“Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. He called out to them, ‘Friends, haven’t you any fish?’

‘No,’ they answered.

He said, ‘Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.’ When…

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1, NIV).

I’ve always found the words of this first verse in the Gospel of John to be interesting.

As a kid, it was one of the easier passages of Scripture to…

“On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight. There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting. Seated in a window was a…

“…they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense” (Luke 24:11, NIV).

When Mary Magdalene and the other women shared what they had witnessed on the first Easter morning, the disciples must have thought the women were out of their minds.

A couple of Scripture-quoting…

One of my favorite games to play as a kid was “King of the Mountain.”

While not one of my neighborhood’s knuckleheads was actual royalty, and the “mountain” was really just a small hill near my home in central Kansas, we would spend hours trekking up — and falling down…

“Samson said to the servant who held his hand, ‘Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them.’ Then Samson prayed to the LORD, ‘Sovereign LORD, remember me. …

“If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand…

“ ‘My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? …