Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace is the second book in my Faith Series which chronicles my faith walk by the decade. The beginning of the journey is My God and Me: Listening, Learning and Growing on My Journey. Desert of Solitude is an excellent long-form companion to Alone | All In One: A SolitaryContinueContinue reading “Desert of Solitude Revised”
Category Archives: Grace
ACAD – Psalm 65: O God of Our Salvation
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song. Praise is due to you,[a] O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed. O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come. When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions. Blessed is the one you choose and bring near,ContinueContinue reading “ACAD – Psalm 65: O God of Our Salvation”
Song & Verse: I Almost Let Go by Kurt Carr
Indeed. I almost let go. I felt like I just couldn’t take life anymore. My problems had me down. Depression weighed me down. But God held me close so I wouldn’t let go. So I’m here today because God kept me. I almost let go I felt like I couldn’t take life anymore My problemsContinueContinue reading “Song & Verse: I Almost Let Go by Kurt Carr”
ACAD – Rejected: Isaiah 53
Prophesy of Jesus’s rejection and execution by the people. Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? “He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; and as one from whom others hide their faces He was despised, and we held Him of no account. Surely He has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.”
Thoughts On Faith and Prayer: BEAUTY FOR ASHES
I will give them a crown to replace their ashes, and the oil of gladness to replace their sorrow, and clothes of praise to replace their spirit of sadness. Then they will be called Trees of Goodness, trees planted by the Lord to show His greatness. (Click to hear the message.)
Eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney by President Barack Obama
Justice grows out of recognition… of ourselves in each other… then my liberty depends on you being free too. History can’t be a sword to justify injustice. Or a shield against progress. It must be a manual for how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. How to break the cycle. A roadway for a better world. He knew that the path of grace involves an open mind, but more importantly an open heart.
Letters of the Bible: Jude Writes to the Called
It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
A Chapter a Day: 1 Peter 2
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Harvest Life 