“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil […]. But I have this against...

“For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord...

“How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? […] My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and...

“But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called...

“He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love” (Song of Solomon 2:4). Song of Solomon is, quite frankly, a...

“Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!” (Psalm 107:1). Psalm 107 is, like many psalms, an...