Posts by C. C.

Pro. 17:22 A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. Two sisters, twins, grew up in the same home and in the same way.  In their youth, they were very close and very similar. Unfortunately, life was not always kind.  Their lives were…

Heb. 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, stripping off every unnecessary weight and the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles us, let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us, focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter…

Jn. 16:19-23 Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’?  Very truly I tell you, you will weep…

Jn. 15:9-11 I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love.  If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.   I have told you these things so that My joy…

Rom. 15:13May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. There are many things that all people have in common regardless of faith or spiritual opinion.  One of those things is the characteristic…

Neh. 8:9-10 Then Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping when they heard the words of the Law. Then…

Jam. 2:14‭-‬17 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them…

1 Jn. 3:10‭-‬12 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain…

Jam. 1:16‭-‬18 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a…