of fanfare with the passing of seasons, and new year celebrations.

Calendars change. Time rolls on - from when no one really knows. One thing, however, has

Hebrews 11:1-12:2

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him;

for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

1 Samuel 16:7

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; Thou anointest my headwith oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”

Psalm 23

“How long, O Lord? Will you forget me for ever?

How long will you hide your face from me?”

Psalm 13:1

(The call of Abram and the ancestral sagas) Now the Lord said to Abram,

Go forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house to the land which I will show you. . .

Genesis 12:1-15

“So give yourselves humbly to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. And when you draw close to God, God will draw close to you.

Wash your hands, you sinners, and let your hearts be filled with God alone to make them pure and true to him.”

James 4:7-8

“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting,

for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.”

James 1:5-6

“Let the giving of your

thanks be your sacrifice to God. . .”

Psalm 50:14

“Arise, cry out in the night as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord.

Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children who faint from hunger at the head of every street.”

Lamentations 2:19

“Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see

Your good works and glorify your Father Who is in heaven.”

Matthew 5:16

“A perverse man stirs up dissension,

and a gossip separates close friends.”

Proverbs 16:28

After they had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up before them and said: “Men, you should have taken my advice not to sail from Crete; then you would have spared yourselves this damage and loss.

But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because not one of you will be lost; only the ship will be destroyed.”

Acts 27:21-22