Month: August 2025

JESUS:“I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE.”

John 11: 25-26   Jesus said to her,  “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,  and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”   For almost all of us, as we closely watch the dying of a …

James And Mary Penney Faithful Shepherds

AN APOLOGY AND AN EXPLANATION: Just a few short weeks ago, I posted a tribute to James and Mary Penney. Many folks commented on how much they admired this godly couple from our church family. Then, somehow that post disappeared. I worked with my web site’s administrators, but they could not find it—I most probably …

GOD AND FAMILY FIRST

      I Timothy 6:11-12 KJV But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereupon thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. This week I write to …

God Leads Us From Before The Beginning To Beyond The End

      Isaiah 46:8-11 ”Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from the ancient times things not yet done, …

God The Initiator

JOHN 15:16 ESV You did not choose me, but I chose you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER (In Meditating On the Word) ”If we ask how we should begin life …