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“As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will...
(After viewing the leaf-strewn, wooded area in the back yard, a day after Thanksgiving) Near woods, unashamed, Regal trees above downed leaves, Years-old timber down. Too early to dream? Not to those who know green comes As sure as frost came. John’s new Heaven,^ near: The fallenness shouts...
(After viewing the leaf-strewn, wooded area in the back yard, a day after Thanksgiving) Near woods, unashamed, Regal trees over downed leaves, Years-old timber down. Too early to dream? Not to those who know green comes As sure as frost came. John’s new Heaven^, near: The fallenness shouts...
1 John 4:19 (NKJV) We loved Him because He first loved us. Jude 1:1-2 (ESV) 1…to those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: 2 May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Jude 1:21 (ESV) …keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord...
“All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet, so that...
“Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving; praying at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been imprisoned; that I may make it clear in the...
The Father sent the Son. The Father raised the Son. The Father even folded the cloth. Everything is finished. Rest. ️ It was an ordinary Sunday morning, yet one that led to a profound theological journey. As I sat in church today, the sermon’s outline, translated from Japanese to English...
“So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. Beyond all these...
The apostle Paul speaking: “For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void. For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of...
“But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to...
“I hate those who are double-minded, But I love Your law. You are my hiding place and my shield; I wait for Your word. Depart from me, evildoers, That I may observe the commandments of my God. Sustain me according to Your word, that I may live; And do not let me be ashamed of my hope.” (Psalm...
(suggestion: read Hebrews 4, which is about entering into God's Sabbath rest) Let me rest from all considerations Which come knocking on the door of peace. Sabbath Day reflects emancipation From the cares this world may bring. Breaking bread, op’ning the Word With the Brethren, and family...
“You are near, O Lord, And all Your commandments are truth. Of old I have known from Your testimonies That You have founded them forever.” (Psalm 119:151-152 NASB) I was part of the gatherings of the church from infancy on up. My parents were part of that same church fellowship all 86 years of...
Judges 7:4-7 (NKJV - bold text is mine) 4 But the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. Then it will be, that of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ the same shall go with you; and of whomever I say to...
“To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit; not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing. For, “The one who desires life, to love...
A Gospel song, written after reading these Scripture passages this morning... 2 Timothy 2:10 “ I endure everything for the sake of God’s chosen” (The Voice) 2 Timothy 2:15 “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of...
“Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord. “And coming to Him as to a living stone which has...
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“One Census. 70,000 Dead. Pride Kills.” (2 Samuel 24:15) Self-Reliance: David’s Census Cost 70,000 Lives—Yours? (2 Samuel 24) Self-reliance sounds strong. Yet Scripture exposes self-reliance as deadly pride. King David—God’s chosen, Spirit-filled leader—fell to self-reliance. His census...