With Jack Bailey
Scripture “Who can understand the human heart? There is nothing else so deceitful; it is too sick to be healed.” ~Jeremiah 17:9, GNT Quote We are mostly falsehood, duplicity and contradiction: We disguise ourselves from ourselves. ~Blaise Pascal When God created Adam, He gave him a soul or a heart. The heart is the seat…
Scripture Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? ~2 Corinthians 6:14, NLT Quote If the world was gray, there would be no sin. ~Ya’akov As a pastor, you long for and pray for unity. I often think about what could be…
Scripture Dear woman, why are you crying?” Jesus asked her. “Who are you looking for?” She thought he was the gardener. “Sir,” she said, “if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him.” ~John 20:15, NLT Quote “We may ignore, but we can…
Scripture To those who win the victory I will give the right to sit beside me on my throne, just as I have been victorious and now sit by my Father on his throne. Revelation 3:21, NIV Quote Only God can turn a mess into a message, a test into a testimony, a trial into…
Scripture “Let these false prophets tell their dreams, but let my true messengers faithfully proclaim my every word. There is a difference between straw and grain! ~Jeremiah 23:28, NLT Quote No one can read the gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such…
Scripture Make vows to the LORD your God, and keep them. Let everyone bring tribute to the Awesome One. ~Psalms 76:11, NLT Quote God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants His footstep in the sea and rides upon the storm. ~William Cowper The CEV translates ‘Awesome’ as fearsome. The Hebrew verb mō·rä’…
Scripture The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you. ~John 15:19, NLT Quote I am as weary of this world as this world is weary of…
Scripture “For Israel has forsaken me and turned this valley into a place of wickedness….And they have filled this place with the blood of innocent children.” ~Jeremiah 19:4, NLT Quote Government’s first duty is to protect people, not run their lives. ~Ronald Reagan I‘d like to change one word in Reagan’s quote: change ‘run’ to…
Scripture “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.” ~Matthew 23:39, NLT Quote Do not wish to be anything but what you are and be that with all your heart. ~Francis de Sales Last Sunday morning my message came…
Scripture Our LORD and our God, Bashan is a mighty mountain covered with peaks. Why is it jealous of Zion, the mountain You chose as Your home forever? ~Psalm 68:15-16, CEV Quote By small and simple things; great things are brought to pass. ~Russell Ballard Bashan is a mountain range located just East of the…