With Jack Bailey
Scripture “Oh my father, bless me, too!” ~Genesis 27:38 Quote The one aim of the call of God is His satisfaction or pleasure. ~Oswald Chambers A part of the fall is the curse of sin and death but along with that is our vanity. We humans are vain. We are self-centered to the core. When…
Scripture When the messengers returned, they told Jacob, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is heading this way with four hundred men.” ~Genesis 32:6, CEV Quote Assumption is the mother of all mistakes. ~Eugene Lewis Fordsworthe What is the difference between assumption and presumption? The connotative distinction between these words is that presumptions are based more on…
Scripture I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Because you maintained a perpetual hatred and gave the Israelites over to the power of the sword in the time of their disaster. ~ Ezekiel 35:4-5 (CSB) Quote I don’t have time to hate those who hate me; I’m too busy loving…
Scripture You will be covered with shame and destroyed forever because of the violence done to your brother Jacob. Obadiah 10, CSB Quote “Roses are red and mud is brown, we rednecks party with the radio up and the tailgate down.” ~Si Robertson Cain is the father of the self-willed, Abraham is the father of…
Scripture What if the LORD had not been on our side when people attacked us? They would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger. ~Psalm 124:2-3, NLT Quote Every child of God has an omnipotent guardian, and God will sooner empty heaven of angels as to leave a saint unguarded. ~Charles H. Spurgeon Psalm 124…
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 The sun rose above Jacob as he passed by Peniel. He was limping because of his hip. ~Genesis 32:31, NIrV Quote Every believer has a spiritual handicap to remind us constantly of our need for His grace. ~Ya’akov Jacob lived by his wits for the first 40 years of his life but as he…
Scripture Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth. ~2 Timothy 2:15, HCSB Quote Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. ~Jerome Joe David gave us some guides for biblical interpretation last Sunday and they are excellent: Study the verse {2 Timothy…