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Noah Webster, author of the first American Speller and the first Dictionary stated: “The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. . . All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from… Read more »

As I have been listening to the talk today, about why some people have entitlements and other do not, I was reminded of something I learned a long time ago. When I got out of high school, I worked for a cabinet shop in Sacramento. One of my first jobs was to go to the… Read more »

Promises given by Jesus to His church. Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are… Read more »

Every morning I get up early and it is in this time of quietness that I pray as I think about my life, my family, my friends, the future. As I read the Scriptures this morning there was one verse that came to my mind: Mark 9:24, “I do believe, but….”     As I… Read more »

Isaiah 5 “What sorrow for those who drag their sins behind them with ropes made of lies, who drag wickedness behind them like a cart! What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark. What sorrow for those who are wise in… Read more »

This morning as I was reading in the Bible Acts 23:11, where God tells Paul he will preach in Rome. God does not tell him the journey he will face while going to Rome, or how he will preach in Rome. If God was to tell you what you would have to face on the… Read more »

Romans 11:35 “Who has given God so much that He needs to pay it back?”   God owes us nothing; we owe Him everything, and yet we are guilty of thinking God owes us.   Think about our prayers, we come to Him and ask that He give to us. Then we complain to Him… Read more »

I just read Daniel 3:13-28 and have applied it to the woke generation and the liberal left of today.     “The woke generation and the liberal left flew into a rage and ordered that anyone who defies them be brought in and asked, ‘Is it true, that you refuse to serve and obey what… Read more »

2 Chronicles 16 is talking about a king of Israel. This king had sought out God throughout his life but in the end of life he had a situation come up that tested his walk with God. This king did not seek God’s help but rather solved it in human wisdom. The result was the… Read more »

Faith is nothing more than doing what our Lord has told you to do! When we act upon His words there will always be a wall of opposition. If we focus on the wall we will always make a wrong assumption, and it will be that our Lord does not care. Faith requires us to… Read more »