Thursday, March 28, 2024

Easter Deviled Eggs

"Deviled eggs have long been a beloved snack, ideal for appetizers or circulating on a party platter. Now, prepare to elevate your deviled egg game to an artistic level with a recipe that transforms these delightful bites into a visual masterpiece." 




Recipe here: Deviled Egg Bouquet

1 Corinthians 10:31 ... Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.  ðŸŒ· ðŸŒ·ðŸŒ·

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Your Pastor ~

Q: How much authority does your pastor have over you? 

 A: None. 

Christ did not appoint little Popes over the church, he established servants. 

[Christopher Gregory]

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Psalm 34:22 ... The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

John 12:16 ... If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

Galatians 5:13 ... For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.  

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

God's Peace...

The world can create trouble in peace,
but God can create peace in trouble.

  [Thomas Watson]



 John 14:27 ... Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Philippians 4:7 ... And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 


Monday, March 25, 2024

Conviction...

 You are in a very dangerous place if you lose the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

God is most angry with someone when He no longer corrects them. 

Repent.

Psalm 7:11 ... God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.


Romans 1:28 ...  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;


Job 4:9 ... By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.


Deuteronomy 31:17 ... Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?


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Sunday, March 24, 2024

Only One.

Stop exalting men.

Start exalting Jesus.

There is only one LORD.




Ephesians 4:5-6 ... One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 

Saturday, March 23, 2024

The More Bloody --- The More Lovely!

Lost men cannot see the stupendous beauty of Christ. All sparkling beauties are found in Him—but they lack eyes! He is infinitely and superlatively lovely! All that we could ever say about Jesus falls infinitely short of His matchless worth. He is pure, unspotted beauty! There is an infinite resplendency, a sparkling luster to His beauty! Jesus is most lovely in His sufferings, when He made an atonement for our sins. What, lovely in His sufferings? Lovely when He was buffeted, spit upon, and besmeared with blood? Oh yes, He was most lovely upon the cross, when He showed most love to us!  He bled love at every vein! Those drops were love drops! The more blood the more lovely! 

Oh, how lovely ought a bleeding Savior be to our eyes! Let us wear this blessed crucifix always in our heart! The cross of Christ is the key that opens paradise to us! How beautiful is Christ on the cross! The ruddiness of His blood took away the redness of our guilt! Christ's crucifixion is our coronation! He left His Father's bosom, that hive of sweetness to come and live in this poor world. Truly, He exchanged the palace for the dunghill! "The unsearchable riches of Christ!" (Ephesians 3:8)

Not even the angels can dig to the bottom of this mine! They adore Christ, being ravished with His amazing beauties! Jesus is the very extract and quintessence of beauty. He is a whole paradise of delights! 

[Thomas Watson]



Song of Solomon 5:16 ...  His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. 

Friday, March 22, 2024

Our God!

God may, if He wills, save the entire human race. Or if it pleases Him, He may save none. If He so wills, He may make one man a monument of mercy, and leave his neighbor to reap his due punishment. This is what God has a right to do, and He claims His sovereign prerogative.  No doctrine in the whole Word of God has more excited the hatred of mankind than the truth of the absolute sovereignty of God! 

Men have no objection to a god who is really no God. I mean, by this: a god who shall be the subject of their caprice, a god who shall be a lackey to their will, a god who shall be under their control they have no objection to such a being as that. But a God who speaks, and it is done; a God who commands, and it stands fast; a God who does as He wills among the armies of Heaven and among the inhabitants of this lower world such a God as this they cannot endure! 

[Charles H. Spurgeon] 

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Romans 9:13-16 ...  As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

Psalm 115:3 ...  But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

Psalm 135:5-6 ... For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods. Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places. 

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Not Works, But Grace

Going to church, reading the Bible, giving, praying, mission trips, are all good habits but they mean nothing compared to grace. Works, regardless how religious they are won’t keep you in the faith, but grace will. 

[Christopher Gregory]

Ephesians 2:8-9 ... For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:  Not of works, lest any man should boast.

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

The Cross ...

The Cross was never designed to expose your sin, it was designed to remove your sin and EXPOSE your value.







1 Corinthians 15:3 ... For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

John 3:16-17  ... For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Growth in Grace!!

Growth in grace is evidenced by a more habitual vigilance against besetting sins and temptations, and by greater self-denial in regard to personal indulgence. A growing conscientiousness in regard to what may be called minor Christian duties is also a good sign. (The counterfeit of this is an over-scrupulous conscience, which sometimes haggles at the most innocent gratifications, and has led some to hesitate about taking their daily food.) 

Increasing spiritual mindedness is sure evidence of progress in piety; and this will always be accompanied by increasing deadness to the world. Continued aspirations for God, indicate the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, by whose agency all progress in sanctification is made. Increasing solicitude for the salvation of men, sorrow on account of their sinful and miserable condition, and a disposition tenderly to warn sinners of their danger evince a growing state of piety. 

It is also strong evidence of growth in grace, when you can bear injuries and provocations with meekness, and when you can from the heart, desire the temporal and eternal welfare of your bitterest enemies. An entire and confident reliance on the promises and providence of God, however dark may be your horizon, or however many difficulties environ you is a sign that you have learned to live by faith. Humble contentment with your condition, though it is one of poverty and obscurity shows that you have profited by sitting at the feet of Jesus. 

Diligence in the duties of our secular calling, with a view to the glory of God is evidence not to be despised. Indeed, there is no surer standard of spiritual growth, than a habit of aiming at the glory of God in everything! Increasing love to the brethren is a sure sign of growth; for as brotherly love is a proof of the existence of grace, so is the exercise of such love a proof of vigor in the divine life. A victory over besetting sins by which the person was frequently led away shows an increased vigor in grace. Sometimes the children of God grow faster when in the fiery furnace than elsewhere. As metals are purified by being cast into the fire so saints have their dross consumed and their graces brightened, by being cast into the furnace of affliction! 

[Archibald Alexander] 

2 Peter 3:18 ... But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

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Monday, March 18, 2024

Be Changed!!

 You have never gone too fat that God can't redeem you. Retore you. Forgive you.

The Lord is a God of second chances.



1 John 1:9 ... If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.


Ezekiel 36:26 ...  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Colossians 1:14 ...  In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: