Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
Excellence
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. Hebrews 5:14 ESV We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not a single act, but a habit. Aristotle (Nicomachean...
Dispatched
Live prudently and with discretion. Behave wisely in your relations with others. Let your speech at all times be seasoned, as it were, with salt. Colossians 4:5-6 Adapted We are dispatched into the world each day to be a witness and a voice, where being a witness is...
More Than Gold
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than fine gold. By them Your servant is warned, and in keeping them there is great reward. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O...
Assurance of Pardon
Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. Luke 24:46–47 ESV Prayer: Dear God, I cast myself at...
Falling Short Of The Glory Of God
We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ...
There Is Time Only For Obedience
When God was finished talking with Abraham about all of this, He left and Abraham went home. On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him....
Prayer For Illumination
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your...
Justified And Secure
Everything that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I certainly will not cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that of everything that...
Prayer On The Lord’s Day Morning
Our Father who art in Heaven,hallowed be Your name;Your Kingdom come;Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.Give us this day our daily bread.And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.For Thine...
The Foot Of The Cross
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus, because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:1-2 TLB CSB There's room for us all at the foot of the cross, there perfect love paid...
Fear Not
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23:4 NKJV "When I was diagnosed with cancer, my fear translated itself into a fixation on survival rates. The odds...
Trials and Temptations
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:2-4 NIV...
Steer Clear
"Leave them alone, they are blind guides of blind people. And if a person who is blind guides another who is blind, both will fall into a ditch.” Jesus, Matthew 15:14 NASB, Adapted Stop letting people who are not obeying God give you directions in life.
Willingness To Forgive
Be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32 NASB Perhaps the greatest demonstration of my comprehension of the Gospel is my willingness to forgive.
The Greatest Sinner
Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners - of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an...
But God
You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people. Genesis 50:20 Here Joseph tells his brothers that despite their evil actions, God has used it for good. This is one of the most...
The Iniquity Of Us All
We turned our backs on Him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses He carried; it was our sorrows that weighed Him down. And we thought His troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for His own sins! But He was...
Grace Over Law
Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. Colossians 3:13 NLT In our disagreements with others we have only our God given rights. Such rights as are deemed granted by...
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