1   The LORD is king! Let the earth rejoice;            let the many coastlands be glad!  2   Clouds and thick darkness are all around him;            righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.  3   Fire goes before him,            and consumes his adversaries on every side.  4   His lightnings light up the world;            the earth sees and trembles.  5   The mountains…

5These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, 6but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7As you go, proclaim the good news, ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ 8Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out…

1If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am…

When Micaiah son of Gemariah son of Shaphan heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll, 12 he went down to the king’s house, into the secretary’s chamber; and all the officials were sitting there: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and…

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“If when we plunge our hand into a bowl of water, Or stir up the fire with the bellows, Or tabulate interminable columns of figures on our book-keeping table, Or, burnt by the sun, we are plunged in the mud of the rice-field, Or standing by the smelter’s furnace, We do not fulfill the same…

“When we treat children’s play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that’s to be found in the creative spirit. It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.”

1   Sing aloud to God our strength;            shout for joy to the God of Jacob.  2   Raise a song, sound the tambourine,            the sweet lyre with the harp.  3   Blow the trumpet at the new moon,            at the full moon, on our festal day.  4   For it is a statute for Israel,            an ordinance of the God of Jacob. …

36One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. 37And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. 38She stood behind him at his feet,…

8In Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet and had never walked, for he had been crippled from birth. 9He listened to Paul as he was speaking. And Paul, looking at him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, 10said in a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.”…