2020

4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all

4 Fathers,[a] do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. – Ephesians 6:4 Like all people,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— 3

Isaiah 12 is a short chapter (particularly for Isaiah), but it beautifully describes the joy of God’s people after the saving work of the Messiah

“Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.” Miroslav Volf, Exclusion & Embrace (Abingdon Press, 1996).* 

31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[b]

29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30