Tag Archives: Bible

Body – It Is Limited

 Positive Potential In Christ Psalm 40:6-8; Romans 12:1 Merriwether Lewis, celebrating his thirty-first birthday, confided in his diary a disappointment in not using his life to a greater advantage. He had spent too many hours indolently wasting time he should have … Continue reading →

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Common Sense

COMMON SENSE, GOOD JUDGMENT AND WISDOM?? When was the last time you were witness to common sense? Or when someone demonstrated the use of, common sense? When was the last time you heard the statement, “Now that makes (good) sense,” … Continue reading →

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Sunrise Prayers

Here is a simple but poignant poem from a while back sent in email circulations. If anyone knows the Author, please let me know so that I may give them proper and deserved credit. This morning when I wakened And … Continue reading →

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Collateral Damage

*This is a very long lesson and though I could split it up, I would rather not due to its importance. However, if you would prefer to read or study this offline, you can download a copy of this lesson … Continue reading →

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Bible – No Alterations to Truth

The Bible Has Never Changed Proverbs 119:152; 2 Peter 1:16 All speeches on the floor of Congress or in committee meetings become part of the Congressional Record. But you can’t always be sure that what was originally spoken or decided … Continue reading →

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Bible English (Language)

Dear Fellow Brothers, Sisters and Blogger Friends; This is something that I believe the Lord has placed upon my heart since long before the Hurricane Katrina disaster and 9-11. I just haven’t really addressed it and it is over this … Continue reading →

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Honesty, Subject To Conditions

To Harm for Gain Proverbs 19:9; John 8:44 The 1828 presidential election campaign seethed with heated, hateful innuendoes. President John Quincy Adams was the bull’s-eye. After the election, which Martin van Buren won, the new president admitted Adams’s absolute integrity. … Continue reading →

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This IS the Day the Lord Has Made!

I hope that everyone had a great and wonderful weekend celebrating the 4th of July. I don’t want to undermine the importance of this great American tradition, but I want to share with you all the reasons we can celebrate … Continue reading →

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Give Me Liberty, or Give Me . . . . Part Two

“But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.” –Romans 7:6. Praise the Lord! The … Continue reading →

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Give Me Liberty, or Give Me . . . . Part One

Choices, choices, choices. In America we pride ourselves on the number of choices we have and the freedom we have to make them. The truth of the matter is, this is just a myth. The freedom to choose was given … Continue reading →

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I Love You Lord

I love you Lord; you are my Lord, My Saviour, and my friend, You are my beginning and my end, You set my feet upon a rock and I know, Along your path I must go, You fill my life … Continue reading →

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Just a Short Something to Contemplate . . . . .

This has been on my mind for a bit and I plan to do a study that is a little more in depth, but for now . . . . . In our society, we’re witnessing the decline of conscience. … Continue reading →

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I Believe – I KNOW

This is a condensed version of something I taught a few years ago and I happened across it today and realized, it was something that seems to be even more relevant in this day and time of not only my country, … Continue reading →

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Questions – Raised by Adversity

Questions Psalm13:1-2; John 1:14 A confirmed bachelor, C. S. Lewis married late in life only to find love doomed when his wife was stricken with cancer. He plummeted into despair following her death, raging against God about whom he had … Continue reading →

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Don’t Stop Praying and Don’t Lose Heart!

Have you ever felt discouraged and/or wondered if you were really accomplishing anything? Have you ever sometimes thought to yourself, “If I only had a ministry like so and so. Then, I would do great things for the Lord.” Be … Continue reading →

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A Word of Encouragement

I want to take a little time to get personal and share with you some things that I have learned through experience and time and especially the last couple of years working with so many wonderful people on the internet. … Continue reading →

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Blessedness of Children

Children Bring Joy Psalms 127:3-5, Mark 9:36-37 John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson pitying James Madison’s childlessness. As many fathers before and since have said, Adams noted that while children often cost parents grief, anxiety, and even vexation, their very … Continue reading →

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