“Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?”

And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.” And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?” -Matthew 8:23-27

"Why are ye fearful? Doubt not but the ship will come safe to land; though Christ seem for the present to be asleep, the prayers of His disciples will awake Him, and He will rebuke the winds and the waves; though the bush burn, if God be in it, it shall not be consumed." -Matthew Henry

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The Great Retardification Of America’s Youth, Brought To You By ‘Mediocre Elites’  Let’s start with the recent UCSD report on education. In short, one of the most prestigious university systems in California (and so, the world) has been matriculating students who don’t know basic math. They can’t divide a fraction in two. They don’t know how “to start” a word problem. They cannot read beyond a middle school level, never mind read critically.

   In the process of reporting these deficiencies out, there was another stunning discovery: Many of these students had 4.0 grade point averages in public school.

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Doctors “Astounded”: Long-Held Belief About Coffee and Heart Rhythm Was Wrong Although people with heart conditions such as A-Fib are often told to avoid caffeine because it might worsen symptoms, new research suggests the opposite may be true. A collaborative study conducted by the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Adelaide found that drinking one cup of caffeinated coffee per day lowered the risk of A-Fib by 39%.

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Why The Screwtape Letters Still Resonates with Millennials and Gen Z  As Screwtape writes with chilling prescience: “It’s funny how these humans picture us as putting things into their minds. Our best work is done by keeping things out.”

    This is where the digital world excels. Push notifications, autoplay and infinite feeds have transformed our tools into temples of distraction. According to Digital Information World, the average American now spends over seven hours a day in front of a screen; for Gen Z, it’s closer to nine. Screwtape wouldn’t need to invent a thing. The safest road to hell is now algorithmically optimized.

 

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For the grace of God has appeared...

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. -Titus 2:11-14

I love you, O Lord, my strength,,,

I love you, O Lord, my strength.

 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,

    my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,

    my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,

    and I am saved from my enemies.

-Psalm 18:1-3

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts...

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. 

-Colossians 3:12-17

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Trump’s Catholic border chief fires back at US bishops: ‘Spend time fixing the Church’  Homan is not the only Catholic to push back against the USCCB. Lepanto Institute founder Michael Hichborn and commentator Matt Walsh have done so as well.

   “Where was their ‘concern’ about the ‘climate of fear’ created by the Biden administration when it targeted pro-lifers with lawfare? When were they ‘troubled’ by the FBI targeting Traditional Catholic parishes? Were they ever ‘grieved’ by the Biden administration’s war on preborn children?” Hichborn wondered in an X post that was re-shared by over 500 users.

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Kathy Hochul’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani is backfiring spectacularly  The gov’s in a bind: She must either deliver for Mamdani early in the legislative session, or the hard left will gun for her in the June Democratic primary...The mayor-elect wants the state corporate tax upped to 11.5%, from 7.25%; he argues that would just bring New York’s rate in line with New Jersey’s — but he conveniently ignores other taxes NYC companies face, such as the city business corporation tax and the payroll tax for the MTA.

   Those levies bring the actual NYC rate to 18.3% now; Mamdani’s hike would push it to nearly 23% — twice the Garden State’s.

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Google Sued For Allegedly Using Gemini AI Tool To Track Users' Private Communications  Google LLC is accused in a civil lawsuit of using its artificial intelligence program Gemini to collect data on users’ private communications in Gmail as well as Google’s instant messaging and video conference programs.

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The Pacific Palisades Fire Recovery That Never Arrived Reports, task forces, and advisory councils created by state leaders didn't build a single home or restore a kitchen, a bedroom, or a hallway lined with family photographs.

Communities survive wildfires, but working hard to survive a government that refuses to act is much harder. Image

75% of Pacific Palisades Fire Victims Still Stuck in Temporary Housing  

Massive welfare fraud exposed in $100 Billion Federal SNAP program  186,000 dead people, 500,000 multi state claims, 226,000 bogus claims

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UCSD's Freshmen Apply with 4.0 GPAs, But Fail Basic Math as Academic Standards Collapse  Many freshmen arrive on campus completely unprepared for even high-school-level math. In recent years, UCSD has seen a significant increase in enrollment in Math 2 (remedial math) and Math 3B, which now cover skills from elementary through Algebra II. Alarmingly, some students have knowledge gaps in concepts taught as early as grades 1-8.

American Education: From Biblical Roots to Atheism Once a moral and highly literate nation of people, America has become amoral, violent, and dumbed down. We cannot lay all the blame on public education, but we have to consider what kind of morals might develop when citizens are educated in a system that teaches God is irrelevant. We have to consider what effect that a steady barrage of atheism, paganism, and eastern religions in the classroom is having on our youth.

The crippling effect of "woke" on historians 

In the early 2000s DEI, critical race theory, and “wokism” were only beginning to make major inroads in academia. These ideas had become pervasive, but were not yet dominant.

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Synformation: Epistemic Capture meets AI...Synthetic facts and underlying reality matrices are being normalized  Dr. Robert Malone  As I consider my own internal post-mortem mindwalk concerning the bonfire of the COVID vanities, the dominant biases that distorted CDC and ACIP decision-making appear to stem from two principal sources. These two are intertwined, like the famous question of which came first, chicken or egg.

Bias #1. The Cult of Vaccination...

Bias #2. Epistemic Capture...

The Weaponisation of Science 

When journals begin outsourcing editorial judgment to media organisations with commercial or institutional conflicts, peer review itself collapses under the weight of narrative control.

   This is what I mean by the weaponisation of science.

   Fraud today isn’t only about fabricating data — it’s about what institutions choose to suppress. It’s selective enforcement designed to protect profits under the guise of integrity.

Yes, the BBC should apologise – for its covid fearmongering 

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‘Europe is persecuting Christians’ 

Free speech is under serious attack all across Europe. To criticise the sacred cows of the progressive worldview – from transgenderism to immigration and even Islam – is to invite a knock on the door from the thoughtpolice. The recent, harrowing trial of a Finnish parliamentarian reveals how it is often Christians who find themselves in the firing line. Päivi Räsänen has spent the past six years fighting a ‘hate speech’ prosecution, simply for quoting passages from the Bible and defending traditional marriage.

Gunmen Abduct 25 Girls From School in Nigeria  The attackers “engaged police personnel on duty in a gun duel” before scaling the perimeter fence and seizing the students from their hostel, a statement said.

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So we do not lose heart...

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.  -2 Corinthians 4:16-18

All I Have Is Christ

 

All I Have Is Christ 

 (feat. Paul Baloche)

VERSE 1

I once was lost in darkest night

Yet thought I knew the way

The sin that promised joy and life

Had led me to the grave

I had no hope that You would own

A rebel to Your will

And if You had not loved me first

I would refuse You still

VERSE 2

But as I ran my hell-bound race

Indifferent to the cost

You looked upon my helpless state

And led me to the cross

And I beheld God’s love displayed

You suffered in my place

You bore the wrath reserved for me

Now all I know is grace

CHORUS

Hallelujah! All I have is Christ

Hallelujah! Jesus is my life

VERSE 3

Now, Lord, I would be Yours alone

And live so all might see

The strength to follow Your commands

Could never come from me

O Father, use my ransomed life

In any way You choose

And let my song forever be

My only boast is You

Look carefully then how you walk...

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. -Ephesians 5:15-21

Receive every day as a resurrection from death...

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator. -William Law

Set your minds on things that are above...

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.  For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 

-Colossians 3:1-4 Image

Let the heavens be glad...

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice,

    and let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!”

 Let the sea roar, and all that fills it;

    let the field exult, and everything in it!

 Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy

    before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth.

 Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;

    for his steadfast love endures forever!

 -1 Chronicles 16:31-34

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Even the Liberal Media Is Admitting That Obamacare Is a Failure  For years, Democrats sold Obamacare as a moral crusade that would make healthcare cheaper and fairer for everyone. Instead, premiums exploded, deductibles skyrocketed, and coverage got worse. When even CNN pundits are conceding that people can’t afford their insurance “even with subsidies,” the illusion of success is crumbling. No amount of spin can hide the reality that Obamacare’s signature achievement — affordability — never materialized.

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As Mamdani Heads to City Hall, ICE Offers NYPD Officers a Way Out 

Mamdani’s Victory Proves Mass Legal Migration Is Just As Dangerous As Illegal Migration  No matter how great our principles sound, they mean nothing to a population that doesn’t understand or value them.

America needs a 40-year pause in immigration

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New Alliance, Old Scandal: The COVID Failure Haunting Hochul   Gov. Kathy Hochul’s new “nonpartisan” health alliance masks a partisan agenda—and revives memories of New York’s deadly nursing home scandal and years of cover-ups. Image

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The digital Reich: how America forgot the lessons of 'Never Again' Eighty years after Auschwitz, America has reinvented propaganda with hashtags, algorithms; political extremes now mirror each other and same tactics Holocaust education was meant to end are once again shaping the American mind. Image

Princeton hires professor who denied Oct. 7 massacre to teach course on Gaza 

How the Hell Did We Let China Buy a Trailer Park in THIS Spot? 

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It’s Impossible To Keep Up With The Fall Of Britain 

Meanwhile, the consequences of unchecked migration and non-assimilation are playing out on the streets of increasingly dangerous British cities. Most of the migrants arriving in Britain are from places like Eritrea, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Somalian — societies that have very different views of civic life and of civilization itself. Most of them are Muslim, and upon their arrival they are absorbed into one of Britain’s many growing unassimilated Muslim communities — in Birmingham, Bedford, and parts of London like Tower Hamlets. These are places that only bear a faint resemblance to what they were 20 years ago thanks to mass immigration.

WWII Navy Veteran Sinks British Establishment  

Instead, Penstone bemoaned the sorry state of freedom in a censorship-addicted United Kingdom in which actual “thought police” arrest Brits for expressing opinions.  “What we fought for was our freedom.  We find that even now, it’s a darn sight worse than what it was when I fought for it.”  Boom!  The ol’ salty dog managed to knock out both co-hosts with just a few blunt words and direct eye contact.

When the ‘Pastor’ Marries Four Men: Germany’s Truce with Polygamy 

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Swedish Patients, Muslim ‘Caregivers’ 

A 20-year-old Iraqi migrant who had previously served prison sentences for drug offenses was discovered to have filmed and mocked elderly dementia patients while employed as a caregiver at a municipal care home in Ängelholm, southern Sweden.

Flashback: ‘I Won’t Treat Them. I’ll Kill Them.’...The Australian nurses who bragged about murdering Jews are not outliers

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The path of the righteous is level...

The path of the righteous is level;

    you make level the way of the righteous.

 In the path of your judgments,

    O Lord, we wait for you;

your name and remembrance

    are the desire of our soul.

 My soul yearns for you in the night;

    my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.

For when your judgments are in the earth,

    the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

     -Isaiah 26:7-9

O you who love the Lord, hate evil!

O you who love the Lord, hate evil!

    He preserves the lives of his saints;

    he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

 Light is sown for the righteous,

    and joy for the upright in heart.

 Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous,

    and give thanks to his holy name!

-Psalm 97:10-12 Image

Rise With The Sun

 

Rise With The Sun 

CityAlight

V1

There’s a song that’s sung through the nations

Of joyful thanks to the King

Where the countless saints who are rescued 

Praise Jesus who set them all free

V2

Hear the anthem sung in the islands 

Where sun first touches the earth

Over land and sea it advances

Now joined by the saints of this church

CHORUS

Rise with the sun 

Lift up His name

All through the earth

We sing out His praise

East to the west

Night to the day

Join in the song

And sing out His praise

V3

I will add my voice to the chorus

Of many people and tongues

For we share the gift of salvation

And share in the life yet to come

CHORUS

BRIDGE

And the church will sing

Holy, holy, holy are You Lord

You’re the glorious one, we lift up Your name

And the church will sing

(Fijian)Tabu

(German) Heilig 

(Aus Creol) Oli

are you Lord

You’re the Lamb who was slain, we lift up Your name

And the church will sing

(Mandarin) Shèngjié

(Spanish) Santo

(Hebrew) Kadosh

are you Lord

You’re the King who was raised, we lift up Your name

And the church will sing

Holy, holy, holy are You Lord

Now You reign evermore, we lift up Your name

Over all of the world, we lift up Your name

CHORUS

Rise with the sun 

Lift up His name

All through the earth

We sing out His praise

East to the west

Night to the day

Join in the song

And sing out His praise

Come sing out His praise!

Every growth of spiritual life...

Every growth of spiritual life, from the first tender shoot until now, has been the work of the Holy Spirit....The only way to more life is the Holy Spirit. You will not even know that you want more unless He works in you to desire it....The Spirit of God must come and make the letter alive, transfer it to your heart, set it on fire, and make it burn within you, or else its divine force and majesty will be hid from your eyes....Prayer is the creation of the Holy Spirit. We cannot do without prayer, and we cannot pray without the Holy Spirit. -CH Spurgeon

Restore us again, O God of our salvation...

Restore us again, O God of our salvation,

    and put away your indignation toward us!

 Will you be angry with us forever?

    Will you prolong your anger to all generations?

 Will you not revive us again,

    that your people may rejoice in you?

 Show us your steadfast love, O Lord,

    and grant us your salvation.

 Let me hear what God the Lord will speak,

    for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints;

    but let them not turn back to folly.

 Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him,

    that glory may dwell in our land.

    -Psalm 85:4-9 

Beloved, let us love one another...

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. -1 John 4:7-12

Come and hear, all you who fear God...

   Come and hear, all you who fear God,

    and I will tell what he has done for my soul.

 I cried to him with my mouth,

    and high praise was on my tongue.

 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,

    the Lord would not have listened.

 But truly God has listened;

    he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

 Blessed be God,

    because he has not rejected my prayer

    or removed his steadfast love from me!

 -Psalm 66:16-20

Election Day Prayer 2025

“First of all, then, I ask that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone, for kings and for all in authority, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all devotion and dignity. This is good and pleasing to God our savior, who wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth.” -1 Timothy:1-4

Lord God, as the election approaches, we seek to better understand the issues and concerns that confront our city/state/country, and how the Gospel compels us to respond as faithful citizens in our community.

   We ask for eyes that are free from blindness so that we might see each other as brothers and sisters, one and equal in dignity, especially those who are victims of abuse and violence, deceit and poverty.

   We ask for ears that will hear the cries of children unborn and those abandoned. We ask for minds and hearts that are open to hearing the voice of leaders who will bring us closer to your Kingdom.

   We pray for discernment so that we may choose leaders who hear your Word, live your love, and keep in the ways of your truth as they follow in the steps of Jesus and his Apostles and guide us to your Kingdom of justice and peace.

   We ask this in the name of your Son Jesus Christ and through the power of the Holy Spirit.  

          - Author Unknown

O Lord, my heart is not lifted up...

O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;

    my eyes are not raised too high;

 I do not occupy myself with things

    too great and too marvelous for me.

 But I have calmed and quieted my soul,

    like a weaned child with its mother;

    like a weaned child is my soul within me.

 O Israel, hope in the Lord

    from this time forth and forevermore.

   -Psalm 131

The Mercy of God

 

 The Mercy of God 

 StillCreek

Verse 1:

Christ has met my greatest need

Death beat death upon a tree

In the wake of calvary

I’m healed and I’m redeemed

Verse 2:

Every rightful debt I owed

Plunged beneath His cleansing flow

Grace abounding, endless hope

Find rest in this, my soul

Chorus:

O the vast, enduring love of Jesus

An endless well never running dry

All my sin, forgiven, forevermore

How great is the mercy of God

Verse 3:

Surely as the sun will rise

Kindness reaches deep and wide

Day by day I wake to find

There’s more He will supply

Bridge:

How great, how great

His mercy made a way

Give thanks, give thanks

My soul can’t help but say

I wait for the Lord...

 

Psalm 130:5 

 Marcus Stanley

A Mighty Fortress is Our God...

 

A Mighty Fortress is Our God

1.  A mighty fortress is our God,

a bulwark never failing;

our helper he, amid the flood

of mortal ills prevailing.

For still our ancient foe

does seek to work us woe;

his craft and power are great,

and armed with cruel hate,

on earth is not his equal.

2.  Did we in our own strength confide,

our striving would be losing,

were not the right Man on our side,

the Man of God's own choosing.

You ask who that may be?

Christ Jesus, it is he;

Lord Sabaoth his name,

from age to age the same;

and he must win the battle.

3.  And though this world, with devils filled,

should threaten to undo us,

we will not fear, for God has willed

his truth to triumph through us.

The prince of darkness grim,

we tremble not for him;

his rage we can endure,

for lo! his doom is sure;

one little word shall fell him.

4.  That Word above all earthly powers

no thanks to them abideth;

the Spirit and the gifts are ours

through him who with us sideth.

Let goods and kindred go,

this mortal life also;

the body they may kill:

God's truth abideth still;

his kingdom is forever!

-Martin Luther

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What gives peace to the conscience is, that by faith our sins are no more ours but Christ’s, on whom God hath laid them all; and that, on the other hand, all Christ’s righteousness is ours, to whom God hath given it. Christ lays his hand upon us, and we are healed; he casts his mantle on us, and we are clothed; he is the glorious Saviour, blessed for ever. -Martin Luther Image

With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation...

With joy you will draw water 

from the wells of salvation. 

And you will say in that day:

“Give thanks to the Lord,

    call upon his name,

make known his deeds among the peoples,

    proclaim that his name is exalted.

“Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously;

    let this be made known in all the earth.

 Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,

    for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

  -Isaiah 12:3-6

The Lord is near to all who call on him...

The Lord upholds all who are falling

    and raises up all who are bowed down.

 The eyes of all look to you,

    and you give them their food in due season.

 You open your hand;

    you satisfy the desire of every living thing.

 The Lord is righteous in all his ways

    and kind in all his works.

 The Lord is near to all who call on him,

    to all who call on him in truth.

 He fulfills the desire of those who fear him;

    he also hears their cry and saves them.

 The Lord preserves all who love him,

    but all the wicked he will destroy.

 My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,

    and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.

    -Psalm 145:14-21

For when I am weak, then I am strong...

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.   -2 Corinthians 12:7-10

“My God, I have never thanked You for my thorn. I have thanked You a thousand times for my roses, but not once for my thorn. I have been looking forward to a world where I shall get compensation for my cross; but I have never thought of my cross as itself a present glory. Teach me the glory of my cross; teach me the value of my thorn. Show me that I have climbed to You by the path of pain. Show me that my tears have made my rainbows.” –George Matheson

“You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,  since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” -1 Peter 1:13-15

Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross

 

Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross 

Keith and Kristyn Getty, Sandra McCracken

Vs 1

Jesus, keep me near the cross

There a precious fountain

Free to all, a healing stream,

Flows from Calv’ry’s mountain

Chorus

In the cross, in the cross

Be my glory ever

Till my ransomed soul shall find

Rest beyond the river

Vs 2

Near the cross my trembling soul

Heard the Savior calling

There He died that I may know

Grace and peace abounding

Vs 3

Near the cross! O Lamb of God,

Bring its scenes before me

Help me walk from day to day

With its shadow o’er me

Vs 4

Near the cross! My heart will stay

Hoping, trusting ever

Till my eyes shall see the face

Of my blessed Savior

God has given us two hands...

God has given us two hands-one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for giving.  -Billy Graham

Make me to know your ways, O Lord...

Make me to know your ways, O Lord;

    teach me your paths.

 Lead me in your truth and teach me,

    for you are the God of my salvation;

    for you I wait all the day long.

 Remember your mercy, O Lord, 

and your steadfast love,

    for they have been from of old.

 Remember not the sins of my youth 

or my transgressions;

    according to your steadfast love remember me,

    for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!

-Psalm 25:4-7

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel...

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

    you who lead Joseph like a flock.

You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.

    Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,

stir up your might

    and come to save us!

 Restore us, O God;

    let your face shine, that we may be saved!

 -Psalm 80:1-3