SALVATION BY GRACE ALONE knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no …
NOT SO DUMB AFTER ALL The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand. Isa.1:3 Sometimes it seems as if we are “dumber” than the common beasts, they are smart enough to know where their food comes from. I have a beagle named …
DEATH IS PRECIOUS Precious in the sight of the Lord Is the death of His saints. Ps.116:15 For us on earth, death seems like such a tragedy, but not so for the Lord and those in heaven. Death is precious to the Lord, it leads His sons and daughters right into is arms. To leave …
IT PLEASED THE LORD TO BRUISE HIM Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. Isa.53:10 What a strange …
ABSOLUTELY For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 2 Ti.4:3,4 I keep finding myself returning to this passage of scripture again …
Three Strikes your out! Merry Monday by Parris Bailey And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? None is good, save one, that is, God. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, …
RESURRECTION And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he …
IN NEED OF RESURECTION Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live. Jn.11:25 All of us were dead, in the dead man’s tomb of our past lives, like Lazarus, until Jesus raised us from the dead. Just as Lazarus lay hopeless …
CRUCIFIXION So Pilate delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. …
GETHSEMANE And he came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. And when he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.” And he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and knelt down and prayed, saying, …
