Although I find joy in all areas of photography, I am completly taken when I have the opportunity to photograph birth! First moments of breath! The strength devotion and love of a mother! Unity support and love of a father. The first cry. Gods creation. Thursday, August 31, 2017
Birth Photography
Although I find joy in all areas of photography, I am completly taken when I have the opportunity to photograph birth! First moments of breath! The strength devotion and love of a mother! Unity support and love of a father. The first cry. Gods creation. Friday, August 31, 2012
Baseball~
The full summer is just about to pass us. Here are some photos of Little Man's big All-Stars weekend earlier this summer~ We sure do have a baseball man on our hands. It is all him, he is just a natural!
Prayer for Life
Prayer for Pro-Life LORD, through the Holy Spirit Mary brought forth the Baby Jesus. We bring forth your creation of human life that we may live in Your image. Protect the innocent babies so mercilessly being murdered by abortion. Give us courage to oppose those who peddle death for profit and convenience. In Your Name. Amen.
Prayer for Respect for all Human Life Heavenly Father, your cosmic gaze focused on dust and you fashioned in your image and likeness every man and women: give us, we beg you, a keen eye to recognize that image so that respect for all human life becomes our way of life. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen. Committee for Pro-Life Activities National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Short Prayers For Unborn Children *Heavenly Father, we the living request your help for the unborn. *Holy Mary, pray for us sinners, save our unborn infants from abortion. *Lord, we pray for all mankind to have the grace to understand that each and every life has the right-to-life. Most Rev. Loius E. Gelineau, D.D. Bishop of Providence
Trust Him Trust Him when dark doubts assail thee. Trust Him when thy strength is small. Trust Him when to simply trust Him seems the hardest thing of all. Trust Him, He is ever faithful; Trust Him, for His will is best; Trust Him, for the Heart of Jesus is the only place of rest. Trust Him, then, through doubts and sunshine, All thy cares upon Him cast,Till the storm of life is over , And the trusting days are past.
Prayer for Unborn Children O God, our Heavenly Father, You sent Your Son into this world that He might Bless and Consecrate all life to You. Your constant Love protected Him as the Ever Virgin Mary bore Him in Her womb for nine months. In His mission He taught us the Greatness of Your Love and the Sanctity of Life. We pray that we may always cherish the Life that You give us. In a special way we ask and pray that You Grace and Protect all unborn children with Your ever caring Love. We pray this in the Name of Jesus, Who is Lord, Forever and Ever. Amen. Most Rev. Louis E. Gelineau, D.D. Bishop of Providence
Prayer for Respect for all Human Life Heavenly Father, your cosmic gaze focused on dust and you fashioned in your image and likeness every man and women: give us, we beg you, a keen eye to recognize that image so that respect for all human life becomes our way of life. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen. Committee for Pro-Life Activities National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Short Prayers For Unborn Children *Heavenly Father, we the living request your help for the unborn. *Holy Mary, pray for us sinners, save our unborn infants from abortion. *Lord, we pray for all mankind to have the grace to understand that each and every life has the right-to-life. Most Rev. Loius E. Gelineau, D.D. Bishop of Providence
Trust Him Trust Him when dark doubts assail thee. Trust Him when thy strength is small. Trust Him when to simply trust Him seems the hardest thing of all. Trust Him, He is ever faithful; Trust Him, for His will is best; Trust Him, for the Heart of Jesus is the only place of rest. Trust Him, then, through doubts and sunshine, All thy cares upon Him cast,Till the storm of life is over , And the trusting days are past.
Prayer for Unborn Children O God, our Heavenly Father, You sent Your Son into this world that He might Bless and Consecrate all life to You. Your constant Love protected Him as the Ever Virgin Mary bore Him in Her womb for nine months. In His mission He taught us the Greatness of Your Love and the Sanctity of Life. We pray that we may always cherish the Life that You give us. In a special way we ask and pray that You Grace and Protect all unborn children with Your ever caring Love. We pray this in the Name of Jesus, Who is Lord, Forever and Ever. Amen. Most Rev. Louis E. Gelineau, D.D. Bishop of Providence
Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 22:16 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,Mark 16:16 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.Romans 6:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.Matthew 28:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,John 3:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.Acts 2:41 ESV / 15 helpful votes
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.Matthew 3:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.Colossians 2:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.Acts 11:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’Acts 1:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”Matthew 3:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;Ephesians 4:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,Galatians 3:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.Romans 6:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?Acts 19:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.”John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.1 Peter 3:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,1 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,Acts 8:36-38 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.John 4:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),John 4:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than JohnJohn 3:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.John 1:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes
I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’Mark 1:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.Romans 6:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.Acts 9:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized;Acts 8:38 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.Acts 1:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.”John 3:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptizedTitus 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,1 Corinthians 15:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?1 Corinthians 1:13-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name. (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.) For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.Acts 19:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.Acts 19:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”Acts 10:47-48 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.Acts 10:44-48 ESV / 4 helpful votes
While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared, “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.Acts 8:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”Mark 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”Matthew 3:13-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...2 Kings 5:10-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.” But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage. But his servants came near and said to him, “My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...1 John 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,1 Peter 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,James 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.Titus 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,Ephesians 5:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.Romans 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?Acts 19:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John's baptism.”Acts 18:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.Acts 18:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.Acts 16:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.Acts 16:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.Acts 16:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.Acts 11:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.Acts 10:48 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.Acts 10:47 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”Acts 10:46-48 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared, “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.Acts 10:45 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.Acts 10:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.Acts 10:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.Acts 10:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
You yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed:Acts 8:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.Acts 8:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.Acts 8:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed.Acts 8:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...Acts 2:1-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.John 10:40 ESV / 3 helpful votes
He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.John 1:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.John 1:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.”John 1:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.John 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,John 1:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”Luke 24:49 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”Luke 20:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?”Luke 13:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.Luke 7:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)Luke 7:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
(When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,Luke 3:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”Luke 3:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened,Luke 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.Luke 3:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”Luke 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.Luke 3:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?Mark 16:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.Mark 11:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Answer me.”Mark 1:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.Mark 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.Matthew 21:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?” And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’Zechariah 12:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.Joel 2:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit.Joel 2:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.Ezekiel 18:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.Isaiah 44:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.Numbers 8:10-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When you bring the Levites before the Lord, the people of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites, and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the people of Israel, that they may do the service of the Lord. Then the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the Lord to make atonement for the Levites.Exodus 30:17-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The Lord said to Moses, “You shall also make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it, with which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet. When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn a food offering to the Lord, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die.James 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!James 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.Hebrews 11:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.Hebrews 9:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.2 Timothy 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.Colossians 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.Ephesians 4:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,1 Corinthians 10:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.Romans 8:9-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.Romans 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?Acts 19:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.Acts 8:35-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.Acts 8:14-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,Acts 2:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.John 8:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”John 1:19-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” ...Mark 16:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.Matthew 7:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.Matthew 3:13-17
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”Matthew 3:8
Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.Matthew 3:5-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then 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. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.Matthew 3:1-11
In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’” Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, ...Leviticus 16:4
He shall put on the holy linen coat and shall have the linen undergarment on his body, and he shall tie the linen sash around his waist, and wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water and then put them on.
Birthdays are a great time to remember God's amazing creation. You are one of the best I know! Happy birthday to the handsome-est, funnest, loyalest, bestest hubby-est
For the handsome-est, smartest, hunkiest, and best-est husband in the world, no gift could ever compare to a prayer I made of thankfulness and happiness I made to God today. Wishing you a very Happy Birthday sweetheart.
It's easy to see that your birth is part of God's master plan. He is using you for a great purpose. Wishing you a great birthday in His love
On
this special day, I make a promise that we will grow old together gracefully and
watch the sunset of our lives with our hands held, eyes locked and lips sealed.
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday!
I
can't imagine passing one moment of my life without you
I can't imagine living my dreams without you
I can't imagine going into anyone's arms for peace but yours
What would I have done if you weren't born on this lovely day many years ago?
I love you.
Happy Birthday to my dear husband.
I can't imagine living my dreams without you
I can't imagine going into anyone's arms for peace but yours
What would I have done if you weren't born on this lovely day many years ago?
I love you.
Happy Birthday to my dear husband.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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