Jude 1:3-4 ESV “Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, … Continue reading Who Pervert the Grace of God
With Modesty and Self-Control
Titus 2:3-5 ESV “Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word … Continue reading With Modesty and Self-Control
What Accords with Sound Doctrine
Titus 2:1 ESV “But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.” What is “sound doctrine”? Sound means whole, healthy, pure, and uncorrupted. And doctrine is Christian teaching (instruction) that is to be applied to our lives as is necessary for our walks of faith in Jesus Christ in holiness and righteousness and in … Continue reading What Accords with Sound Doctrine
Are Your Pleas for Mercy Genuine?
Psalms 143:1-4 ESV “Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness! Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you. “For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has … Continue reading Are Your Pleas for Mercy Genuine?
What are You Learning?
No Longer Walk this Way Ephesians 4:17-19 ESV “Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to … Continue reading What are You Learning?
The 7 Stages of Hospital Treatments
Before I begin this, I just want to say that I am sad for all people who are ill, who are suffering, and who have lost loved ones to death as a result of all viral infections and any other diseases, illnesses, disabilities, and/or injuries. And I also grieve for those whose loved ones are … Continue reading The 7 Stages of Hospital Treatments
If You Continue in the Faith
He has Delivered Us Colossians 1:13-14 ESV “He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” The reason that Jesus Christ gave his life for us on that cross was to rescue (deliver) us out from … Continue reading If You Continue in the Faith
Be an Encourager Every Day
Hebrews 3:12-13 ESV “Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called ‘today,’ that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” When we believe in … Continue reading Be an Encourager Every Day
Loving Jesus, Obeying His Word
John 14:21-24 ESV “’Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.’ Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, ‘Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and … Continue reading Loving Jesus, Obeying His Word
Chaos, Chaos
Yesterday the Lord gave me a poem to write which describes the condition of our world, our nations and their leaders, and the modern church of today and its leaders. We live in an age of much deception and corruption from the top down. So, we need to pray for godly wisdom so that we … Continue reading Chaos, Chaos
Run With It 