With Jack Bailey
Scripture Listen rulers of Israel, surely you know what is right and yet you hate good and love evil. ~Micah 3:1, REB Quote The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with God. ~E. Stanley Jones A reprobate is a person who no longer distinguished right from wrong. John Calvin believed…
Scripture Therefore, the Lord says: “I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity. ~Micah 2:3, NIV Quote Pride always precedes a fall; it is a spiritual law and it is as real as the law of…
Scripture Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. ~Psalm 103:1, NIV Quote The transforming power of the gospel gets worked into our inner being when we learn to speak forcefully to our soul. ~Timothy Keller I just beginning to follow David’s practice of speaking to the soul. The Hebrew…
Scripture But You remain the same, and Your years will never end. ~Psalm 102:27, NIV Quote God never changes: He doesn’t need to change–He is perfect. ~Ya’akov I was visiting with a senior adult couple yesterday and they were down just a little. They had neighbors who they were very fond of and about three…
Scripture If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom. ~James 3:13, NLT Quote Science is organized knowledge–Wisdom is organized life. ~Immanuel Kant James makes a comparison between two kinds of wisdom: one is earthly, sensual and demonic and…
Scripture Every morning I will put to silence all the wicked of the land. ~Psalms 101:8, NIV Quote Evil people rely on the acquiescence of naive people to allow them to continue with their evil. ~Stuart Aken Considering all his accomplishments, David has to be considered the greatest of all the kings of Israel. Keep…
Scripture He REVIVES life in me. ~Psalms 23:3, Moffatt Quote Like a watch, the human spirit can run down. We lose our enthusiasm; we become less willing to attempt the difficult. We are crusaders no longer. ~Charles L. Allen Baptist are about the only ones I know that believe in carnal Christianity and some that…
Scripture “But since my people refuse to return to Me, they will return to Egypt and will be forced to serve Assyria. ~Hosea:11:5, NLT Quote “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~Vicktor Frankl As defined by the Oxford dictionary:…
Scripture Exalt the LORD our God, and bow down towards His holy mountain; for holy is the LORD our God. ~Psalm 99:9, REB Quote Holiness is not the way to Jesus–Jesus is the way to holiness. ~Ya’akov What does the word ‘holy’ bring to your mind: little old ladies in long dresses with their hair…
Scripture “Are you right to be angry?” ~Jonah 4:4, NIV Quote No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. ~C. S. Lewis Frank is a character in C.S. Lewis novel the GREAT DIVORCE. Frank is schizophrenic of sorts: at times he is big and at other times…