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Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. —Psalm 90:2 and 4 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's...

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of...

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. —1 Thessalonians 5:11 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... While Paul's exhortation here is excellent, it is the style of the exhortation we should especially notice. We live in an age where we are constantly...

Thine, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. —1 Chronicles 29:11 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Praise is the...

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. —Proverbs 15:1 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Why is it so hard to endure an unjust or unfair criticism? Why do we always have to defend ourselves no matter how ridiculous the charge? Often the problems we have with...

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself...

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we...

In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. —Psalm 56:4 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... One of the powerful things about having a Bible, a repository of God's words, is that its age and varied countries and cultures remind us how...

But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them. —Psalm 103:17-18 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Forever love is...

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. —Romans 12:15 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... We are not alone. God has given us each other to live our lives for him and get us back home to him. Along the way, we want to share each others burdens, soar on each others joys...

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. —Acts 20:24 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... How important is grace...

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. —John 3:17 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... How do you view God? Is he someone looking for a way to condemn you? Is he an out of touch old man who doesn't really know what it's like...

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: —James 1:19 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Have a brake on your tongue; hit the throttle on your ears. Let your angry email sit three days before responding and make sure you read it and edit it...

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another. —Romans 12:10 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Being "devoted to another in brotherly love" requires that our church talk — we're family, brothers and sisters, children of God — must be more than...

Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. —Romans 15:2 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Being disappointed and dissatisfied with life can be caused by a myriad of things. But for many of us, these are symptoms that we have focused too much on ourselves and are...

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. —Galatians 5:13 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Freedom is a wonderful gift when it is handled with responsibility. Not being under law is such a sweet grace...

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. —1 Corinthians 1:10 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... If people...

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. —Romans 15:5-6 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Unity comes from God's Spirit as we...

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. —James 3:17-18 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's...

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. —Hebrews 6:10 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... So much assurance in such a short verse! God is not unjust — boy is that an...