Luke 10:20 – However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. Family, our home is not here. I love my country and would, with all of its faults, I choose no other place to live. I’m blessed that I live in a location minutes…
Continue Reading1 John 4:7-8 – Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. The following story, one of my favorites from early church history, is credited to Jerome (AD 345-420)…
Continue Reading1 John 2:22-23 – 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also. Acts 5:42 – Day after day, in the temple courts and from house…
Continue ReadingMatthew 25:31-46 (34-45) – 34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink,…
Continue Reading1 Peter 1:1-2 – Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance. Peter…
Continue ReadingI’ve love this song since I was a very young boy. My Dad used to sing it our house. Even before we were Christians it meant a lot to us. As a Christian, it has meant so much more to me. As a child I loved the story in the song, a simple one of…
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