None Righteous… Huh?

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:            ~ Romans 3:10   -KJV  WARNING: Today’s comments rate a 9.1 on a 10 scale of “Grumpy Reformer”.   So… put on a helmut and continue reading…

So ought men to love their wives.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.       ~ Ephesians 5:28   -KJV Flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone. We are part of each-other.  We grow together…

The Battle Within

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.            ~ Romans 7:25   -KJV We see here a body…

Washing of Water by The Word

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,          ~ Ephesians 5:26   -KJV How do we wash what is spotted and blemished from ourselves and from others?  With well chosen words.  With the Word…

The Power to Lift Us

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:             ~ Romans 8:3…

Following God as Dear Children

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;       ~ Ephesians 5:1   -KJV Little children follow their parent’s footsteps.  They duplicate their parent’s actions.  Their eye is on parental example and when not directly scrutinizing, they are indirectly influenced…

Trusting the Judge of the Cosmos

But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)                   ~ Romans 3:5       -KJV There is (at…

The Benefits of Honoring Your Parents

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)               ~ Ephesians 6:2   -KJV We can obey out of fear. Or we might also out of love. Honor brings obedience to a higher level…

First of all, Let it die.

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?       ~ Romans 6:3  -KJV This burying of ourselves through baptism is an appropriate illustration of what needs to be done with…

Cultivating a Thankful Heart

Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;      ~ Ephesians 5:20       -KJV Thankfulness at all times and for all things is the seed of an overcoming spirit…