DEALING WITH FAILINGS

“Failure is delay but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.” (Quote from William Arthur Ward) Some of you have certainly heard me repeat this axiom, an actual truth on more than one occasion: “We have failings, but we are not failures.” I base this truism on the following scriptures. (1) “For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard...

ERRORS!

“For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.” (Romans 3:23 NLT) Some of you are still laughing at the error you stumbled on towards the end of this past Saturday’s meditation.  If you are not still laughing, your initial response, at the least was, “What!”  I got it right on the blog site, but to those who I send the meditations to via email,...

IN REGARD TO OUR FAILURES

“For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize and understand our weaknesses and temptations, but One who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sin.  Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with confidence and without fear, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need .” (Hebrews 4:15-16 The Amplified Bible) I love...

FIGHTING THE FAILINGS

“Now they arrested Him and led Him away and brought Him to the house of the high priest; but Peter was following at a distance.  After they kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter was sitting among them.  And a slave woman, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, and staring at him, said, “This man was with Him as well.”  But he denied it, saying, “I...