It’s Friday…
Peter is asleep. Judas has betrayed Him. Mary is crying. Hope is lost. Death has won. Satan is laughing. Jesus is buried. A soldier stands guard. A rock is rolled into place.
… BUT SUNDAY IS COMING!
🗣 S.M. Lockridge
Religion cannot save you. Being a Catholic, a Baptist, a Pentecostal, a Lutheran, or whatever else cannot save you. Only the blood of Jesus Christ can save you. #ThursdayThoughts
this can be a difficult season for some, because there will be an empty chair at the table where a loved one once sat.
the sadness is real, but so is God’s presence. may He bring you comfort, peace, and joy in this season.
Almost every teenager praying at the flag pole this Wed morning will have this in common: They have a student pastor who has compassion toward a lost generation and thus called his students to unite with others in prayer.
No one owns anything. Everything you “have” is temporarily loaned to you by God. He owns it all. You’re just the caretaker.
“The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.”
Leviticus 25:23 NASB
In January 1968 seatbelts, became required. I was a senior in highschool, and my generation cried, "Don't tell us what to do. This is the land of the free." I didn't join that protest. My mom was killed in a head-on car crash in 1961. Freedom is to be stewarded for other's good.
Was reminded of this today: The early church didn’t pray for protection, they prayed for power!
The church would be wise to remember the words of A.W. Tozer, “A scared world needs a fearless church.”