Author Archives: Pastor Darvin

Ezekiel 36:26 (NIV) I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

1 Corinthians 12:27 (NIV)   Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

Psalm 139:14 (ESV)  I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 1 Corinthians 3:16 (NIV)  Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Psalm 51:17 (NIV)  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Hebrews 13:5 (NIV)   Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough … Continue reading →

Psalm 37:16 (NIV)  Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked.  ‘Tis better to be lowly born,  And range with humble lives in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.   —  William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Edythe Draper, … Continue reading →

Proverbs 4:19 (NIV) But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble. A spirituality that preaches resignation under official brutalities, servile acquiescence in frustration and sterility, and total submission to organized injustice is one which has lost interest in holiness and … Continue reading →

2 Corinthians 5:10 (NIV)  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by … Continue reading →

Psalm 55:17 (NIV)  Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice. God has not always answered my prayers. If he had, I would have married the wrong man—several times! — Ruth Bell Graham Edythe Draper, Draper’s Book of Quotations for the Christian World, (Wheaton, … Continue reading →

Romans 12:12 (NIV)  Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. “O God, stay with me; let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is … Continue reading →