A PEOPLE FOR HIS NAME Acts 15:13,14 And after they had become silent, James answered, saying, “Men and brethren, listen to me: Simon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name. This passage describes one of the great turning points in church history. …
QUIET HABITATION Psa. 91:9-10 Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place, No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; Let’s face it, if you are a Christian, this world is not your home. Jesus said we are in the world …
Merry Monday by Parris Bailey GOT SOME SPIKENARD? Song of Solomon, 1:12 “While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.” In Rev.3:20 there is an interesting scripture that Jesus speaks to the Laodicean church. It says, “Behold I stand at the door and knock, and if any man hear …
ABIDING John 15:5,7 ¶ “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” …
ROYAL PRIESTHOOD 1Pet. 2:9 ¶ But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; One of the most radical tenets of the Protestant reformation is called the priesthood of the …
HABITATION Eph.2:18-22 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, …
“Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” Merry Thursday by Parris Bailey “[That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have …
ASH WEDNESDAY Luke 24:46-47 ¶ Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.” One of the …
THROW ME SOMETHING MISTER Eccl. 2:1-2 I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure”; but surely, this also was vanity. I said of laughter—“Madness!”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?” “Throw me something mister,” the familiar quote of the parade goers on Mardi Gras, or is …
The Beauty of the Bride! Merry Monday by Parris Bailey Song of Solomon 1:9-11 “I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots. Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold. We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.” God …
