Verse of the Week

[picture by Alessandro Cerino on Unsplash] When I was a kid, my dad would listen to a radio show by Paul Harvey called The Rest of the Story. Paul Harvey would tell a story but at a key point stop and say, “In a minute you will hear the rest of the story.” Then they…

I still love it.

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…

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…