"I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."

"His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent...

Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.

Brothers,[and sisters] if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness.

Thanksgiving does not flow from what we have or the things we do.

Thanksgiving flows from knowing God and what He has done for us.

Most of us would prefer to conceal the more scandalous events and notorious people in our family trees, however, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit Matthew does not show Jesus this curtesy - WHY NOT?

As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing...