YOU ARE SET FREE!

“I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong, and my bad conscience proves that I agree with these laws I am breaking. But I can’t help myself because I’m no longer doing it. It is sin inside me that is stronger than I am that makes me do these evil things. I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. No matter which way I turn I can’t make...

I WANT WHAT HE HAS #5

“Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.” And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other. And Samson said, “Let me die with the...

BLESSED!

“Gray hair is a mark of distinction, the award for a God-loyal life.” (Proverbs 16:31 The Message Bible) I looked in the mirror Monday morning and contemplated seeking out a professional hair stylist to color my gray beard to a natural black. After staring at my image for a minute, I decided against it because I realized the gray hair was not a sign of being old, but rather a sign of being...

LOOK AND LIVE

“No one has ever gone to heaven and returned.  But the Son of Man has come down from heaven.  And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life. For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have...

PASSING IT ON!

“But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy.  For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.” (I Peter 3:15-16 NLT) For years now, I have limited the number of things that are posted on the refrigerator.  Back in the day, when the children were young, there was so many things on the fridge that you thought it was just an immoveable,...

NO MORE CHAINS HOLDING YOU

“For freedom Christ freed us.  Stand fast therefore and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1 Modern English Version) Rev. Milton Brunson expressed it this way in his lyrics: “I'm free.  Praise the Lord, I'm free.  No longer bound.  No more chains holding me.  My soul is resting.  It's just a blessing.  Praise the Lord,...

PLAY THE GAME JUST AS WE PRACTICED!

“But Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight him; for you are only a youth, while he has been a warrior since his youth.”  But David said to Saul, “Your servant was tending his father’s sheep.  When a lion or a bear came and took a sheep from the flock, I went out after it and attacked it, and rescued the sheep from its mouth; and when it rose up...

“BEST PLACES TO LIVE”

“If you listen obediently to the Voice of God, your God, and heartily obey all his commandments that I command you today, God, your God, will place you on high, high above all the nations of the world.  All these blessings will come down on you and spread out beyond you because you have responded to the Voice of God, your God: God’s blessing inside the city, God’s blessing in the country;...