EN 
ES May 15
“Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.” We believe in a mystery known in bread and wine A living God beyond history, incarnate in time In […]
May 14
“Oh how happy is the woman who believes in God, for his promises to her came true.” In May of 1976 this verse of scripture was on the cover of the Mother’s Day bulletin from what was then River Oaks Cumberland Presbyterian Church. I saved it and eventually decoupaged it on a plaque which hangs […]
May 13
“Honor thy father and mother.” When I was a young teenager, I participated in a Christian “flagpole” group that met before school. It was there that I met representatives from the local university’s Campus Crusade for Christ. When I asked my father to let me attend one of their meetings, he refused adamantly. Instead of […]
May 12
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” Remember the Sunday School song, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus?” It is my good fortune to have a friend of many years. She and her husband have retired in another state but we […]
May 11
“In the beginning God created heaven and earth.” In the beginning – not after something else, not when something else had happened but in the beginning. Created – not started, not developed, not thought about, but created. Heaven and earth – not earth, not heaven, not a little thing, but heaven and earth. God did […]
May 10
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.” Until recently, I did not really understand today’s scripture. I was reading it to say “all things are good in God.” Then, when difficulties came my way, bitterness and doubt […]
August 5
“If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever – the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you know Him, for He lives with you […]
December 31
“That I might finish my course with joy.” Paul was granted his heart’s desire. “I have finished my course”, he wrote later, and it was with joy. Not with money or earthly possessions, because he wrote from a dark dungeon, needing his cloak and parchments, not with a host of friends, for all men forsook […]
December 30
“Continue to love each other like brothers, and remember always to welcome strangers, for by doing this, some people have entertained angels without knowing it.” How different my actions would be if I treated others as if they might be angels. If I could remember to have the sense of wonderment and awe for my […]
December 29
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through […]