With Jack Bailey
Scripture Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. ~1 Peter 1:14-15, NLT Quote God has wired us in such a way that the more holy…
Scripture My soul is bereft {deprived of} of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is. ~Lamentations 3:17, ESV Quote Surely what everyone wants, absolutely everyone without exception is happiness. ~Augustine {My Confessions p.198} We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,…
Scripture The wicked will go down to the grave. This is the fate of all the nations who ignore God. ~Psalms 9:17, NLT Quote When nations or individuals live only for their pleasure, they begin to die morally and spiritually, oblivious to God’s will and His judgment. ~Billy Graham {WISDOM FOR THE DAY, p.192} It may…
Scripture I came to hate all my hard work here on earth, for I must leave to others everything I have earned. ~Ecclesiastes 2:18, NLT Quote “There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.” ~ Joseph Campbell There is no evil is having…
Scripture A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. Proverbs 15:13, NKJV Quote A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength. ~Solomon I’ve always understood the Proverbs to be random sayings on unrelated subjects but my thinking was flawed. The Proverbs…
Scripture Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you. ~Proverbs 2:11 Quote To make right decisions; your decisions must make things right. ~Ya’akov Life is filled with choices. Jesus Himself taught that there are two paths or roads–one is narrow and the other is very broad. The narrow path is the higher, virtuous, noble…
Scripture How blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in His ways. ~Psalm 128:1, NASB Quote “If I had to die like an animal and there be no hereafter, I would still choose to be a Christian, for of all lives that can be lived, there is none that can compare with this.”…