1 Peter 1:13 ESV “Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” How do we prepare our minds for action? What kind of action? This is kind of like getting ready for a hurricane to … Continue reading According to Each One’s Deeds

Galatians 2:20 ESV “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.” “I,” that means “me,” my flesh has … Continue reading I No Longer Live

Romans 10:13-15 ESV “For ‘everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’” “How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are … Continue reading A Disobedient and Contrary People

Romans 10:1-4 ESV “Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to … Continue reading Seeking to Establish Our own Righteousness

Hebrews 4:11-13 ESV “Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts … Continue reading Strive to Enter that Rest

Hebrews 4:1-7 ESV Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with … Continue reading If You Hear His Voice

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather … Continue reading Lovers of Pleasure or of God?

Ephesians 5:21 ESV “…submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.” We humble ourselves. We have servant's hearts and attitudes. We regard one another as more important than ourselves. We look not only to our own interests, but also to the interests of others. And we follow the example of Christ in his true … Continue reading Submitting to One Another

Ephesians 5:11-14 ESV “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, ‘Awake, O sleeper, … Continue reading Examining Our Lives

An Original Work / October 24, 2020 I had a choice between two roads – One was narrow, and one was broad, One was honest, and one a fraud, One of the devil, one of God. I had to choose which one to take – The road less traveled, will it do? Or should I … Continue reading The Road Less Traveled