Early in my Christian life I was taught that salvation is the bottom rung of the spiritual ladder. It is certainly a necessary step in that we’re not capable of any spiritual growth without the power of the Holy Spirit and we receive the Holy Spirit upon our salvation. The point my teacher was…

  ..because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him…

  Many years ago my husband and his brother-in-law had a small construction company. They were carpenters but sometimes they would take a job to put on a new roof for someone because they needed the work. A couple of the men who worked for them had been brought up in the Catholic Church. Apparently…

  For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in…

1 Corinthians 13:4   I met some one new last weekend at the family event of a mutual friend. It was nice to get out and meet some new people but it was a little difficult to find the location. It was out in the country on rarely traveled roads. So, the common experience for…

  “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does…