Category: Peace

Thanksgiving! A time to be thankful… but for what? For turkey and dressing and all the other things that go with it? For the family gathering together and enjoying a feast as well as a get-together?

Problems—we all have them, and after we pass 50 or so we have a lot more. Health wise, that is. After I had my first surgery back in 1990, I simply was not the man I used to be. I went from taking my day off to work on my property from sunup to a little past sundown. Those days were over after that surgery.

There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth. … There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

There is not one person here this evening who hasn’t been blessed by God in some outstanding way. Yet when faced with new problems, we forget that with God all things are possible and He who helped us hitherto is still present and concerned about our welfare.

I’ve always enjoyed flying in small single-engine airplanes. I don’t have a pilot’s license, but the pilots have often let me fly the plane after we reach the desired altitude. […]

So we thank God for giving us the Ten Commandments—good directions for good living. But we thank God even more for the Gospel—for Jesus living a perfect life in our place and then taking our sins upon Himself to the cross and paying that wage of sin.

You can change that to whatever it is your mind wanders away to. How long is this sermon going to be? Do I have enough in the bank to cover my checks? I wonder where Mrs. Smith is and why she is not here?

The Bible does say, “Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife…” But that is taking it out of its context!

Don’t presume that you can put off for tomorrow what needs to be done today. Get rid of your “roundtoits”!

The “boughs” and the fruit speak of His followers. We are safe in the shadow of His Branch. He is our protector and very present help.

I encountered a beautiful photograph of a Peace Rose, a 50-year-old variety.

When Jesus said, “Go out into the world and preach the Good News to everyone,” He meant the whole world and he meant everyone.