Greed

Scripture “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.” ~Luke 12:15, NLT Quote Life is not measured by how much we accumulate, but how much we give. ~Corrie ten Boom Many people are building on sand or as Billy Graham says, “They are building on the wrong…

Ruling Verses Serving

Scripture You know that those foreigners who call themselves kings like to order their people around. And their great leaders have full power over the people they rule. But don’t act like them. If you want to be great, you must be the servant of all the others. ~Mark 10:42-43 Quote Authority is like soap and…

Deliver Us From Evil

Scripture Hear my voice O God…protect my life from fear of the enemy. Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the mob of evildoers. ~Psalm 64:12, Cloverdale Quote There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him, and bad when it turns away from Him.…

Worry And Anxiety

Scripture Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? ~Matthew 6:26-27, NLT Quote The happiest people in the world are those who…

Help Us LORD {adiuva nos Domine}

Scripture “Grant us Your help against the enemy, for vain is the help of man.” Psalm 60:11, Coverdale Quote “Success is moving from one failure to the next without loss of enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill David never lost a battle as a general leading his troops into combat, but while he was engaged in the north,…

Pleasing The Father

Scripture And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. ~Matthew 3:17, KJV Quote Our Heavenly Father honors faith, rewards humility and loves obedience. ~Ya’akov Most of us have a desire to please the Father but the principle of sin hinders us. As Paul confessed in…

The Eyes Speak

Scripture The Lord hates six things; in fact, seven are detestable to him: arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet eager to run to evil, a lying witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up trouble among brothers. ~Proverbs 6:16-19, CSB Quote The eyes are the widow of the soul.…

The Story of Beth

Scripture “I will never leave you or abandon you.” ~Hebrews 13:5, CEB Quote “The King of love my Shepherd is, whose goodness faileth never; I lack nothing since I am His and He is mine forever.” ~Henry William Baker I am in the process of reading my old blogs in hopes of saving those worth…

The Antidote to Fear

Scripture When I am afraid, I will trust in You. ~Psalm 56:3, CSB Quote Trust is God is the antidote to fear, because the reality of God is greater than the reality of the object that causes us to fear. ~John Goldingay My mother taught me Psalm 56:3 when I was a small boy. I think…

The Work Of Grace

Scripture We don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction that took place in Asia. We were completely overwhelmed—beyond our strength—so that we even despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who…