The words are from Psalm 47. Listen to it all–KSH.

Discernment in Scripture is the skill that enables us to differentiate. It is the ability to see issues clearly. We desperately need to cultivate this spiritual skill that will enable us to know right from wrong. We must be prepared to distinguish light from darkness, truth from error, best from better, righteousness from unrighteousness, purity from defilement, and principles from pragmatics.

–Jay Stowell, Fan the Flame: Living Out Your First Love for Christ (Chicago: Moody, 1986), p.44

Almighty God, who didst give to thine apostles Philip and James grace and strength to bear witness to the truth: Grant that we, being mindful of their victory of faith, may glorify in life and death the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Loving God, as we seek to follow the examples of St Philip and St James in faithfulness, hear and answer our prayers as you see best for each of us. #Prayer #Easter #Saints pic.twitter.com/UaCoXDRplD

— Andrew Zihni (@andrew_zihni) May 1, 2021

O thou who sendest forth the light, createst the morning, and makest the sun to rise on the good and the evil: Enlighten the blindness of our minds with the knowledge of the truth; lift up the light of thy countenance upon us, that in thy light we may see light, and, at the last, in the light of grace the light of glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Androscoggin River Sunrise, Maine. pic.twitter.com/ospvce9cca

— Tracy Hogan (@HoganSOG) April 30, 2021

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

–Colossians 3:12-17

Last Sunrise of April 2021 pic.twitter.com/wku6EP03Pj

— Dee McCarthy (@stokerslodge) April 30, 2021