• LORD, TRUSTING WHAT YOU SAY

    “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.” —I Peter 1:24-25 For the word of the Lord is right and true; he is faithful in all he does. —Psalm 33:4              Grass, people, flowers— their glory is fading away, withering and will be no more.  But God’s Word is not like that.  The glory of His Word endures forever.  His Word “is right and true; he is faithful in all he does.”  Only our Lord “is right and true; he is faithful in all he does.”  That can be…

  • I AM FORGIVEN!  MY SIN IS GONE!

    Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.  Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit. —Psalm 32:1-2  Forgiven!  “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.” For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all…

  • LOVINGLY DO WHAT GOD SAY AND DESIRES!

    Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.  Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. —James 1:21-25 In the…

  • LIFE’S FOCUS FOR THE FOLLOWER OF JESUS

    Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. —Hebrews 11:1 He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. —Hebrews 11:26 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” —Hebrews 13:5              What is our faith like?  Are we “confidence in what we hope for?”  Do we have the “assurance about what we do not see?” …

  • BEWARE!  JUDGMENT IS COMING FOR THOSE REJECTING JESUS!

    He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption… that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant. —Hebrews 9:12,15 But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he…

  • JESUS ALONE SAVES FROM SIN AND JUDGMENT—- BE FORGIVEN!

    Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. —Hebrews 7:26 He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself. —Hebrews 7:27 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped.  Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song. —Psalm 28:7-8              I rejoice to know, and my heart sings out, that “The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped.”  Without Jesus, I would be doomed forever.  How amazing is it that “He…

  • BE ON SOLID FOOD, NOT MILK!

    We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. —Hebrews 5:11-14 The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear?  The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I…

  • DON’T HARDEN YOUR HEART!

    Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. —Hebrews 3:7-8 Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways. —Hebrews 3:10 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. —Hebrews 3:12-13 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. —Hebrews 3:18-19              What…