equipping the saints for the work of ministry – ephesians 4:12
I first wrote about the submariner that I knew as Dennis, who was like a big brother to me, many years before I ever wrote a Memorial Day Tribute. It was, possibly, the first time I ever wrote a poem.
The Body of Christ, the Christian Church that began with 11 Jewish men and other Jewish disciples — empowered by Holy Spirit — had better, as one, condemn this latest act of hatred and anti-Semitism.
As a Salvation Army office, my mom encountered a lot of broken humanity herself. But with all that, she seemed the epitome of the verse in James 1 that talks about keeping oneself “unspotted by the world.”
There are some wonderful Easter hymns that don’t get sung as much as the old standbys like the one above and “Up from the Grave He Arose.” One such hymn is “Look, ye saints! The sight is glorious,” by Thomas Kelly.