With Jack Bailey
Scripture Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. ~1 Peter 4:8, NIV Quote Love does not seek it’s own; it is not selfish and it always cast the other person is the best possible light. ~Timothy Keller No amount of human love can atone for sin so what…
Scripture For we know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. ~Romans 6:6, NIV Quote Sin not only pays in death, it holds us in bondage and only Christ can set us free.…
Scripture Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice. ~Proverbs 24:17, NIV Quote Gloating is the celebration of unrighteous anger. ~Timothy Keller Have you ever read a passage or verse and then thought to yourself, “I am innocent.” When I think of gloating, the image that comes…
Scripture Worthless now is the thing for which people toiled; nations wore themselves out for a mere nothing. ~Jeremiah 51:58, REB Quote Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. ~Solomon Jeremiah was some kind of prophet. Although he never sat foot in Babylon, he sent a letter by Currier…
Scripture For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God. ~Ephesians 2:8, NRSV Quote Everything is a gift. ~Ya’akov I didn’t get to finish my sermon last Sunday; it was too long so I left the third point out. A milk stool…
Scripture Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil. ~Ephesians 4:26-27, NRSV Quote The only way to be angry and not sin is to be angry with sin. ~Matthew Henry Anger is and of itself is not evil. Jesus…
Scripture He causes the clouds to rise over the earth.He sends the lightning with the rainand releases the wind from his storehouses. ~Jeremiah 51:16, NLT Quote Dark clouds of affliction and trails are but God’s vehicles of blessings sent to soften our hearts and make them fruitful and useful to Him. ~L.B. Cowman Sérgio Vieira de Mello…
Scripture Evildoers are snared by their own sin, but the righteous shout for joy and are glad. ~Proverbs 29:6, NIV Quote “Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small; Though with patience, He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.” ~Henry Wadsworth Lonefellow The Law of Retribution is summed up in…
Scripture He is like a stunted shrub in the desert, with no hope for the future. ~Jeremiah 17:6, TLB Quote Jesus was a Man of Sorrows; acquainted with our grief, but He was never hopeless. ~Ya’akov Sometimes we refer to people and situations as a “hopeless case,” and indeed it is so but can anything…
Scripture “Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.” ~Matthew 5:7, NRSV Quote Ministry will REVIVE the church and touch the community. ~Ya’akov Some would lead us to believe that everyone is aware of their spiritual hunger and are just waiting on us to tell them about Jesus. I’ve been in ministry 51 years…