With Jack Bailey
Scripture You stiff-necked heathens! Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? But your fathers did and so do you! ~Acts 7:51, LNT Quote In God’s hands–Intended evil becomes eventual good. ~Max Lucado It seems that Stephen had been performing “signs and wonders” in the presence of Hellenistic Jews since it is said that he aroused…
Scripture Again I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, or the battle to the strong, or bread to the wise, or riches to the discerning, or favor to the skillful; rather, time and chance happen to all of them. ~Ecclesiastes 9:11, Holman Quote Merit is not always rewarded…
Scripture Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob. ~Psalms 114:7, NLT Quote There are no maverick molecules in the universe. ~R.C. Sproul The Jews sang Psalm 114 along with 113 before observing the Passover meal. Passover was their 4th of July and Easter all rolled into…
Scripture It is God alone who judges; He decides who will rise and who will fall. ~Psalms 75:7, NLT Quote “Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.” ~John Flavel Louis Berkhof defined providence as…
Scripture “It isn’t because this man sinned,” said Jesus. “It isn’t because his parents sinned. This happened so that God’s work could be shown in his life. ~John 9:3 Quote Everyone profits when people are more important than profit. ~Source Unknown For forty years, the blind man in John chapter 9 stumbled in the darkness.…
Scripture Suppose a person sacrifices one of his children to the god Molech. It does not matter whether that person is an Israelite or an outsider who lives in Israel. He must be put to death. ~Leviticus 20:2, NIrV Quote “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and…
Scripture The sun rose above Jacob as he passed by Peniel. He was limping because of his hip. ~Genesis 32:31, NIrV Quote Every believer has a spiritual handicap to remind us constantly of our need for His grace. ~Ya’akov Jacob lived by his wits for the first 40 years of his life but as he…
Scripture The believers who had been scattered preached the word everywhere they went. ~Acts 8:4, NIrV Quote Malice is a boomerang, it is apt to turn upon the projector. ~William Makepeace Thackeray Most of us understand the original definition of a “Backfire”; it is a mistimed explosion in the cylinder or exhaust of an engine. However,…