It’s Christmastime all over the world,But what does that mean exactly? Shopping and presents and idols galore?Never yet satisfied. Always want more? Busily, hurriedly, racing for time?Gotta have this gift, and nothing to find? Santa and reindeer now fly through the air,Packing their presents, now done with a flair? Children all googled-eyed, caught by it … Continue reading It’s Christmastime
Encouragement
The Glory Due His Name
“Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;bring an offering, and come into his courts!Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness;tremble before him, all the earth!” (Psalms 96:7-9 ESV) Reading this takes me back to Romans 1:18-32. There it … Continue reading The Glory Due His Name
If We Claim That..
“This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he … Continue reading If We Claim That..
He’s Seeking Someone to Devour
“Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has … Continue reading He’s Seeking Someone to Devour
Death
When death comes a knocking on your door,Will you be ready to meet your Lord?Have you repented of all your sins?Have you made Jesus your Lord within? Or are you still living your life for self,While you put Jesus up on the shelf?Is your life consumed with pleasing you?Fulfilling your lusts is what you do? … Continue reading Death
For He is Our God
“Oh come, let us worship and bow down;let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!For he is our God,and we are the people of his pasture,and the sheep of his hand.Today, if you hear his voice,do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,when your fathers put me … Continue reading For He is Our God
A Total Life Change
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but … Continue reading A Total Life Change
Refuse the Counsel of the Wicked
“Blessed is the manwho walks not in the counsel of the wicked,nor stands in the way of sinners,nor sits in the seat of scoffers;but his delight is in the law of the Lord,and on his law he meditates day and night.He is like a treeplanted by streams of waterthat yields its fruit in its season,and … Continue reading Refuse the Counsel of the Wicked
Are We Praying for One Another?
Jesus Christ was about ready to be put to death on a cross in order to put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded faith in him, we might die with him to sin and now live to him and to his righteousness in walks of surrender and obedience to him and … Continue reading Are We Praying for One Another?
Run With It 