Resurrection faith

Afraid of dying though I never lived

Afraid of living until I died

Caught in the embrace of death

Caught in living without life

In dying I discovered real life

In dying I lost fear of death

To become alive I had to die

To become me God gave life

I walked the hills enjoying life

I walked the hills without death

I lived waiting for my death

I lived and discovered life

Disease died and I found life

Disease and I together died

Now I live in spite of death

Now death is lost in life

October 15, 2006

October 22, 2025

“And I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD; the articles are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD God of your fathers.” (Ezra 8:28 NKJV)

The pastors are holy to God

The Altar is holy to God

All on the Altar is holy

Represent Jesus the holy

What has God offered to you today?

What offering does God desire from you?

From within we are destined to fall

We ourselves will be the end of all

To keep away we will build a wall

For primacy we destroy their wall

Our brokenness growing from the fall

Affects the hearts and minds of us all

To keep out invasion we build a wall

To keep others in we lift up a wall

Jesus came to lift us from the fall

He gave Himself to save us all

His truth will tear down a strong wall

With His love we won’t need a wall

October 8, 2006

October 21, 2025

“and weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the articles, the offering for the house of our God which the king and his counselors and his princes, and all Israel who were present, had offered.” (Ezra 8:25 NKJV)

What is offered to God

is offered to ministers

A part supports pastors

so can offer the Word

What has God offered to you today?

What offering does God desire from you?

Planes fly into towers

Hate and evil rejoice

Death of thousands

Hate and evil rejoice

Firefighters die helping

Love and good reaches out

Police officers offer lives

Love and good reaches out

Ambulances lined up – empty

But hope does not – cannot die

Buildings fall creating tombs

But hope does not – cannot die

Where were you September 11^th

Remember fear and hate's price

How did you feel and react

Remember fear and hate's price

September 11, 2025

October 20, 2025

“and whereas all the silver and gold that you may find in all the province of Babylon, along with the freewill offering of the people and the priests, are to be freely offered for the house of their God in Jerusalem—” (Ezra 7:16 NKJV)

All we have is from God

So we are to offer 10 percent

Beyond is a freewill offering

Honoring God Who gives all

What has God offered to you today?

What offering does God desire from you?

You can't murder good

They should have learned

The murder of Jesus shows

Murder gave Christ's blood

His blood made people whole

The Church bled and died

“The blood of the martyrs

are the seed of the Church”

Everyday Christians die

Their shed blood sowing seeds

They are tortured, killed

Children stolen from them

Women and children raped

Imprisoned and enslaved

They suffer for God and hope

So others can have that hope

Eternal hope from God's blood

Eternal hope with their blood

Pray for the martyrs today

Pray for them everyday

They are not only far away

Maybe will be me some day

Maybe will be you some day

(Written the day after Charlie Kirk was murdered. September 10, 2025)