Because of Him

2 I saw Holy Jerusalem, new-created, descending resplendent out of Heaven, as ready for God as a bride for her husband. 3-5 I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: “Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They’re his people, he’s their God. He’ll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good—tears gone, crying gone, pain gone—all the first…

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. ~ Robert Frost I’m sure that won’t happen to you, friends. I have better things in mind for you—salvation things! God doesn’t miss anything. He knows perfectly well all the love you’ve shown him by helping needy Christians, and that you keep at it. And now I want each of you to extend that same intensity toward a…

14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. ​2 Chronicles 7:14 English Standard Version ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4ehnZ_GnEY&list=RDa4ehnZ_GnEY&start_radio=1 This scripture has shown up everywhere of late.  In church, in the White…

​ Jesus said, “Today is salvation day in this home! Here he is: Zacchaeus, son of Abraham! For the Son of Man came to find and restore the lost.”       Luke 19:​ 9-10​    ~The MessagePut your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.   ​~ Swami SivanandaI​’ve always liked Zacchaeus.  He was short.  I am short.  He climbed a tree to see Jesus.  I used to…

23 since all have sinned and come short of earning God’s praise. 24 By God’s grace, without earning it, all are granted the status of being considered righteous before him, through the act redeeming us from our enslavement to sin that was accomplished by the Messiah Yeshua.     ~Romans 3:23-24        Complete Jewish Bible A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful…

16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. ~1 John 3:16   English Standard Version Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. Torquato Tasso Easter Sunday, Resurrection Sunday –Life changing this year.  The Lord invited me to be a part of many aspects that led to our church’s Easter…

10 But he knows the way that I take;    when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.11 My foot has held fast to his steps;    I have kept his way and have not turned aside.     ~Job 23:10-11        English Standard Version A person’s a person, no matter how small.      ~ Dr. Seuss The first thing I noticed was that this daily scripture came from the book of Job.  You know, that guy who…

11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.     ~ 1 John 3:11 It’s always too early to quit.      ~ Norman Vincent Peale We are in a new (to us) church.  Where we came from, the relationships were old and established.  Folks moved, folks passed, folks left. There were relationships left behind, the lockdown enabled the further breakdown…

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.​Matthew 7:12English Standard Version ​This print of Norman Rockwell’s painting Do Unto Others was in the hallway of every elementary school in our local school district.  It was there for a long time.  And all of a sudden, it was gone. Not only gone, but not able to be found in any basement…

26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave[a] nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. ​     ~ Galatians 3:26-28​         English Standard Version​How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,…

  ~ Isaiah 1:16-17​         English Standard Version16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;    remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;cease to do evil,17     learn to do good;seek justice,    correct oppression;bring justice to the fatherless,    plead the widow’s cause.Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.​      ~Anthony J. D’Angelo A​ dear…

30 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there…

John 15:5,8 (English Standard Version)I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ​I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without loveFor love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faithBut the faith and the love and the hope…

 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. John 1:1-2English Standard Version ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQBi20lDETU&list=RDKQBi20lDETU&start_radio=1 ​In the Beginning – Rosephanye Powell  Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.​~ Rupert Brooke ​I have had the…