What You Lookin’ At? How Bad Company Corrupts Good Morals Bad company can spell the end of your reputation and even your freedom. The Bible warns us often about taking stock of who we spend time with, as we see…
Category: Metropolitan Gleanings
Insights and meditations for the thoughtful Christian life.
The Christian Life Is More Than a List of Do’s and Don’ts
“Who Am I,” by Casting Crowns 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the…
“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear..” Psalm 127:1
Evening Verse “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1 “The Lord is my light and my salvation.” Here…
What the Bible Has to Say About Love: Part II
What the Bible Has to Say About Love And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1 Cor 13:13 (KJV) Perhaps what surprised me most about 1 Corinthians 13 is the last…
Love: What the Bible Has to Say About It (Part 1)
Love: What the Bible Has to Say About It Love is something everybody needs. Without it children fail to thrive and adults die before their time. Even the love of pets has a positive effect upon the physical health and mind…
“Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.” 1 Thess 5:24
Quick Word Wednesday Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. 1 Thess 5:24 (KJV) Fear and doubt are sins. That we should ever imagine that our Lord would leave us comfortless is a giant failure…
June 5th Fresh Bread in the Morning: “The Lord shut him in.” Genesis 7:16
June 5 Morning Verse: “The Lord shut him in.” Genesis 7:16 Noah was shut in away from all the world by the hand of divine love. The door of electing purpose interposes between us and the world which lieth in…
Press Towards the Mark!
West Angeles Mass Choir- “Press Toward the Mark,” from the CD “Saints in Praise, Vol.2.” 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;…
June 4 Fresh Bread for the Morning: Spurgeon on “The kindness and love of God our Saviour.” Titus 3:4
June 4 Fresh Bread for the Morning “The kindness and love of God our Saviour.” Titus 3:4 How sweet it is to behold the Saviour communing with His own beloved people! There can be nothing more delightful than, by the…
How to Detox From Noise.
“Baba Yetu” (Swahili: Our Father) by Christopher Tin, performed by Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus, and Stanford Talisman. 11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with…