“In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:12 (NRSV) Alchemists for centuries have been looking for ways to “make gold”. This idea is one of mythology… of having the ability to take some common, plentiful element and to make it rare and precious… to make it gold! And this of course is why this simple little verse that Jesus offers in His sermon has become so powerful, it has the ability to take something tha

“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Eph. 3:20-21 (NKJV) As Paul addresses the redemptive work of God for humanity in Ephesians 3, he explains that in God’s own time, God sent Jesus Christ into the world to redeem humanity from our sins. And, even more, in spite of his unworthiness, God personall

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my a