Nehemiah 2:17 “… come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.” “Nehemiah” is a book in the Old Testament about a guy called Nehemiah, the man who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem that had been destroyed by Babylonian invasion and the following years of neglect and…
Matthew 5:2 “And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,” Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:4 “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” Jesus Christ delivered many memorable sermons in the Bible, but there is perhaps no more better known…
Proverbs 16:1 “The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.” This verse had meant nothing to me before the year 2023. Could this verse really be true? Could what people say to me, good or bad, whether I agree or not, whether right or not… really…
Psalm 40:2 “He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.” It would be nice to think that none of us would ever go through hard times in life. And some people do seem to get it far,…
James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” Hello readers, I hope you’ve had a great week! Today I want to briefly talk about God’s perfect gift to you. It’s nice to be given…
John 8:9 “And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.” Hello readers, blogs have been a bit fewer and far between of late. But here is something…
Mark 4:3 “Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:” Mark 4:4 “And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.” Mark 4:5 “And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it…
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2 Peter 1:8 “For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” In 2 Peter 1, the apostle Peter writes about “things” that are meant to be added to our faith. You have faith in Christ?…
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Acts 7:22 “And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.” Acts 7:23 “And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.” Acts 7:24 “And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended…
Ephesians 1:13 “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,” Can you lose your salvation? Can I lose my salvation? This is a question that bugs many a Christian,…
2 Peter 3:7 “But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.” Hello readers, today I want to talk a little bit about “the same word”. Maybe you’ve never read anything I’ve written before,…
Luke 11:33 “No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.” Luke 11:34 “The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full…
