"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great LOVE." Mother Teresa

“Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”

The Parable of the 10 Virgins

"This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”

"There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger."

....but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

'thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John'

Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.

And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

"...on the threshold of a New Year ... Jesus, Light of the World, ... may we never let go of your loving arms.

With outstretched arms the Lord welcomes all into his fold, because the joy of the Lord is our strength

"We must live in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of God"

Today with outstretched arms we look up to heaven and cry “Abba, Father, give us the hope to endure to the end.”

“Jesus is saying we have to move from the shallow waters and then into the deeper waters of the Bible” MT

"What if I told you that Thanksgiving was God's idea?....Give thanks to God for everything!" M.T.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord....

God continues to administer His grace to us in profound ways that are sometimes unbeknownst to us.

We remember those in our own congregation, and those who have passed on this year...Lord we lift them up in prayer.

O king, live for ever. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me

I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God

Them bones, them bones, them dry bones, now hear the Word of the Load

...she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter stood before the gate. But they said to her, “You are beside yourself!” ...

The Kingdom perspective: "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven"

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

God seed; Queen's triple rainbows; 9/11; 2 brothers 1 nation because "the LORD is near upon all the heathen" (Obadiah 1:10)

...when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: and I will remember my covenant...

"Oh come and lay down the burdens you have carried for in this sanctuary, God is here."

We remember the fish which we ate in Egypt freely, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.