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Monday Memories: Our Father’s Goodness

Posted on November 10, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

From 2 Peter 1:5-7: “For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.”

Our Father’s goodness

Glory, God and King

Bless and praise His name

Mighty greatness sings

Through generations

Honor His great deeds

Infinite wisdom

God’s faithful Word leads

Glorious splendor

Kingdom never ends

Eternal, Holy

Wondrous works, God sends

From Psalm 145:8-9: The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. The Lord is good to all, and His compassion is over all that He has made.”

His greatness declares

Lord everlasting

Praising righteousness

Mercies broadcasting

Cries, our Father hears

From darkness, redeemed

He stands, always near

God’s goodness, esteemed

Truth, call upon God

Grace, freely given

Love, witness a Cross

Sins, now forgiven

From the words of American pastor and Christian author, Charles Swindoll: “There are four words I wish we would never forget, and they are ‘God keeps His word.'”

Faith’s Vision

Posted on November 2, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

From Luke 17:5-6: “The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith!’ The Lord replied, ‘If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.'”

Remaining at life’s station

Waiting, always watching

Living with righteousness

Faith’s vision of salvation

Trusting in hope’s fortitude

Adopting God’s patience

Committing to His ways

Faith in Him shall be renewed

Believing in Savior’s grace

Facing life’s rising tides

Revealing light to come

Faith rekindled to embrace

Repenting of sinful ways

Floundering no longer

Accepting forgiveness

Faith powering up each day

Pulsating heart filled with joy

Hearing God’s truthful voice

Witnessing through Christ’s love

Faith gathers peace to deploy

English hymnwriter and theologian, Frederick William Faber (1814-1863), wrote the hymn “Faith of Our Fathers” in 1847. The lyrics reflect upon an inspiring vision of faith at work.

Hope’s Redeeming Place

Posted on October 22, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

From 2 Thessalonians 3:3-5: “But the Lord is faithful; He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you are doing and will go on doing the things that we command. May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.”

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Embracing Gospel’s light

Strengthened through trust in our Lord

Faith’s destiny secure

Longing for Heaven’s reward

Proclaiming Scripture’s truth

Encouraged to follow Christ

Faith’s lasting breath fulfilled

Paying with blood sacrificed

Kneeling now in prayer

Dispirited no longer

Presence of light in Christ

Enduring faith grows stronger

Witnessing faithfulness

Redeemed through Good Shepherd’s love

Forgiveness rises up

Transforming saints from above

Setting sun blest with peace

Heartened faith savors Lord’s grace

Confidence fills with joy

Trusting hope’s redeeming place

From Romans 12:12: “Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; persevere in prayer.”

Monday Memories: Life’s New Page

Posted on October 20, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

From Ephesians 4:31-32: “Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.”

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Life’s battered bucket sometimes overflows

Facing daily challenges, too immense

One challenge standing apart from the rest

Using forgiveness seems much too intense

Our righteous Father teaches forgiveness

Extending His mercy through earnest hearts

Breathe every truth in its entirety

Receiving His grace with humble hearts

Take in God’s Word, His Holy Commandments

Burying bitterness, it lifts the heart

Always best to forgive, forget, move on

Beating with freedom’s light, opens the heart

As humans, reacting much too quickly

Expressing heated anger, fixing blame

Slow to forgive, even more to forget

Stepping now with humbleness, drowns the flames

No longer in the enemy’s darkness

Praying the sun does not set on one’s rage

With our Lord’s truth, filling with righteousness

Following God’s way, life writes a new page

From the words of American pastor and Christian author, Jim Cymbala: “Looking back over my life, all I can see is mercy and grace written in large letters everywhere. May God help me have the same kind of heart toward those who wound or offend me.”

Originally published July, 2020.

Charles Swindoll Quote

Posted on October 20, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

Ask God. Trust God. We are completely dependent on Him for eternal life, for forgiveness, for character, for security.

From Hebrews 6:19-20: “We have this hope, a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters the inner shrine behind the curtain, where Jesus, a forerunner on our behalf, has entered, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”

Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.

Fullness of Joy

Posted on October 12, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

From Psalm 5:11-12: “But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever sing for joy. Spread Your protection over them, so that those who love Your name may exult in You. For You bless the righteous, O Lord; You cover them with favor as with a shield.”

Spirit infuses Scripture with God’s joy

Rejoice in His masterpiece of each day

Nourished with grace, forwarded to enjoy

Always Holy, shall be His fruitful ways

From heart’s depths, God composes grace with joy

Righteousness forever breathes from above

Mercy descends in Savior He deploys

Forgiveness rebuilds empty faith through love

God’s blessings harvest His fullness of joy

Truth’s timely interactions, never gray

Promises of faithfulness He employs

Gateway of grace received, let all now pray

Salvation’s light transforms darkness of sin

Joy praises covenant of faith’s linchpin

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From Psalm 16:11: “You show me the path of life. In Your presence there is fullness of joy; in Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”

Faith’s Quiet Place

Posted on September 17, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

From Ephesians 5:15-17: “Be careful, then, how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”

New day dawning

Precious minutes to embrace

Gifted from Father above

Faith’s quiet place

Use time wisely

Journey inside Father’s will

Based upon righteous living

Grace shall refill

Trust built daily

Immersed in His divine Word

Blessed worship with Father

His peace transferred

Sunrise prayer

Father fills heart with His love

Steps made by faith, not by sight

Truth reigns above

Hope comes forward

Filled with each forgiving breath

Accountable to Father

Light over death

From 2 Corinthians 5:6-7: “So we are always confident, even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord—for we walk by faith, not by sight.”

Fruitful Grace

Posted on September 10, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

From 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12: “To this end we always pray for you, asking that our God will make you worthy of His call and will fulfill by His power every good resolve and work of faith, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Holy shall be Father’s name

His grace praises morning sky

Walking life’s highway with Him

Prayer becomes faith’s reply

Righteousness fills Father’s Word

Fortified with fruitful grace

Embracing mercy’s outreach

Faith follows heavenly pace

Grace bears truth from Father’s light

Savior rises just as planned

Washing away sin’s darkness

Faith’s cornerstone henceforth stands

Love expressed in Father’s faith

Grace bequeathed in His Son’s name

Kneeling at Calvary’s cross

Forgiveness erases shame

Faith cherishes Father’s grace

Love fills hearts of every saint

Bringing glory in His name

Forever bright, never faint

From 2 Timothy 2:19: “But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this inscription: ‘The Lord knows those who are His,’ and, ‘Let everyone who calls on the name of the Lord turn away from wickedness.'”

Journey of Hope (Elfchen Series #264)

Posted on August 29, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

Forgiveness

Stumbling

Through darkness

Sin’s fading shadow

Witnessing light at Calvary

Rising

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Truthfulness

Rising

Morning’s faithfulness

Father shares blessings

Word nourished with prayer

Leading

Resilient

Leading

With righteousness

Shepherd’s steady voice

Bringing to tranquil waters

Trusting

Called to Forgive

Posted on August 27, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

From Ephesians 4:31-32: “Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.”

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Faith filled with truth from Father

Anger rests with setting sun

Leaving quicksand’s bitterness

Forgiven through mercy’s Son

Eyes upon Calvary’s cross

Ultimate action of grace

Forgiven through Savior’s blood

His love takes sin’s former place

We, too, are called to forgive

Ourselves as well as others

Casting aside emotions

Now loving one another

Holding back words of darkness

Kindness leads each blessed day

Forgiving as Christ forgives

Holy Spirit leads faith’s way

Walking in shadow of grace

Forgiveness mends one more heart

Embracing love’s character

Trust in hope’s renewing start

From the words of American pastor and Christian author, Max Lucado: “Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter.”

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