With Jack Bailey
Scripture Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the abundance of Your compassion blot out my transgressions. ~Psalm 51:1, LSB Quote David was further along spiritually the most New Testament believers. ~Martyn Lloyd Jones When I read the above quote in Martyn Lloyd Jones devotional, I wrote in the margin,…
Scripture By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. ~Hebrews 10:20, NLT Quote Consider the blessed Son of God who came down to this lower world, lived among us, died for us so as to open the kingdom of heaven to all believers. ~Henry Scougal I…
Scripture You must love the Lord your God with all your heart…This is the first and greatest commandment. The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ~Matthew 22:37-39, NLT Quote The longer I live, the more I am convinced–these two commands sum up the Christian life. ~Ya’akov How do we excite or awaken the…
Scripture Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. ~I John 2:15, NLT Quote Our love for the world, and our love for God, are like the scales of a balance: as one falls, the…
Scripture For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he looked at himself and has gone away, he immediately forgot what kind of person he was. ~James 1:23-24, LSB Quote Most people have a…
Scripture Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.” Matthew 16:24, NASB Quote Christ died to save us, not from suffering, but from ourselves; not from injustice, far less from justice, but from being unjust. He died that…