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“One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my ...

June 22. Psalms 78:14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. The chosen people were afraid. They had to cross a barren wasteland, a desert, with no ...

The Indiana Fever’s 90-88 defeat to the New York Liberty on Saturday night produced several talking points. But perhaps the game’s most contentious moment was when Caitlin Clark was not called during ...

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a song and soon cherished as an anthem. In its 125th ...

Find Bible verses to write in a birthday card and prayers to bless their important day below: This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. - Psalm 118:24. May he grant you ...