A prayer for the night the bills are spread across the table — and what Psalm 23:1 actually says, from the Hebrew verb for running out to the manna arithmetic in Exodus 16.
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Religious Gifts for Women When You’re Not Religious Yourself
Shopping for religious gifts for women when you don’t share her faith? Your hesitation is the qualification. Four rules, what to write on the card, and the king Isaiah 45 says never knew God.
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Prayer for a Job: They Weren’t Late. Nobody Picked Them.
A prayer for a job, and the line in Matthew 20 nobody quotes: the men hired last had stood in the market all day. They were not late. Nobody picked them.
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Prayer for the First Day at a New Job: God Goes In First
Joshua 1:9 gets printed on leaving cards. It was first spoken to a man taking over from someone irreplaceable — and six separate voices repeated it to him.
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Unique Christian Gifts for a Baptism: Light, Then a Fight
Unique Christian gifts for a baptism that still work a year later: the word Hebrews uses for the newly baptized, three ideas, and what to write on the card.
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Do People in Heaven Watch Over Us? Waiting, Not Watching
Do people in heaven watch over us? Hebrews 12 is not a stadium of spectators, and one line in Hebrews 11 offers a better comfort than being watched over.
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Prayer When You’re Falsely Accused: The Psalm That Names Its Accuser
A prayer when falsely accused, plus what the 46-second version had no room for: Psalm 7 has the accuser named in its title, the Hebrew behind “my defence” is a shield rather than an argument, and the psalm never reports that David was cleared.
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Mother’s Day Christian Gifts for a Grieving Mom: What Jesus Gave His Mother
Mother’s Day Christian gifts for a grieving mom: what to give, what to write, and the detail in John 19 that shows what she actually needs.
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A Prayer for Hope When Yours Has Already Run Out
A prayer for hope for the day yours has run out. Lamentations 3 shows a man whose hope had perished – and the one small thing he did three verses later.
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Christian Gifts for Christmas Exchange: When You Drew a Name
Christian gifts for a Christmas exchange when you drew a near-stranger: the Bible’s one organised gift exchange, three rules that make it easy, and what to write on the card.