With Jack Bailey
Scripture The Lord lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let the God of my salvation be exalted. ~Psalms 18:46, NKJV Quote God often uses our deepest pain as a launching pad for our most heart felt praise. ~Source Unknown You can’t prepare for a day like yesterday. While there was anxiety at the Bailey’s, there was…
Scripture “Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks.” ~Luke 12:35-36, NRSV Quote Prepare and prevent or you’ll repair and repent. ~Anonymous When we…
Scripture From YOU let my vindication come; let Your eyes see what is right. Psalm 17:2, NRSV Quote Pride’s focus is on ‘who is right.’ Humility’s focus is on ‘what is right.’ ~Ezra T. Benson It is entirely possible for someone to think that their cause is just when it is not. There have been…
Scripture There once was a man named Job who lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless—a man of complete integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil. ~Job 1:1, NLT Quote Don’t assume that you know it all. Run to God! Run from evil! ~Solomon {Proverbs 3:7, MSG} In fear healthy? In some…
Scripture There is a sin that is mortal; I do not say that you should pray about that. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is a sin that is not mortal. ~I John 5:15-16, NRSV Quote Sin is your murderer: kill it before it kills you. ~Richard Baxter The Greek word translated ‘mortal’ in the…
Scripture “For where two or three are gathered in My name, I am there among them.” ~Matthew 18:20, NRSV Quote Only in the act of praise and worship can a person learn to believe in the goodness and greatness of God. ~C.S. Lewis Have you ever been so tired or maybe you just did not…
Scripture Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. ~John 21:3, NRSV Quote Recreation is refreshment of strength and spirits after work by means of refreshment or diversion. ~Merriam Webster There is a…
Scripture They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and whoever is not from God does not listen to us. ~I John 4:5-6, NRSV Quote Success is the ability to go from failure to…
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.…
Scripture For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.”…