Try www.getyourcare.org
or www.lutheransforlife.org/article/gods-word-for-an-unplanned-pregnancy/
or www.focusonthefamily.com/pro-life/promos/tebow
for alternatives to Planned Parenthood. 

First pride, then the crash—the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.

(Proverbs 16:18 -- MSG)

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, ¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, ¹⁶ that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, ¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, ¹⁸ may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, ¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

(Ephesians 3:14-19 -- ESV)

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind but now I see!

The Lord has promised good to me,
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.



Through many dangers, toils, and snares
I have already come;
His grace has brought me safe so far,
His grace will see me home.

Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail
And mortal life shall cease,
Amazing grace shall then prevail
In heaven’s joy and peace.

(John Newton)

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. ¹⁶ Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. ¹⁷ And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

(Colossians 3:15-17 -- NIV)

God will put his angels in charge of you to protect you wherever you go.
(Psalm 91:11 -- GNT)

Christmas
in July . . .






















1. I know that my Redeemer lives;
What comfort this sweet sentence gives!
He lives, He lives, who once was dead;
He lives, my ever-living Head.

2. He lives triumphant from the grave,
He lives eternally to save,
He lives all-glorious in the sky,
He lives exalted there on high.

3. He lives to bless me with His love,
He lives to plead for me above.
He lives my hungry soul to feed,
He lives to help in time of need.

4. He lives to grant me rich supply,
He lives to guide me with His eye,
He lives to comfort me when faint,
He lives to hear my soul's complaint.

5. He lives to silence all my fears,
He lives to wipe away my tears
He lives to calm my troubled heart,
He lives all blessings to impart.

6. He lives, my kind, wise, heavenly Friend,
He lives and loves me to the end;
He lives, and while He lives, I'll sing;
He lives, my Prophet, Priest, and King.

7. He lives and grants me daily breath;
He lives, and I shall conquer death:
He lives my mansion to prepare;
He lives to bring me safely there.

8. He lives, all glory to His name!
He lives, my Jesus, still the same.
Oh, the sweet joy this sentence gives,
"I know that my Redeemer lives!"

(by Samuel Medley)

For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 

(1 Thessalonians 4:14 -- NIV)

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

(Genesis 1:1 -- NIV)

Steady plodding brings prosperity; hasty speculation brings poverty.
(Proverbs 21:5 -- TLB)

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

(John 3:16 -- NIV)

God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.

(Acts 17:27 -- NIV)

You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

(John 15:14-16 -- NIV)

When you pass through the waters,
    I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
    they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
    you will not be burned;
    the flames will not set you ablaze.

(Isaiah 43:2 -- NIV)

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. ² People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ⁴ treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power.  Have nothing to do with such people.

(2 Timothy 3:1-5 -- NIV)

Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, declares the Sovereign Lord.  Repent!  Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall.
(Ezekiel 18:30 -- NIV)

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.

(John 10:27-28 -- NIV)

“For myself, as no doubt for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation.  The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality.  We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.”

(Aldous Huxley, grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley who was Charles Darwin’s “bulldog”) 

 

 

Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. ³⁵ So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet:  "I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world."

(Matthew 13:34-35 -- NIV)

Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
(Genesis 5:24 -- NIV)

Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you;  he will never let the righteous be shaken.

(Psalm 55:22 -- NIV)

1 Come, you thankful people, come;
Raise the song of harvest home.
All is safely gathered in
Ere the winter storms begin.
God, our maker, does provide
For our wants to be supplied.
Come to God's own temple, come,
Raise the song of harvest home.

2 All the world is God's own field,
Fruit unto his praise to yield.
Wheat and tares together sown,
Unto joy or sorrow grown.
First the blade, and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear.
Lord of harvest, grant that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be.

3 For the Lord our God shall come
And shall take his harvest home.
From his field shall in that day
All offenses purge away,
Give his angels charge at last
In the fire the tares to cast,
But the fruitful ears to store
I his garner evermore.

4 Even so, Lord, quickly come
To your final harvest home.
Gather all your people in,
Free from sorrow,
free from sin,
There, forever purified,
In your garner to abide.
Come, with all your angels, come,
Raise the glorious harvest home!

(by Henry Alford)

Jesus, our high priest, is able to understand our weaknesses. When Jesus lived on earth, he was tempted in every way. He was tempted in the same ways we are tempted, but he never sinned.
(Hebrews 4:15 -- ERV)



Christ had no sin, but God made him become sin so that in Christ we could be right with God.
(2 Corinthians 5:21 -- ERV)

Happy Friday . . .

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. ¹⁴ But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."
(Matthew 7:13-14 -- NIV)

Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings!"
(Acts 5:29 -- NIV)

As dead flies give perfume a bad smell,
    so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
² The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
    but the heart of the fool to the left.
³ Even as fools walk along the road,
    they lack sense
    and show everyone how stupid they are.

(Ecclesiastes 10:1-3 -- NIV)

Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation we will proclaim your praise.

(Psalm 79:13 -- NIV)

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.


Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

(Francis Scott Key)

This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

(Psalm 118:24 -- KJV)

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.

(Psalm 18:29 -- NIV)

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole.  Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.
(Numbers 21:9 -- NIV)

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, ¹⁵ that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.
(John 3:14-15 -- NIV)