Why should I feel discouraged?Why should the shadows come?Why should my heart feel lonely,And long for heaven and home? When Jesus is my portion,A constant friend is He.His eye is on the sparrow,And I know He watches me.– Civilla Martin...
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Jesus Confirmed
“Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse,And a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him,The spirit of wisdom and understanding,The spirit of counsel and strength,The spirit of knowledge and...
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Knowing Jesus
My sweet Lord, My Lord.I really want to see you.Really want to be with you.Really want to see you, Lord,But it takes so long, my Lord.My sweet Lord. My Lord, My Lord.I really want to know you.Really want to go...
Read MoreThe Death Experience (Part I)
Why should I feel discouraged?Why should the shadows come?Why should my heart feel lonely,And long for heaven and home? When Jesus is my portion,A constant friend is He.His eye is on the sparrow,And I...
Read MoreJesus Confirmed
“Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse,And a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him,The spirit of wisdom and understanding,The spirit of counsel...
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Knowing Jesus
My sweet Lord, My Lord.I really want to see you.Really want to be with you.Really want to see you, Lord,But it takes so long, my Lord.My sweet Lord. My Lord, My Lord.I really want...
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Whose Christianity?
I paused to watch a darting speck That flickered in the yellow breeze And came to taste my daisy bed And touched with gold my lazy trees And blessed all I had done. And though I had to turn my...
Read More“My Commandment” (Part II)
Jesus calls us o’er the tumult of our life’s wild restless sea;day by day his voice still calls us saying, ‘Christian, follow me.’As of old Saint Andrew heard it by the Galilean lake,turned from home and work and kindred, leaving...
Read More“My Commandment” (Part I)
Day by day, Day by day,Oh, Dear Lord,Three things I pray.To see thee more clearly,Love thee more dearly,Follow thee more nearly,Day by day.– John-Michael Tebelak (1949-1985) & Stephen Lawrence Schwartz from “Day by Day” (1970) Preparing the materials for teachingsbyjesus.com is...
Read MoreYou and God
(I come to the garden alone,While the dew is still on the roses.And the voice I hear, falling on my ear,The Son of God discloses.And He walks with me,And He talks with me,And He tells me I am His own.And...
Read MoreBorn Today!
Joy to the world! The Lord is come.Let earth receive her King!Let every heart prepare Him room,And heaven and nature sing!And heaven and nature sing!And heaven, and heaven and nature sing!– Isaac Watts (1674-1748), from “Joy to the World” (1719)...
Read MoreGod or Man?
I don’t know how to love Him. What to do. How to move Him.I’ve been changed, yes really changed.In these past few days, when I’ve seen myself,I seem like someone else.I don’t know how to take this.I don’t see why...
Read MoreFear’s Ghastly Harvest
Nobody knows the trouble I’ve been through.Nobody knows my sorrow.Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen.Glory hallelujah!Sometimes I’m up, sometimes I’m down.Oh, yes, Lord!Sometimes I’m almost to the ground.Oh, yes, Lord.– From “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Had” in Slave Songs of...
Read MoreReligionism vs. Materialism
I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky.I think about it every night and day.Spread my wings and fly away.I believe I can soar. I see me running through that open door!I believe I can fly,...
Read MoreFishers of People
The road is long, with many a winding turnThat leads us to who knows where, who knows when.But I’m strong, strong enough to carry him.He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.… So on we go. His welfare is of my concern.No...
Read MoreSeeking Reality
To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe,To bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go.To right the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from afar,To try...
Read MoreWhat If Jesus Is Right?
Climb every mountain, Search high and low,Follow every byway, Every path you know.Climb every mountain, Ford every stream,Follow every rainbow, ‘Til you find your dream.A dream that will need All the love you can...
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Building on a Rock
This land is mine.God gave this land to me.This brave and ancient land to me.And when the morning sunReveals her hills and plains,Then I see a landWhere children can run free.So take my handAnd...
Read MoreThe Death Experience (Part II)
The Lord is my shepherd. I lack nothing.He makes me lie down in green pastures,He leads me beside quiet waters, He refreshes my soul.He guides me along the right paths for His name’s sake.Even though I walk through the...
Read MoreApologetics
Oh Lord, my God, When I, in awesome wonderConsider all the worlds Thy hands have made.I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder.Thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, my...
Read MoreNow It Begins
I come to the garden alone, While the dew is still on the roses. And the voice I hear, falling on my ear, The Son of God discloses. And He walks with me. And...
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