Posts from March 2021

1 Samuel 11:1-3 (NASB) Now Nahash the Ammonite came up and besieged Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us and we will serve you.” But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “I will make it with you on this condition, that I will gouge out the right eye of everyone of you, thus I will make it a reproach on all Israel.” And the elders of Jabesh said to him, “Let us…

Hebrews 8:10 (NASB) For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after these days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and I will write them upon their hearts. And, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Hebrews 12:1-2 (NASB) Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles…

James 3:10 (NASB) from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way. Ephesians 4:29 (NASB) Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear. Have you ever had a slip of the tongue…a time when you just were not thinking and shared or expressed something…

It wasn’t long after becoming a new believer that I desired to reach out to people. I knew hospital visits were one thing many Christians did, so I started making them too. A woman came to me and shared that her elderly unsaved father was not expected to live much longer. She asked me to visit him. Iagreed, went to the book store, picked out a nice Bible for him and had it engraved. When I arrived, the man was…