Verse of the Week

A weekly, encouraging blog

  • It’s an Annual Post

    I still love it.

  • You need these verses

    Sometimes I have difficulty getting into the skin of what verses in the Bible are trying to say. So, I go into my fancy Logos Bible program – or jump to Bible Hub or Blueletter Bible on my phone – and took up the word-for-word translation. After some study, and stealing from other translations, I…

  • Simplified Cooley Version

    2 Corinthians 4:7-9 in the SCV: The light of God’s power is inside me. I’m fragile, but His power is great. That’s why I’m troubled but not crushed, perplexed but not giving up, spiritually terrorized but never abandoned by God, hurled down but unbroken.  I was trying to memorize 2 Corinthians 4:7-9, and realized paraphrasing it…