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A father to the fatherless…is God in his holy dwelling. —Psalm 68:5 Click Here to Read Today's Scripture: Psalm 68 One day, as I was talking with my four-year-old nephew Aziel, he said, “I want to call my dad right now.” However, his dad was at work, and I knew he READ MORE -
Cast all your cares on him, for he cares for you. —1 Peter 5:7 Click Here to Read Today's Scripture: 1 Peter 5:6-7 Our family had just arrived in Liberia, West Africa, after a 10-hour flight. We had come for a three-year term, and our carry-on bags were heavy. Even READ MORE -
Give us this day our daily bread. —Matthew 6:11 Click Here to Read Today’s Scripture: Matthew 6:9-13 “Our Father, who art in heaven…” This is a prayer etched in my heart and mind, as for most of us Christians, so much so that it sometimes becomes merely a religious repetition. READ MORE -
Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. —Matthew 5:16 Click Here to Read Today’s Scripture: Matthew 5:14-16 A couple of years ago, I began playing football with some Spanish-speaking guys at the football field in our neighborhood here READ MORE -
If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. —Matthew 17:20 In 2009 when I co-hosted a TV talk show, I shared on the show the frustration I had experienced 10 years earlier after being fired READ MORE -
Come unto me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. — Matthew 11:28 Click Here to Read Today’s Scripture: Matthew 11:25-33 In the poem “Not Waving but Drowning,” English poet Stevie Smith tells the story of a man who swam too far into the sea READ MORE -
Nothing can ever separate us from God's love. –Romans 8:38 (NLT) Click Here to Read Today's Scripture: Romans: 8:31-39 “Come say hello to my friend,” I hollered upstairs for my nephew Isaac and niece Isaanra, seven and six years old. They were spending the week with me in Belmopan to READ MORE -
Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. —Matthew 25:40 Some years ago, when my now husband and I were dating, he told me that his mom required surgery for which she needed to travel abroad, to Merida, Mexico. READ MORE -
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. —Ps 34:18 Click Here to Read Today's Scripture: Psalm 34 One of our daughters gave my wife a porcelain hand with a heart in its center. One day, one of our grandsons was admiring it READ MORE