Thank God For Romans Seven

Scripture For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been sold into bondage under sin. ~Romans 7:14, LSB Quote No one can achieve righteousness: we must embrace it as a gift from God. ~Craig Keener The ancient Rabbis taught that people were born with an evil impulse {yetzer hara} but…

Morality Verses Immorality

Scripture “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” ~Jeremiah 17:9, NLT Quote Learn all you can about your own heart, and when you have learned all you can, remember that you have seen but a few yards into a pit that is unfathomable. ~Robert…

The Mirror

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…

Who Needs A Doctor?

Scripture “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do.  I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent.” ~Luke 6:31-32, NLT Quote Apart from linguistic difficulty, the greatest barrier I have met is the almost total absence form the minds of my…

Our Disease

Scripture Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins. ~Ecclesiastes 7:20, NLT Quote Sin is the most terrible, the most devastating, disease in the universe. ~William Franklin Graham {Personal Peace, p.12} If you think everyone admires Billy Graham, think again. Some moron posted this on the internet…BillyGraham was a red-baiting, fear-mongering,…

The Law of The Harvest

Scripture Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. ~Galatians 6:7, NASB Quote We always reap after we sow, what we so, more than we sow and longer than we sowed. ~Source Unknown Our bible study lesson last Sunday was on sowing and reaping. The…

A Spiritual Virus

Scripture Sin has drained my strength; I am wasting away from within. ~Psalm 31:10, NLT Quote Sin is like a virus: it has invaded our body and drains our moral and spiritual strength. ~Billy Graham I passed a church sign the other day that read: “Sin is like a credit card: have fun now, pay later.”…

Chain Breaker

Scripture He led them from the darkness and deepest gloom; He snapped their chains. ~Psalm 107:14, NLT Quote There is power in the name of Jesus: To break every chain, break every chain, break every chain! ~Will Reagan I don’t really understand it, but the older I get, the more claustrophobic I become. I don’t like…

The Tale Of Two Sisters

Scripture “Son of man, once there were two sisters who were daughters of the same mother. They became prostitutes in Egypt. ~Ezekiel 23:2, NLT Quote The devil is a master at hiding the consequences of sin. ~Ya’akov Gambling is a tax on the poor and ignorant. People who gamble ignore the odds. Some of them are…

The Hard Way

Scripture Good understanding giveth favor: but the way of transgressors is hard. ~Proverbs 13:15, KJV Quote “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.” ~St. Augustine The Christian life is the high road which leads upward so it involves a climb and a struggle. As…