“A voice is calling,
‘Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness;
Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.
Let every valley be lifted up,
And every mountain and hill be made low;
And let the rough ground become a plain,
And the rugged terrain a broad valley;
Then the glory of the Lord...
It was God’s will to crush Him,
That He might die for our sins.
By faith in our Lord Jesus,
All our sins are now forgiven.
But faith not just words spoken,
Faith results – obedience,
Our sins all now forsaken,
As we now do walk with Him.
We walk with Him now daily,
Our desire now for Him,
We...
“But the Lord was pleased
To crush Him, putting Him to grief;
If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see it and be satisfied...
When life has its ups and downs,
And you’re tempted now to frown,
Look to God, of much renown,
So that, in fears, you’ll not drown.
Listen to His every word,
Listen not to what’s absurd,
Believe in Him, what you’ve heard,
Not the wrong way now do swerve.
Peace in God you want to live,
Your...
“Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing...
“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him...
Probably since 2017 the Lord Jesus has been having me use Bible Gateway and their “Verse of the Day” passage of Scripture as the passage that I am to study and to write on each day, only usually extending to the whole chapter and/or beyond, but not the whole chapter in one writing, but divided...
Sing a song of mercy,
Of Jesus, Savior, King,
Gave His life up for us,
Our offerings to Him bring.
When He died for our sins,
‘Twas so we’d die with Him,
Walk with Him, obey Him,
And not live for a whim.
Life with Him is Holy,
For us He purified,
Crucified for our sins,
For that is why He...
“Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, and in them you also once walked, when you were...
What do you now believe in?
What captivates your life?
What now gets all your passion?
What in you now is rife?
What gets you up in morning?
Keeps you up late at night?
What satisfies your longings?
What takes you to that height?
What interests you, so you search
For truth of what that is...
“But He knows the way I take;
When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
My foot has held fast to His path;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.
I have not departed from the command of His lips;
I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.” (Job 23:10-12...
For as long as I can remember, and I am 75 years old, John 3:16 has been taught as “the gospel message,” without regard for what other Scriptures teach, and without regard for the meanings of the individual words which give us a much broader story than what most people use John 3:16 for.
So...
“Now when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. And a scribe came up and said to him, ‘Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.’...
If we are of genuine God-given and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, then prior to us coming to faith in Christ we were once separate from him and unable in our own sinful flesh to be approved by him or to share in his righteousness and holiness. For we who were outside of genuine faith in...