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Elmer L. Towns Quote

Posted on August 12, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Just as my mother reminded me to live up to the reputation of my family name, we all need to be reminded to live up to the reputation of of the name of Jesus.

From Philippians 2:9-10: “Therefore God exalted Him even more highly and gave Him the name that is above every other name, so that at the name given to Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.”

Elmer L. Towns (born 1932) is an American pastor and Christian writer. Along with Jerry Falwell, he co-founded Liberty University in 1971.

Together as One

Posted on June 16, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Deuteronomy 5:12-14: “Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work.”

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Keeping His Sabbath Holy

Cherishing God’s blessed day

Strengthening our faith journey

Worshipping Commandments’ way

Submitting to Father’s way

Following His righteous road

Rescuing us from darkness

Relieving our burden’s load

Supplanting with mercy’s load

Praising Resurrection’s flight

Proclaiming Jesus as Lord

Allowing in grace-filled light

Trusting faith’s heavenly light

Walking daily with God’s Son

Shining His mercy upon

Stepping boldly now as one

Joining together as one

Sowing forgiveness of sin

Healing our relationships

Hearing Christ’s spirit within

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From 2 Corinthians 4:5-6: “For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’s sake. For it is the God who said, ‘Light will shine out of darkness,’ who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”

John Gibson Paton Quote

Posted on September 8, 2023 by bigskybuckeye

I shall never taste a deeper bliss, till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus himself.

From Revelation 22:3-4: “Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His servants will worship Him; they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.”

John Gibson Paton (1824-1907) was a Scottish-born Christian missionary who lived and served the Lord in the South Pacific.

Praising God’s Greatness

Posted on July 9, 2023 by bigskybuckeye

From Psalm 145:8: “The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.”

Blessing forever, God above

Kneeling, bending every knee

Praising His greatness, Amen!

Justice sown from righteous decrees

Breathing with hope’s newfound freedom

Witnessing God’s mighty moves

Praising daily in worship

Mercy arrives, His Son approves

Riding donkey, comes humble King

Tasting His merciful grace

Praising faith’s new covenant

Heaven’s goodness, let all embrace

Commanding nations, take notice

Setting every sinner free

Praising repeal of darkness

Throughout earth’s many lands and seas

Sounding faith’s endless trumpet

Protecting with blessed light

Praising God’s lasting greatness

Eternal daylight covers night

From Zechariah 9:16: “On that day the Lord their God will save them, for they are the flock of His people, for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on His land.”

Bold Journey

Posted on June 7, 2023 by bigskybuckeye

From 2 Timothy 1:7: “For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.”

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Showing gratitude, filled with praise

Daily worship focuses mind

Setting aside time for prayer

Bold journey’s mercy, never blind

Sharing devout faith with others

Treasured gift from Holy God’s hands

Serving with kindness, filled with joy

Bold journey follows His commands

Witnessing morning, Lord alive!

Death abolished, new life begins

Revealing eternity’s road

Bold journey sheds dark life of sin

Dying with Christ, now born again

Redemption drinks from blessed well

Enduring faithfulness shines bright

Bold journey freed from chains of hell

Teaching others from Lord’s Gospel

Strength received from His daily grace

Suffering shared, soldiers of Christ

Bold journey meets in Heaven’s place

From 2 Timothy 2:11-13: “The saying is sure: If we have died with Him, we will also live with Him; if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us; if we are faithless, He remains faithful—He cannot deny himself.”

Monday Memories: Worship and Praise

Posted on June 5, 2023 by bigskybuckeye

From John 4:23-24: [Jesus is speaking] “But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship Him. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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Praising with faith the Sabbath, the Lord’s Day

But, our lives needing to connect in other ways

Worshipping each day, receiving God’s serenity

Setting aside daily moments, faithful identity

Reading Scripture from the Lord’s Holy Word

Praying, praising, giving thanks—voices heard

Coming to the Lord with sincere-filled thoughts

Spending time with Him, connecting life’s dots

Sowing seeds of worship and praise with our God

Transforming by His love, perfect and unflawed

Reaping abounding harvest, singing with gladness

Witnessing God’s sacred harmony, never sadness

Filling our hungry hearts, opening up our minds

Listening to our Lord, He comes and truly finds

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From American pastor and Christian author, A. W. Tozer: “If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not really worship Him on one day a week.”

Originally published March, 2020.

God Will Provide

Posted on May 17, 2023 by bigskybuckeye

From Philippians 4:19: “And my God will fully satisfy every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”

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Looking to Almighty God

Reigning over His creation

Following His guiding rod

Praying without cessation

Seeing that God will provide

Nourishing Word filled with grace

Sending Spirit, as our guide

Blessing man, follow His pace

Witnessing divine kindness

Offering daily praises

Removing sinful blindness

Navigating life’s mazes

Kneeling under mercy’s hand

Worshipping our Risen Lord

Escaping evil’s quicksand

Vanquishing enemy’s sword

Obeying Holy One’s voice

Standing always as faith’s rock

Providing life’s better choice

Trusting in heaven’s crosswalk

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From Psalm 34:10: “The young lions suffer want and hunger, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.”

William Tyndale Quote

Posted on May 1, 2023 by bigskybuckeye

To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

From Deuteronomy 5:8: “You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.”

William Tyndale (c. 1494 – c.1536) was an English Biblical scholar and linguist. He became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation, and his writings were influenced by the thoughts shared from fellow reformer Martin Luther.

Choosing to Worship

Posted on April 16, 2023 by bigskybuckeye

From Matthew 4:10: “Then Jesus said to him, Away with you, Satan! for it is written, ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him.'”

Choosing to worship

Searching wrong places

Feeding soul more lies

Filling dark spaces

Choosing to worship

Searching earth’s treasures

Finding temptation

Offering pleasures

Choosing to worship

Searching for false gods

Yielding more sorrow

Seeing only frauds

Choosing to worship

Searching for new plan

Reading Scripture’s truth

Hearing Son of Man

Choosing to worship

Searching new measures

Praying to Father

Seeing His treasures

Choosing to worship

Searching for true joy

Discovering peace

Riding God’s convoy

From Psalm 100:1-2: “Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness; come into His presence with singing.”

Hallowed Connections (Elfchen Series #128)

Posted on November 25, 2022 by bigskybuckeye

Thankfulness

Praising

Heavenly Father

Quenching our thirst

Thoughts filled with gratitude

Thanksgiving

Devotion

Feeling

Every blessing

Receiving God’s Word

With songs of praise

Worship

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Confidence

Trusting

Christ filling

Love’s grateful hearts

With His lasting hope

Grace

This series of poems (written in the German-inspired style of Elfchen or Elevenie) shares a total of eleven words in each poem, with a sequence by line of one, two, three, four, and one words.

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Thankfulness

Devotion

Confidence

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