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 your soul 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, Christians can be both negligent

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 “so that it may go

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 had been completed, that is,

“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).*  How do you and I

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] 32 This is a profound

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 for we are members of