“Kenneth Koch once said, “You aren’t just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!”

1   I love the LORD, because he has heard            my voice and my supplications.  2   Because he inclined his ear to me,            therefore I will call on him as long as I live.  3   The snares of death encompassed me;            the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;            I suffered distress and anguish.  4   Then I called on the…

15 When Jesus became aware of this, he departed. Many crowds followed him, and he cured all of them, 16and he ordered them not to make him known. 17This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah:  18  “Here is my servant, whom I have chosen,            my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased.       I…

1Now concerning the collection for the saints: you should follow the directions I gave to the churches of Galatia. 2On the first day of every week, each of you is to put aside and save whatever extra you earn, so that collections need not be taken when I come. 3And when I arrive, I will send any…

1In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he sent a herald throughout all his kingdom, and also in a written edict declared: 2“Thus says…

“One can’t write about the soul. Looked at, it vanishes.”

“It’s very important, no matter what you may do professionally, to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children’s play is not just kids’ stuff. Children’s play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.”

1   You who live in the shelter of the Most High,            who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,  2   will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress;            my God, in whom I trust.”  3   For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler            and from the deadly pestilence;  4   he will cover you with…

1At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.” 3He said to them, “Have you not read…

51Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and…