Habakkuk 3:17-19 (Pressing Through Life’s Challenges) Though the cherry trees don’t blossom and the strawberries don’t ripen, Though the apples are worm-eaten and the wheat fields stunted, Though the sheep pens are sheepless and the cattle barns empty, (challenges) I’m singing joyful praise to God. I’m turning cartwheels of joy to my Savior God. Counting […]

Judges 16:10-21 (Pressing Beyond Modern-Day Samsons) …15 Then she (Delilah) said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.” 16 And it came to pass, when she pestered him (Samson) daily with […]

Philippians 3:7-14 (The Prize of the High Calling) …10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: […]

Luke 10:38-42 (Pressing On in Life, in the Mindset of Mary or Martha – The Lords Feet) 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lords feet listening to […]

Matthew 7:1-5 (Beware of the Leaven of Hypocrisy) 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? […]