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…

“In a young child’s mind, parents probably condone what’s on the television, just like they choose what’s in the refrigerator or on the stove. That’s why we who make television for children must be especially careful.”

1   Praise the LORD, all you nations!            Extol him, all you peoples!  2   For great is his steadfast love toward us,            and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever.       Praise the LORD!

22He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. 23For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds…

7On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul was holding a discussion with them; since he intended to leave the next day, he continued speaking until midnight. 8There were many lamps in the room upstairs where we were meeting. 9A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, began…

1Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish kin. 2For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many; we must get grain, so that we may eat and stay alive.” 3There were also those who said, “We are having to pledge our fields,…

“All we’re ever asked to do in this life is to treat our neighbor—especially our neighbor who is in need—exactly as we would hope to be treated ourselves. That’s our ultimate responsibility.”

1   Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion,            which cannot be moved, but abides forever.  2   As the mountains surround Jerusalem,            so the LORD surrounds his people,            from this time on and forevermore.  3   For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest            on the land allotted to the righteous,       so that the righteous might not…

31He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; 32it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make…

4And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the people of Israel:  5From the tribe of Judah twelve thousand sealed,           from the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand,           from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,         6from the tribe of Asher twelve thousand,           from the…