Archive: Scripture
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Apr 30, 2012
No CommentsVerse – Jonah 2:8 Vain Idols
Jonah 2:8 Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love. The concept of idols in our lives focus on how how PROUD we are in our attitude towards God. In a relationship that we should embrace with much humility we attack God by belittling His salvation with our self righteous...
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Apr 27, 2012
No CommentsSimple prayer
It was stressful, the day was crazy, time was short lots to do before eye surgery. We ran around town and got things taken care of and as we pulled up to the hospital I asked, “Would you like me to pray with you?” The answer “Yes” I dove into a prayer that had been...
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Feb 05, 2012
No CommentsCasting Cares 1 Peter 5:7-8
Sometimes a verse is all you need. Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour 1 Peter...
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Oct 10, 2011
No CommentsVerse – Psalm 71
For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you. Psalms 71:5-6...
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Sep 22, 2011
No CommentsVerse – Romans 5:1
..since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1 Can you say you have peace with God? I look out on my friends and this world around me and I have to say I don’t see the peace that they claim they have. Our lives...
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Sep 20, 2011
No CommentsVerse – Psalm 51:6-7
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Psalms 51:6-7 We KNOW that our hearts are deceitful & incurable (Jer 17:9) but what is this “secret heart”?...
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Sep 19, 2011
No CommentsVerse : Psalms 50:2-3
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest. Psalms 50:2-3 I love how the Psalm speaks to the reader, clear and reliable judgment of God comes from the very nature around us, even the...
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Aug 17, 2011
No CommentsVerse: 1 Timothy 6:20-21
Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. 1 Timothy 6:20-21 In this final instruction in 1st Timothy there is clear instructions to avoid the thinking of the “rich” in earthly possessions. One of the discussions I most often have with unChristian...
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Aug 12, 2011
No CommentsVerse: Ephesians 3:11-13
This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. Ephesians 3:11-12 We are to have boldness as we approach God… Boldness: not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or...
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Aug 10, 2011
No CommentsVerse: Colossians 3:16-17
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through...
