With Jack Bailey
Scripture Yet now He {God} has reconciled you to Himself through the death of Christ in His physical body. As a result, He {God} has brought you into His own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before Him without a single fault. ~Colossians 1:22, NLT Quote The LORD’s assessment of who…
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…
Scripture The younger son told his father, ‘I want my share of your estate now before you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons. ~Luke 15:12, NLT Quote I was greedy for another persons loss. ~Augustine {My Confessions, Book II, 9.17} In his youth Augustine ran with a company of…
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…
Scripture “Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. ~Isaiah 45:22, NKJV Quote We overcome the absence by the presence of the opposite. ~Jonathan Cahn Salvation, at least in the present, is not the absence of sin, it is the presence of God.…
Scripture If we claim to be already free from sin, we lead ourselves astray and the truth has no place in our hearts. ~I John 1:8, Weymouth Quote The only way to live above sin in this world is to rent an apartment over a honky-tonk. ~Bob Harrington Our salvation involves all three tenses: past,…
Scripture Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart; I am pure and free from sin”? ~Proverbs 20:9, NLT Quote A hungry dog had rather part with a T-bone steak than an unregenerate man part with his sin. ~Ray dis Comfort Solomon said, Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins [Ecclesiastes…
Scripture The hopes of the godly result in happiness, but the expectations of the wicked come to nothing. ~Proverbs 10:28, NLT Quote A life lived without Christ will end in futility ~Timothy Keller You’ve heard me say that SIN IS STUPID but today I offer an new adjective; SIN IS ABSURD. I looked up the…
Scripture I hold fast to your statutes, Lord; do not let me be put to shame…Take away the disgrace I dread, for your laws are good. ~Psalm 119:31,39, NIV Quote I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much toward preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices. ~Clyde…
Scripture If you obey Me, we will walk together, but if you are wicked, you will stumble. ~Hosea 14:9, CEV Quote There is no immunity from the consequences of sin: retribution will come to one and all without fail. ~Hosea Ballou Hosea was a prophet to the Northern Kingdom, a contemporary to Isaiah who was…