Celebrating The Promotion

  Scripture Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints. ~Psalm 116:15, NKJV Quote To live is Christ, to die is a promotion. ~Ya’akov I grew up on the King James and most of the verses I memorized are in the King James version so naturally, I reverted by to the AV…

Working With A Net

Scripture If you make the LORD your refuge, if you make the Most High your shelter,  no evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your home.  ~Psalm 91:9-10, NLT Quote God’s servants are immortal until their work on earth is done. ~Warren W. Wiersbe Psalm 91 is known as the Soldiers Psalm because…

An Eternal Perspective

Scripture  Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth. My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; He is mine forever.  ~Psalm 73:25-26, NLT Quote It is not possible for a person to see and rely on the eternal…

Our Awesome Warrior King

Scripture Praise the Lord, God our Savior, who helps us every day. Our God is a God who saves us; the Lord God saves us from death.  ~Psalms 68:19-20, NCV Quote Monarchy in the best form of government if you have a perfect King. ~Ya’akov Psalm 68 in a hymn of triumph. Some think David wrote…

Heavenly Hope

Scripture Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. ~John 14:27, NIV Quote Death can still terrify us, but the more we know about Jesus, the more death’s power fades. ~Erwin…

Peace Be With You

Scripture That Sunday evening the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! “Peace be with you,” he said. ~John 20:19, NLT Quote “To go back is nothing but death: to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it.…

Worldliness

Scripture “The people of Israel will no longer trust in Egypt. Instead, Egypt will remind them of how they sinned when they turned to it for help. Then they will know that I am the LORD and King.” ~Ezekiel 29:16, NIRV Quote Trust no one or no thing that makes light of Jesus Christ or…

The Fall Of Babylon

Scripture In Babylon the high officials were having a feast. They were eating and drinking, when someone shouted, “Officers, take your places! Grab your shields.” ~Isaiah 21:5, CEV Quote How fragile is life! How quickly everything can change. ~N.E. Turner Babylon has a figurative meaning in scripture; sometimes it is a reference to the world system that is in rebellion…

She Lives

Scripture They laughed at Him, knowing that she was dead. ~Luke 8:53, NIV Quote Faith is not about everything turning out OK; faith is being OK no matter how things turn out. ~Source Unknown The folks who laughed at Jesus were professional mourners; they were not strangers to death. They knew when a person’s breath…

A Time Is Coming

Scripture “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?” ~Luke 24:38, NIV Quote Expectation is the root of all heartache. ~William Shakespeare Luke 24 begins with the grief, sorrow, doubt, fear and the troubled hearts of the disciples following the death of Jesus. Two disciples are walking on the road to…