Verse – 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 […]

Verse – 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”? […]

Verse : 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 […]

Verse : Psalms 39:4-5

“O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah Psalms 39:4-5  

Verse: 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 […]

Illinois politics

Illinois voted to limit elected officials to 2 terms: 1 in office, 1 in jail.                         Some Days the www.grif.net hits the nail on the head. 🙂

Verse: 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 […]

Verse: 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 […]

Witnessing : Faith in power of God

1 Corinthians 2:2-6 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration  of the Spirit and of power, that your faith […]