Precious church

of our glorious

Lord and Savior

Jesus Christ,

just love and

give grace.

Just love and

give grace.

Just love

and give grace.

Just love

and give grace.

To truly, sincerely, authentically, believably,

generously, gently stand, receive and give the

lavish,ever-flowing, ceaseless golden embrace

of grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, procured for us

by the Cross of Christ is a call from our Triune God

to live in the divinity of our Savior’s  grace-filled identity.

As we through the power of the Holy Spirit are taught to die

to self, we must learn that what we have freely received,

we must freely,lovingly, joyfully, and compassionately give.

For when we cannot give joyfully and freely what we have so

lovingly received from Christ our Savior weeps, and we as

privileged and royal children of the King of Kings should be weeping too.

When a child of

the King of Kings

is mocked, ahhh

then you mock

Jesus Christ, Himself.

When a child of

the King of Kings

is derailed, ahh

then you derail

Jesus Christ, Himself.

When a child of the

King of Kings is

humiliated, shamed

presented as something

they are not ahhhh,

then you do all of this

to Jesus Christ, Himself.

There is no better place to

be then to be in the tender

care of our Shepherd ,warrior

Father and friend for He will deliver us,

set our timid feet on the diamond

rock of Jesus Christ and fight

our each and every battle and

foe that would dare come against

a royal child of the Kings of Kings!

Father my humble

gift to you for all that

you have done for me

is the gift of a passionate

heart and a ready pen to

paint with Christ- given,

Cross- given eyes of

faith all that thou art!

When we are disappointed by life, may we divinely, victoriously and

joyfully realize we are just Heavenly pilgrims just a passing thorough!

May we be

sensitive to

Jesus Christ,

Living Lord

of the entire

universe not to

the ememies

worldly system

or to carnal self!

God is love.

God is truth.

And so we

speak the

truth in love.

For love

without truth

is deceptive.

And truth

without love

can become

a legalistic,

prideful cruelty and

often times lacks our

Savior’s precious gift of grace!

Such a delicate theological balance

between truth, grace, and love.

May  our precious and tender

Triune God give us

the proper measure

of love, grace, and truth

so that we may boldly

stand, proclaim, defend

and live out Christ’s gifts of

truth, love, mercy,

grace, and forgiveness

that we as sinners have

all so mercifully received!

May we not hide salvation’s gift!

May we as the redeemed  children

of the King of Kings be joyfully

willing  to proudly, unashamedly

and boldy proclaim to all the gospel news,

“I am a sinner redeemed by the

precious blood of the Lamb!”

Precious believer

of the Triune God,

jubilantly rejoice

for our majestic Savior

Redeemer of the world,

King of Kings and

Lord of Lord defines

us no one else!

For we are all sinners

in need of a Savior

in need of a Cross!

No one can define us

but Jesus Himself!

The more we study Christ

ahhh one realizes there

is no room for the crawling

insidious snake of pride!

Forgive us Lord!

The more we study Christ

ahhh one realizes pride

can be very subtle.

Forgive us Lord!

The more we study Christ,

ahh one realizes pride

will never help us to know

or grow in Christ even more!

For pride is such an impediment to the

loving growth and  spiritual formation

of Jesus Christ in our lives and souls!

Forgive us Lord!

Help us to really see our own

pride in the depths of our souls!

Forgive us Lord!

Fill us with the Spirit given

fruit of Christ sourced humility!

Forgive us and fill us Lord

with all that you are and

empty us of rationalizing

our carnal and sinful self.

Forgive us Lord !

What does it look like to be secularized?

The name of Jesus Christ is banned from the public square!

What does it look like to be secularized?

The Holy divine word of God is marginalized, minimized, and rationalized.

What does it look like to be secularized?

When our God’s Holy ways, the Holy commandments, and His word

are mocked, denied, and not lived out through our ultimate source

the power of the Cross of Jesus Christ.

What does it look like to be secularized?

We separate ourselves from Christ and live like the world and not like Jesus did!

For such a time as this, Children of the Heavenly King, may we take a stand

like Daniel, Esther, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Joseph, Elijah and

refuse to bend our knee to anything or anyone but Jesus Christ our Lord!

What does it look to be secularized precious church of Jesus Christ?

I think we are sadly there! And I think our Savior, weeps!