“The number 143 means ‘I love you.’ It takes one letter to say ‘I’ and four letters to say ‘love’ and three letters to say ‘you.’ One hundred and forty-three. ‘I love you.’ Isn’t that wonderful?”

1   O LORD, you have searched me and known me.  2   You know when I sit down and when I rise up;            you discern my thoughts from far away.  3   You search out my path and my lying down,            and are acquainted with all my ways.  4   Even before a word is on my tongue,            O LORD, you know…

13Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16Simon Peter…

11Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse! Its rider is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. 12His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems; and he has a name inscribed that no one knows but himself. 13He is clothed in…

27Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with rejoicing, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres. 28The companies of the singers gathered together from the circuit around Jerusalem and from the villages of…

“The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we’re neighbors and all members of the human family.”

1   Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,            you who lead Joseph like a flock!       You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth  2        before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh.       Stir up your might,            and come to save us! 3   Restore us, O God;       let your face shine, that we may be saved. 4   O LORD God of hosts, …

1The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test Jesus they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. 2He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ 3And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how…

1After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying,       “Hallelujah!       Salvation and glory and power to our God,  2        for his judgments are true and just;       he has judged the great whore            who corrupted the earth with her fornication,       and he has avenged on her the blood…

1Now when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that there was no gap left in it (though up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates), 2Sanballat and Geshem sent to…