With Jack Bailey
Scripture And now, in my old age, don’t set me aside. Don’t abandon me when my strength is failing. ~Psalm 71:9, NLT Quote It is not that I have more patience as I grow older; it is that I am too tired to respond. ~Ya’akov June and I went to Mobile last week for Soy’s COLS.…
Scripture And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. ~Mark 15:37-38, ESV Quote Jesus made a way to the FATHER. Jesus Himself is the WAY. ~Ya’akov Before Christ atoning death at Calvary, we had to approach God through a…
Scripture No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. ~1John 3:9, ESV Quote The teachings of the scriptures and the experience of the greatest saints denies the doctrine of sinless perfection. ~Martyn Lloyd Jones…
Scripture For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. ~Romans 7:22, NKJV Quote The devil loves sin. It is his nature to take pleasure in sin and in tempting others to sin. ~Martyn Lloyd Jones How simple is the quote above? I don’t think any true believer will take issue…
Scripture Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” And with those words he breathed his last. ~Luke 23:46, NLT Quote It is not possible for mortals to comprehend the splendor of Jesus love. ~Calvin Miller We mentioned yesterday that Mary refused to allow her Son to die alone. It was a horrible…
Scripture Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother….When Jesus saw His mother there, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to her, “Woman, here is your son.” ~John 19:25-26, NIV Quote Suffering can forge deep friendships. ~Ya’akov In reading Calvin Miller’s daily devotion: his thoughts provoked my thoughts and within seconds…
Scripture “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For the days are coming when they will say, ‘Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.’ ~Luke 23:28-29, NLT Quote The true believer will…
Scripture They stripped Him {Jesus} and put a scarlet robe on Him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand. Then they knelt in front of Him and mocked Him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. They spit on Him, and took…
Scripture If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him! ~Luke 11:13, ESV Quote Everything is grace, but still it must be kept in mind that God is pleased to work by means. ~John…
Scripture Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ~1John 2:15, ESV Quote There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity today– a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice — which costs nothing, and is…