Psalm 96:11-12 CEB 11 Let heaven celebrate! Let the earth rejoice!    Let the sea and everything in it roar!12     Let the countryside and everything in it celebrate!    Then all the trees of the forest too        will shout out joyfully!

Petroglyphs at the Petrified Forest National Park, AZ Luke 19:39-40 ISV Some of the Pharisees in the crowd told Jesus, “Teacher, tell your disciples to be quiet.” He replied, “I tell you, if they were quiet, the stones would cry out!” There are tens of thousands of petroglyphs at the Petrified Forest National Park, AZ….

Hindman Barn, Camp Polk Preserve, Sisters, OR Matthew 6:19-21 GNT Do not store up riches for yourselves here on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and robbers break in and steal. Instead, store up riches for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and robbers cannot break in and steal. For your heart will always…

Hebrews 4:12 GNT The word of God is alive and active, sharper than any double-edged sword. It cuts all the way through, to where soul and spirit meet, to where joints and marrow come together. It judges the desires and thoughts of the heart.

Mt. Rushmore, SD 2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So often we celebrate July 4, 1776, as Independence Day, and forget that a war raged until September 3, 1783. After the Treaty of Paris, what was next for this fledgling…

Before Jesus asks us to bear fruit, He wants us to love. Without love, the fruit we bear is not authentic – it’s just works for the sake of works. Therefore, is it even fruit?