With Jack Bailey
Scripture The pastors who lead the church well should be paid well. They should receive double honor for faithfully preaching and teaching the revelation of the Word of God. ~1 Timothy 5:17, TPT Quote The more vague and indefinite our preaching, the more comfortable the people sitting in the pew. ~Martyn Lloyd Jones {modified} Jesus…
Scripture Your lives are like salt among the people. But if you, like salt, become bland, how can your ‘saltiness’ be restored? Flavorless salt is good for nothing and will be thrown out and trampled on by others. ~Matthew 5:13, TPT Quote It is due to our failure in deportment, conduct and witness that the…
Scripture I said to Yahweh, “You are my Maker and my Master. Any good thing You find in me has come from You.” ~Psalm 16:2, TPT Quote Unless you learn to receive, the Christ life will be impossible for you. ~Calvin Miller I love the Psalms and I like David’s theology. Our Heavenly Father is the supreme…
Scripture For we have a magnificent King-Priest, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who rose into the heavenly realm for us, and now sympathizes with us in our frailty. ~Hebrews 4:14, TPT Quote Our sin can darken the awareness of God’s love, but they can never darken the reality of His love. ~Dana Ortlund I…
Scripture “Is not My word like a fire?” says the LORD, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? ~Jeremiah 23:29, NKJV Quote There is no greater vanity than pretending to be humble. ~Ya’akov When I went to Grace Point, I thought I would be there for a few months at most…
Scripture And so the Lord says, “These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote. ~ Isaiah 29:13, NLT Quote Real people never pretend to be perfect, and people who pretend to be perfect are never real.…
Scripture For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. ~Ephesians 2:10, NLT Quote There is not one square inch in the whole domain of our existence over which Christ does not cry “Mine!” ~Abraham Kuyper Do your…
Scripture But the Pharisees were disturbed by this and said to each other, “We won’t be able to stop this. The whole world is going to run after Him.” ~John 12:19, TPT Quote “I’d rather rule in hell as to serve in heaven.” ~Satan {John Milton} I am reading the gospel of John is the…
Scripture If this is how you intend to treat me, just go ahead and kill me. Do me a favor and spare me this misery! ~Numbers 11:15, NLT Quote There can be life without pain, but no pain without some kind of life. ~Augustine Every now and then I turn to Psalm 55 and read…
Scripture But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong. ~Job 2:10, NLT Quote “We can ignore pleasure, but pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures,…