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Last Sunday, we read of God’s covenant with Noah and the rest of creation, symbolized by a “bow in the clouds.”

From where I'm sitting in 2021, it seems like maybe they are.

Mainline Christians have often distorted this passage from Matthew.

Elisha is unsure of himself at first.

Unlike Psalm 150, which praises God with abandon just because, our psalmist of the day cites some reasons.