With Jack Bailey
Scripture I will establish over them One Shepherd, my servant David, and He will shepherd them. He will tend them Himself and will be their shepherd. ~ Ezekiel 34:23 (CSB) Quote You don’t realize that Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. ~Tim Keller Ezekiel 34 always convicts me…Woe to the…
Scripture So my people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Their mouths go on passionately, but their hearts pursue dishonest profit. ~ Ezekiel 33:31 (CSB) Quote We live in a culture of emotional weak people; everything, including the truth, has to be…
Scripture Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from inside the fish. ~Jonah 2:1, NLT Quote We don’t pray to get on with the business, prayer is the business. ~Jack Taylor Then Jonah prayed. He did not pray when the LORD gave him his assignment. He did not pray before boarding the ship for Gibraltar.…
Scripture “Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has appeared, but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” ~Matthew 11:11, CSB Quote The least in the Gospel stands on higher ground than the greatest under the law. ~Charles Spurgeon I’m currently reading Ezekiel…
Scripture The Ephraimite archers turned back on the day of battle. They did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his law. They forgot what he had done, the wondrous works he had shown them. ~ Psalms 78:9-11 (CSB) Quote “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ~George Santayana The tribe of Ephraim…
Scripture “Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves. ~ Matthew 10:16 (CSB) Quote “The most difficult thing to achieve in the CHRISTIAN LIFE is balance.” ~Calvin C. Inman I doubt if the disciples were comforted when Jesus said, I’m sending you out like…
Scripture “Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.” ~Ezekiel 28:2, CSB Quote Pride is the spiritual cancer that devours family, destroys relationships, and divides…
Scripture When evening came, they brought to him many who were demon-possessed. He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick, so that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: He himself took our weaknesses and carried our diseases. ~ Matthew 8:16-17 (CSB) Quote No one ever cared for…
Scripture You adulterous people. Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God. ~James 4:4, CSB Quote The world is wrong side up; it needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.…
Scripture For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor an angel, nor a spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all. ~Acts 23:8, NASB Quote The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion. ~Tacitus The Sadducees were the upper crust of Jewish society. They were religious to a point…