With Jack Bailey
Scripture I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart. ~Psalm 101:2, NASB Quote Our contemporary culture is proficient at producing corrupt people who are skilled at lying, falsifying, distorting and covering the truth. ~Stephen Lawson Evolution, global warming [climate change], the right to privacy: what do these things have in common?…
Scripture God will turn the sins of evil people back on them. He will destroy them for their sins. The LORD our God will destroy them. ~Psalm 94:23, NLT Quote Those who reject the hand of God’s mercy {Christ} will not be delivered from the hand of His justice. ~Matthew Henry God is active in…
Scripture Yet they tested the Most High God, and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees, but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors; they twisted like a treacherous bow. ~Psalm 78:56-57, NRSV Quote The one thing we learn from history is that we do not learn anything from history. ~Hegel Wiersbe calls…
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 We do not see our emblems; there is no longer any prophet, and there is no one among us who knows how long. How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile Your name forever? Quote God’s wounds are better than Satan’s salves. ~John Trapp Few ordeals are more excruciating…
Scripture Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. ~Psalm 51:1-2, NRSV Quote The good news of Jesus Christ is that a full forgiveness of sin is offered for all who will…
Scripture Every one deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent. ~Jeremiah 9:5, NRSV Quote “Of all acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscience of none.” ~Thomas…
Scripture Why, O Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? ~Psalm 10:1, NRSV Quote The silence of God is often a problem for believers but this may be God’s way of teaching us to walk by faith. ~Alton H. McEachern There are times when God seems to…
Scripture Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is no one who does good. ~Psalm 14:1, NRSV Quote Sin is always folly and the height of folly is atheism. ~Charles H. Spurgeon The Hebrew wordʼayin is translated into three English words “there is no.” Ayin means…
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.…