Monthly archives: August, 2021

What Is?

August 31, 2021 testadmin

America The Beautiful

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!

 

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

Katherine L. Bates (1859-1929)

Duty Of All Mankind

August 14, 2021 testadmin

Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind.

For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every

hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

 

to withstand/the wheel

August 13, 2021 testadmin

 

I believe that in any trial or tribulation God will give us all the power we need to withstand it.

But he does not give it in advance, lest we rely on ourselves alone. If we trust in him we can

overcome all anxiety for the future.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

 

No Acknowledgment

August 12, 2021 testadmin

“There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. Because of this the land mourns, and all who live in it waste away;

 

the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying.” Hosea 4:1b-3

 

my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.”    Hosea 4:6

And it will be: Like people, like priests. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.

Hosea 4:9

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
Hosea 6:6

 

Ignite A Flame

August 1, 2021 testadmin

“Ignite a flame in our hearts that we may not neglect you,

but pursue you with everything we have.”

 

The final request to God from Dr. R.C. Sproul (1939-2017) In his concluding prayer from his last sermon, “A Great Salvation”, to the congregation at St. Andrew’s Chapel in Sanford, FL on November 26, 2017