“He [Jesus] must increase, but I [John the Baptist] must decrease. He [Jesus] that is come from on high, is above all: he [John] that is of the earth, is of the earth, and speaketh of the earth: he that is come from heaven, is above all” (John 3:30, 31 [1587 Geneva Version]). Father, John the Baptist had a purpose and […]
View MoreCan you guess which girl is Claire? “Sincerely Claire”, published in 2020, is a continuation of the Claire series. This book is an actual setting when our family came back to the stagecoach house my dad had bought. We lived on 99 acres with a mountain. Claire in this story starts junior high, where this […]
View MoreAn incident happened to me when I was ten and haunted me into adulthood. Our family’s life was forever altered as well as my own soul. At the age of 35, I sensed a tug to write about what happened for my own sake and for young people whose lives were changed in a defining […]
View More“John answered, and said, ‘A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. Ye your selves are my witnesses, that I said, I am not that Christ, but that I am sent before him. He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth […]
View More“Then there arose a question between John’s disciples and the Jews, about purifying. And they came unto John, and said unto him, ‘Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jorden, to whom thou barest witness, behold, he baptizes, and all men come to him’” (John 3:25, 26 [1587 Geneva Version]). Father, some of us have heard […]
View More“John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized (for John had not yet been put in prison)” (John 3:23, 24 [1587 Geneva Version]). Father, You make it plain here that when one is baptized it is a dunking into the water. Thank You for […]
View More“After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing” (John 3:22 [1587 Geneva Version]). Father, Your Son is God come down from heaven to take away the sins of those who believe and trust in You. In Christ’s holy name we are joyful. Hallelujah~
View More“For every man that evil doeth [does], hateth [hates] the light, neither comes to light, least his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth, comes to the light, that his deeds might be made manifest [apparent], that they are wrought [carried out] according to God” (John 3:20, 21 [1587 Geneva Version]). Father, we long to please you in our […]
View More“He that believes in him, is not condemned: but he that believes not, is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the Name of that only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that that light came into the world, and men loved darkness rather then that light, because their deeds were evil” (John […]
View More“For God sent not his Son into the world, that he should condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved” (John 3:17 [1587 Geneva Version]). Father, help us to never forget Who saves us from being lost forever. Christ was the perfect sacrifice, the lamb of God. In His holy name we […]
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