Posts from 2024 (Page 2)

“God Is So Good” For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations. Psalm 100:5   A very popular hymn right now is entitled, The Goodness of God. It begins… I love You, Lord O h Your mercy never fails me All my days I’ve been held in Your hands From the moment that I wake up Until I lay my head Oh I will sing of the goodness of God All my…

“Come and hear, all who fear God, and I will tell of what He has done for my soul. I cried to Him with my mouth, and He was extolled with my tongue. If I regard wickedness in my heart, the Lord will not hear; but certainly God has heard; He has given heed to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer nor His lovingkindness from me.” (Psalm 66:16–20) We must remember…

Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. Psalm 119:105 God’s word gives us a clear view of the life to which God calls us. God wants His people to prosper and has promised true/ eternal blessings if we will abide in Him, and by His commandments. We do not need to wander down dark alleys of disillusionment and disappointment in which so many in our world grope. The Light of the World, Jesus…

We live in a world obsessed with labels/ name brands. Young and old alike have the notion that if their shirts, shoes, pants; yes, even their underwear, do not have a certain label, then they are not worth wearing. We live in a world where people are measured and evaluated based on such external things, rather than on the basis of personal identity and integrity. The older we get, the more these pursuits grow as we buy the “right” car…

In his book, When God Builds A Church, Bob Russell tells this story: A little over thirty years ago, the number one, drive-time, radio disk-jockey in Detroit was a woman – Liz Curtis. They called her “Motor City Mama.” She wasn’t exactly a modern “shock jock” on air, but her day to day life was so wild that Howard Stern once told her: “Liz, you’ve got to clean up your act.” In 1981, Liz moved to Louisville, Kentucky and a…

8 Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah. 9 Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie; In the balances they go up; They are together lighter than breath. 10 Do not trust in oppression And do not vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them. 11 Once God has spoken; Twice I have…

What a Difference You Make! In Ephesians 4, Paul discusses various ministries the grace of God entrust to Christians. Ministries such as evangelists, pastors and teachers. Vs. 16 says, “…from whom [Christ] the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.” The ministry of our Shepherds and Preachers are often more visible than…

Malachi 3:3 says: “He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver.” This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study. That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn’t mention…

Then I Said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.” 18 And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. So they said, “Let us rise up and build.” Then…

Earnest Shackleton and his men sailed for Antarctica on the very day that England declared war on Germany in WWI. At their first port of call the party sent word they would abandon their expedition and offered themselves and the ship to their country. But Shackleton received a cable from a man who could see the ultimate value of the venture even in the moment of a national struggle for survival. The message was a single word: “Proceed,” and it…

It was an emergency situation. At least it was for a 6-year-old Florida boy who felt like he needed to call 911 to report it. When the responding officer arrived, the little boy told him his emergency: he was lonely, and needed a friend. Officer White told him that he would be the boy’s friend, brought him a stuffed animal, and let him sit in the police car. Being lonely and needing a friend is a common occurrence. Knowing what…

This week our nation celebrates Freedom – Independence – the ability to live and worship freely. We cherish the word “Freedom”, yet we recognize that securing that Freedom and maintaining that Freedom has come at a great Price! Those patriots who fought to secure these Freedoms knew the great cost involved. And so, as they closed the Declaration of Independence, they included these words: And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine…