For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a […]

And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord? (Psalms 89:5-6) But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and […]

God standeth in the congregation of the mighty (Psalms 82:1a) he judgeth among the gods. How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. (Psalms […]

And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s […]

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. (Psalms 5:3) This morning as high clouds moved through eastern Washington we were blessed to observe an uncommon atmospheric condition, a series of halos and arcs around the sun. Photographed here are what […]

  But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. For he remembered that they were but flesh; A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. (Psalms 78:38-39) I exhort therefore, that, first […]

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. (I Peter 2:25) The sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: […]

And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments…thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; should we again break thy commandments (Ezra 9:10,13-14a) Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure […]

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain (Ecclesiastes 12:1-2) […]

The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. (Psalms 50:1-2) A couple of rising sun photos this morning. A front is moving into eastern WA this morning and bringing in a […]