Romans 8:35-39 ESV “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “’For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’ “No, in all these things we … Continue reading Regarded as Sheep to be Slaughtered
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It is Good to Give Thanks
Psalms 92:1-4 ESV “It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night, to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre. For you, O Lord, have made … Continue reading It is Good to Give Thanks
Perseverance
An Original Work / March 11, 2022 Marching, marching to their chorus, Enemies who now abhor us. They are out now to destroy us, For they hate our Savior, Jesus. They are all in step with others, Friends and neighbors, sisters, brothers. Bent on evil, vermin plenty, In the year now two and twenty. Their … Continue reading Perseverance
We Ought to Live How?
2 Peter 3:11-13 ESV “Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will … Continue reading We Ought to Live How?
Money Changers in the Temple
John 2:14-17 ESV “In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And … Continue reading Money Changers in the Temple
Setting our Minds on the Things of God
Romans 8:1-8 ESV “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his … Continue reading Setting our Minds on the Things of God
Encouragement to Persevere
2 Corinthians 1:3-7 ESV “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by … Continue reading Encouragement to Persevere
Still Living as Slaves of Sin?
Romans 6:1-6 ESV “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried … Continue reading Still Living as Slaves of Sin?
Keeping the Lord’s Commandments
Deuteronomy 6:1-3 ESV “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by … Continue reading Keeping the Lord’s Commandments
Being Grieved by Various Trials
1 Peter 1:1-2 ESV “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, “To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: “May grace and peace … Continue reading Being Grieved by Various Trials
Walking Wounded 