Connecting with Christ with Total Abandonment
Connecting with Christ with Total Abandonment To be a true follower of Christ as Lord, there must be an exclusive abandonment of everything...
Connecting with Christ with Total Abandonment To be a true follower of Christ as Lord, there must be an exclusive abandonment of everything...
Far and Near Christ is far above all things, for all things were created by Him and through Him. God in every extent, far and wide gives bre...
A prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving Ever Thankful for You, Oh Lord! Ever Thankful for You, Oh Lord! Thank you, that I dwell in the shelter o...
Easter brings us a living hope … “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to ...
Grace poured out ... in a familiar garden, He cried out, desperately, for the passing of this course before him, yet He humbly forfeited his...
Ever Thankful for You, Oh Lord! (A Psalm 91 Prayer – Congregational Version) Thank you, that we dwell in the shelter of You, God Most High a...
The story of the “Prodigal Son” in the Bible represents the awful rebellious, self-centered and selfish nature present in all humanity when ...
“To give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise ...
“But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own s...
“Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since...
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope th...
He is the truth ... Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have put asid...
He is there ... “For by grace are ye saved through faith …” (Ephesians 2:8; KJ21). For centuries … parents, poets, politicians, philosophers...
All persons throughout the earth are alive, if they have life in them. The life in each person alive must repeatedly breathe in oxygen for t...
And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit (English Standard Version, Matthew 27:50). There are not enough words ...
“Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in al...
“God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy” (Matthew 5:7, NLT). You and I are completely undeserving of the great mer...
A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench; He will bring forth justice for truth.
“But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high! I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him wi...
He comes for everyone. “You know the generous grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that...
Gates are interesting objects. They can be ornate or simple. They can be functional or decorative. They can be massive or flimsy. They can b...
In the garden ... "And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed, saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove t...
As we come mid-week into the events of the Holy Week of Easter, we find a cluster of failings on the part of groups and individuals. Those e...
Our Humble King On the next day many people who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of ...
Connecting with Christ ... Longsuffering and liberating, overcoming and overreaching, valiant and vigilant, and extravagant and eternal are ...
Christ gave all ... For all that He was, He revealed in the flesh. All that He revealed in the flesh, He redeemed in His death. He victorio...
“Thou shalt not murder” (Exodus 20:13, NKJV) Of all the commandments, the commandment to not take a human life is one of the easiest command...
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8, KJ21). The Commandment regarding the Sabbath is clear and concise in its tone, con...
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth with a measure ...
Wenceslaus Hollar, Jesus on the Mount of Olives, Print, NGO Image, National Gallery of Art, Public Domain When He arrived at the place, He s...
“For by grace are ye saved through faith …" (Ephesians 2:8, KJ21). For centuries … parents, poets, politicians, philosophers, teachers, prea...
You will say on that day, “I will give thanks to You, O Lord. Even though You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away and You comfort ...
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, an...
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9, NIV) Instead of promises...
Most Christians can talk about Christ being a real person who lived on this earth many years ago. Most Christians speak of Christ being aliv...
Then He said unto them, “O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not Christ to have suffered these th...
Letting the Risen Christ Live in Us Most Christians can talk about Christ being a real person who lived on this earth many years ago. Most C...
There is a word for the inability to express, contain or bring forth adequately in words something too great or extreme to be expressed or d...
Wenceslaus Hollar, Jesus on the Mount of Olives, Print, NGO Image, National Gallery of Art, Public Domain When He arrived at the place, He s...
On the next day many people who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees and w...
Jesus Christ is more … Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take...
But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sh...
He is merciful and tender toward those who don’t deserve it; he is slow to get angry and full of kindness and love. He never bears a grudge,...
“To give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise ...
The Manger Gertrude Käsebier 1852 – 1934 National Gallery of Art, NGO Image, Public Domain “Who, being in very nature God, did not con...
“You know the generous grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty he coul...
“In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was J...
“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel” (Isaia...
“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven – A time to give birth and a time to die; a tim...
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done ...
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that ...
Albrecht Dürer, The Crucifixion, National Gallery of Art, NGO Image, Public Domain "He himself bore our sins" in his body on the cross, so t...
Sometimes we see it as born again into eternal life. If salvation is solely emphasized, we reduce our Christ to a ticket broker to heaven. H...
“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven – A time to give birth and a time to die; a tim...
Theodor Galle after Jan van der Straet Jeremiah Published 1613 Print National Gallery of Art, NGO Image, Public Domain “My soul continually ...