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How our Father loves to bestow good gifts on His children!  (Matt 7:11; James 1:17)  Psalm 37 is a psalm of inheritance.  Notice how many times the word is mentioned.  This Psalm ties in with one of my other favorite Scriptures that promises us that for His chosen, God “works all things together for our [...]

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also”  –Matt. 6:21 “For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks”  –Matt. 12:34b Our conversation and our words show where our heart is and thus reflect where our treasure is. I hope I treasure Christ so much that my lips can’t help but speak about Him. “Whom [...]

“…reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching…” 2 Timothy 4:2 What Christian who speaks forth the word of God boldly has not been accused of being judgmental?  There is a vast difference between judgment and reproof, between judging someone’s heart and intentions and correcting them out of love for their souls.    Correction is not often perceived [...]

It’s never been about religion. Maybe you think that’s a brash statement. Please hear me out. That was my spontaneous response to an online post ranting on and on against religion. I had heard it all before. We’ve all heard it before: the much-parroted opinion that throughout human history religion has been the cause of [...]

Today Tory asked me what it was that made me really desire to pursue God. I thought about it for a minute and told him that I think I really started passionately pursuing God because I started having consistent times reading the Bible. The more I read, the more I saw who God is. And [...]

This week’s Liturgy of the Word focused on living out the Gospel, that is doing the commandments God entrusted us. The scripture readings can be found here in full, but as I use them, I will quote the bible that is currently available within BibleFox. I’ll start by breaking it down by reading. The first reading [...]

I do need an income in order to continue to work on Biblefox. I need to support myself, my wife, and my upcoming baby, and I need to live in such a way that I am not a burden on people, but I can give to people. At the same time I want to continue [...]

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. [...]

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. [...]

Probably my favorite chapter of the entire bible (although there are so many!) is Matthew 7… The whole thing. I like it because it has deep wisdom put in a simple form; that is, the secret to happiness spelled out in an almost tangible form. It also shows that Jesus had a little bit of situational humor in [...]

I think my favorite beatitude is “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they willl be filled” (Matthew 5:6). 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” So, our righteousness comes from Christ. [...]

I glanced over this passage the other day as I was working on Biblefox. My eye caught on the quote from the King of Egypt in verses 8-10:

8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph. 9 He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more [...]

Naturally, I have read these verses many times. In fact, I had to read a whole book about the Sermon on the Mount in seminary. But, somehow, it just dawned on me that these verses about clothing are NOT about trying to decide which shirt color goes with the best skirt color. Jesus is talking [...]

“Preach the Gospel, and if necessary use words.” St Francis. This was in the Essential 100 devotional for this week. I really have a problem with this cute saying that is commonly flung around our churches today like a frisbee. I don’t think it stacks up biblically (“Preach the Gospel, and don’t let your lifestyle contradict [...]

“You can throw it away…it’s just paper.” – Tsungai told me, as I finished photographing some of the Zim notes found around the house.  They are all just left randomly between books or tossed on shelves and end tables…never to be used again.  It’s as if they’re monopoly money. Throughout our time in Zimbabwe, our conversations [...]

This passage mentions several times that Yahweh was with Joseph. The passage reminds us that it wasn’t by Joseph’s own strength that he received such favor in Potiphar’s household, and later in Pharoah’s household, but it was by God’s strength. This is a good reminder, that our blessings and our accomplishments came by God’s strength, [...]