Feed my Sheep

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. – John 10:27 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.-Isaiah 55:8-9 […]

Every Time I Pray

All scripture quoted is from the NIV translation unless labeled differently.   But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.- James 1:6.  Then, behold, the […]

The Triune God

In the beginning God created the heavens.-Genesis 1:1 “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.” 1 Timothy 6:10.  “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of […]

Lord, Give me Righteousness

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. -Proverbs 23:7  Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. –Proverbs 4:20 Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ […]

God Requires That We Forgive

For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. –Matthew 6:14-15 Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has […]

His Sheep Hear His Voice

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, – 2 Timothy 3:16  Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. – James 4:8  What, then, shall we say in […]

The Good News in Two Acts

Act One “Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him…And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.” – Mark 15:19-20  “For if, while we were enemies, we were […]

You Never Left Me

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.-John 6:68 [for] all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,-Romans 3:23  God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? […]

Who Chooses Who

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love. Ephesians 1:4  For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, […]