My dear friend Fred T. Entered the life eternal in this new year. I sure do miss him. I wonder as I wander…On our last day…What will we say? Will we say I love you. Will we say I forgive you. Will we say do you forgive me? Can you say it? Can you […]
“So SHALL my word be that goes out from my mouth; it SHALL NOT return to me empty, but it SHALL accomplish that which I purpose, and SHALL succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11 Isaiah prophetically states the importance of the word of God. Shall means it is imperative and […]
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.” John 10:27-28 My former Eli Lilly associate, Charlie Duncan, served 38 months in North Africa and Europe as a Captain of a […]
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Gal 2:20 Paul gets the “Big Picture!” 1. Paul was […]
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Rom 5:8 I read recently where a university offered an 8th grade kid a football scholarship effective when he graduates high school. That is what Christ did for us; He died for our sins when we […]
Most Christians say they want to know God better. The question is, “What are we doing to know God better?” We can never know everything about God. However, we have a long way to go to get to know what God wants us to know about Him. How do we know God better: 1. Accept […]
“He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; […]
This from my sanctified friend Mary R. From Ludington, Mi. and Indianapolis, In. … …“And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’ And he replied: ‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand […]
“Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life. “ 1John 2:24-25 The Apostle John wrote 1 John, 2 John, and […]
“And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” Luke 9:23 Jesus laid out the conditions to be a follower. This is no place for prima-donnas or privileged. Jesus gave 3 qualifiers; 1. Following Jesus requires self- denial. It is about others! […]