"Desiring that you, (insert name of opposition candidate), might be filled with the knowledge of His will." - Colossians 1:9

"Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor." - Luke 19:8

Wolf and lamb dwelling together? Ox and lion grazing side by side? Let's not be too literal about this.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

His name shall be called Wonderful.

Blessing and cursing out of the same mouth? This ought not to be.

"Two men went up into the temple to pray." - Luke 18:10

What's blessed about needing to mourn? Why are there two Beatitudes about persecution?

"Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil." - Isaiah 5:20

The refrain of Psalm 24 could actually be the theme question for the entire Bible, beginning to end: Who is the King of Glory?

Odd, isn''t it, how much more readily we expect forgiveness than offer it.

Need wisdom? Ask it of God, who gives liberally to one and all.

How many Bible commands did I blithely blow off yesterday? Hmmm, this may require a calculator. 

All of us, when we look in the mirror, should see a little of Ezra and Nehemiah looking back at us.

No parable Jesus told is more lovely than the prodigal son, his brother, and their father. Look up Rembrandt's painting of it, and Nouwen's book.

"If there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things" -- Philippians 4:8

"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." -- Exodus 20:8

Oh to see ourselves as others see us, prayed the poet Robert Burns.

When life breaks you, the world may sympathize or merely shrug.  But it's just the moment God has been waiting for.

No point fretting about the mess our country is in, when the early Christians had it so much worse and still managed to be a shining light.