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Pastor Jon Verwey

The human spirit can endure a sick body, but who can bear a crushed spirit? — Proverbs 18:14 (NLT)

I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. — Ephesians 3:16 (NLT) 

A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones. — Proverbs 14:30 (NLT)

Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up. — Proverbs 12:25 (NIV)

The wicked run away when no one is chasing them, but the godly are as bold as lions. — Proverbs 28:1 (NLT)

The wicked run away when no one is chasing them — Proverbs 28:1a (NLT)

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and rejoicing may end in grief. — Proverbs 14:13 (NIV)

A glad heart makes a happy face; a broken heart crushes the spirit. — Proverbs 15:13–14 (NLT)

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. — Proverbs 13:12 (NIV)

Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can share its joy. — Proverbs 14:10 (NIV)

People may be pure in their own eyes, but the Lord examines their motives. — Proverbs 16:2 (NLT)

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. — Proverbs 13:12 (NIV)

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. — Proverbs 13:12 (NIV)

…our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off, to be on the inside of some door which we have always seen from the outside, is no mere neurotic fancy, but the truest index of our real situation. ~C.S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory”

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree… — 1 Peter 2:24 (NIV84)

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” — Galatians 3:13 (NIV84)

 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? …My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me. — Psalm 22:1&14 (NIV84)