My Lord Will Always Provide

Posted on October 11, 2023 by Roger E. Bruner

[Here’s a recording of this song. A lead sheet is found here.]

God is my Creator, my Redeemer, my Sustainer.
He knows all of my needs and tends to them with Love.
Nothing’s too big or too hard for Him to help with.
God wants what’s best for me.
My Lord always provides.
My Lord will always provide.

About This Song

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Some of you already know that I haven’t written many new songs since  I began writing Christian novels. Not that I haven’t had the time or the desire, but I can’t simply decide it’s time to write a new song. I have to wait (and pray) for God to plant an idea in my heart.

At this stage of my life, He apparently prefers the new novels, and that’s okay. He’s the One I most want to use my my creativity to please.

A few years ago I was practicing one of my older songs, “When I Am Scared”. Even with changes I was making to the lyrics, it still didn’t seem right. I modified the lyrics some more, but one thing became more and more evident. The song seemed to go on forever and ever.

Although I eliminated one of the four stanzas, I felt compelled to add a refrain–or at least a bridge–to add a little variety. I don’t know which I struggled with more, the words or the tune, but what you see above is what I ended up with.

Although it would be pretty long for a refrain, it makes a catchy little chorus when used by itself. I not only catch myself singing it in the shower, I rarely miss a day of not singing it with my guitar. Since I enjoy it and find it so encouraging, I hope other people will, too. Feel free to watch a video of me doing it HERE.

I pray that it will bless you, too.

My two most recent novels are shown below and their pictures are links to the Amazon pages. The eighteen-book picture is a link to my Amazon Author Page. A new novel will be published soon.

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Roger

    

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Praise the Lord, Oh My Soul!

Posted on September 2, 2023 by Roger E. Bruner

Praise the Lord; how my heart sings!
Let my whole being praise Him.
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, oh my soul!

Bless the Lord; let my life sing
Of His great loving kindness.
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, oh my soul!

God forgives me for my sins
And heals all my diseases!
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, oh my soul!

Long He’s kept me from the grave;
His love and mercy clothe me!
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, oh my soul!

God provides such perfect gifts;
He helps us soar like eagles!
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, oh my soul!

About This Song:
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I have a lot of favorite songs among the several hundred I’ve written, but this is one of the most fun to sing and play. If you’re a musician, I highly recommend downloading and/or printing the lead sheet here. Note that the asterisks indicate a single hand clap. That can be tricky to do. I tap on the guitar with my fingertips rather than clap.

If you think this song sounds like something from the book of Psalms, you’ve hit the nail on the head. Check out Psalm 103:1-5…

1 Praise the Lord, my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the Lord, my soul,
and forget not all his benefits—
3 who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
(NIV)

As usual when I’m writing based on Scripture, the wording is apt to deviate from the Bible. But I do my best to keep the meaning intact.

I write Christian novels as well as songs. The two most recent ones are shown below and their pictures are links to the Amazon pages. The eighteen-book picture is a link to my Amazon Author Page.

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Roger

    

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Kiss My Hurting Heart

Posted on August 16, 2023 by Roger E. Bruner

(Listen to recording of this song HERE. A PDF of the free lead sheet is available HERE.)

Like a child who’s tripped and fallen down,
And he cries out for his mama’s help,
Still sobbing till she tends his wounds
And kisses all his hurts away,

So I find that I, too, sometimes fall
And I cry out for my Father’s help.
Lord, come and make things right once more
And kiss my hurting heart.

Kiss my hurting heart, Lord, kiss my hurting heart.
Make things right once more. Lord, kiss my hurting heart.

Like a child who’s wandered out of sight
And she cries out for her daddy’s help,
Still sobbing till he takes her hand
And kisses all her fears away.

So I find that I, too, often stray
And I cry out for my Father’s help
To come and put me on the path
And kiss my fearful heart.

Kiss my fearful heart, Lord, kiss my fearful heart.
Put me on the path. Lord, kiss my fearful heart.

Like a child who breaks his favorite toy,
And he cries out for his momma’s help,
Still sobbing till she fixes it
And kisses all his grief away,

So I find that I, too, often break
And I cry out for my Father’s help.
Lord, come and make things whole once more
And kiss my grieving heart.

Kiss my grieving heart, Lord, kiss my grieving heart.
Make things whole once more. Lord, kiss my grieving heart.

About This Song:
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When I was still working at the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, we had chapel services every Wednesday morning. One Wednesday, missionary couple David and Chanelle Acton presented a very moving devotional–one that inspired me to write this song.

One thing a good parent does is to kiss his or her children when they hurt. Perhaps it’s a physical injury. Or fear of being separated in a large store. Or grief over losing or breaking a favorite toy.

A good parent not only wants to make the child feel better, but to deal with hurts in the appropriate way. That may involve actually kissing a child’s boo boo, reaching out to assure a child that she’s safe, or making a valiant effort to repair a broken toy.

But God is the best Father of all, and when we’re hurting, He wants us to reach out to Him and ask Him to kiss our hurting hearts. But that requires us to have the humility and dependence of a child.

Are you willing to humble yourself and call out to Him that way in your times of need? How about leaving a comment?

I write Christian novels as well as songs. The two most recent ones are shown below and their pictures are links to the Amazon pages. The eighteen-book picture is a link to my Amazon Author Page.

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Roger

    

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The Flame that Never Goes Out

Posted on August 3, 2023 by Roger E. Bruner

[A free lead sheet of this song may be found here. You may listen to a recording here. Some of the lyrics may be different from these.)

God’s love is a flame that never goes out. (3x)
God’s flame never goes out, no,
God’s flame never goes out.

A match–once struck–very quickly dies down. (3x)
But God’s flame never goes out, no,
God’s flame never goes out.

A lighted candle soon expires. (3x)
But God’s flame never goes out, no,
God’s flame never goes out.

A fireplace burns till the wood is all gone. (3x)
But God’s flame never goes out, no,
God’s flame never goes out.

A lantern glows till its oil is all gone. (3x)
But God’s flame never goes out, no,
God’s flame never goes out.

The sun’ll keep shining till its gases give out. (3x)
But God’s flame never goes out, no,
God’s flame never goes out.

God’s love is a flame that never goes out. (3x)
God’s flame never goes out, no,
God’s flame never goes out

About This Song:

Every once in a rare while, a song or book idea comes to me in a dream, and this song is one of them.

I dreamed I was at a church business meeting when somebody passed around a disposable lighter with the Broadman (the old name for the no longer existent Lifeway Christian Stores) insignia on it. Apparently to consider as an advertising gimmick. As unlikely as Broadman was to use a tobacco-related item that way, it was equally out of place for consideration at a church business meeting. Definitely a strange dream.

When I woke up, though, I couldn’t help thinking about the temporary nature of a disposable lighter. It does its job–but only as long as the fluid lasts. God’s love never runs out, however–no matter how many people it touches or how often.

All I had to do was come up with a variety of flame- or light-producing items to contrast with the permanence and dependability of God’s love. The first four stanzas were the original ones. Years later I added the others.

This song isn’t complicated, but it’s both fun and (I believe) theologically accurate, even though it’s not as directly Scripture-based as many of my songs. It would make a good children’s song.

I write Christian novels as well as songs. The two most recent ones are shown below and their pictures are links to the Amazon pages. The eighteen-book picture is a link to my Amazon Author Page.

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Roger

    

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When We Return to Him in Faith

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Roger E. Bruner

[A free PDF of the lead sheet for this song is available here.]

Through Moses, God delivered the children of Israel
From their Egyptian captivity,
And He safely guided them through the wilderness
Towards the Promised Land.

But, stubborn and rebellious, they sometimes wandered needlessly;
Yet God never sleeps, and He stayed close by,
Ready to forgive when they returned to Him in faith.

Through Jesus, God delivers all of us who believe
From our captivity by sin and death,
And He safely guides us through this earthly life
Towards our heavenly home.

But, stubborn and rebellious, we sometimes wander needlessly;
Yet God never sleeps, and He stays close by,
Ready to forgive when we return to Him in faith.

About This Song:
Roger-2021
I failed to record this song at the time I wrote it or in the years between then and now, but in sitting around playing it to myself the past week or two I decided to make a quick, very rough recording in the hopes it will give you a better feel for the song than through the lyrics alone. You may listen to it here.

I dedicated this song to my pastor at the time, Rand Forder. If anyone happens to know Rand’s whereabouts now, please let me know. He was a great guy and a real inspiration, even though I doubt that his Snoopy sermon illustrations affected this song in any way.

If the Children of Israel had obeyed God instead of turning their faces from him so often, they could’ve made their trip from Egypt to the Promised Land in a LOT less time than forty years. Less than one year, I’ve heard, but I don’t recall the specific estimate.

Have you ever tried to go somewhere with a strong-willed child under tow? Took a lot longer than it should have, didn’t it?

The Children of Israel tried God’s patience more than once, yet He was faithful to fulfill His promise of deliverance from slavery.

I don’t know about you, but I’m sure I try God’s patience far too often. He’s trying to lead me on a path I can’t see. If I just trust Him, it’s a sure way–the only sure way–to go. But I like to be in control–or at least to believe I am. I like things the way I like them. I want to know God’s path ahead of time so I can decide whether His plan is really that much better–or that much more to my liking–than mine.

Sounds pretty self-centered and precarious, don’t you think?

But God stays close by, just as He always has, ready to forgive and to put me on the right path again as soon as I admit my sin and seek His forgiveness. He may have to put me on an alternate route from the one He’d originally planned, but He sees that I’m still going to get there. “There” may not be where I wanted to go, but where He wants me to be. If I’m to trust Him fully, I also need to trust that He knows my destination a lot better than I do.

What about you? Are you pursuing your own path and wandering in the wilderness? Or are you willing to let God do the directing?

I write Christian novels as well as songs. The two most recent ones are shown below and their pictures are links to the Amazon pages. The eighteen-book picture is a link to my Amazon Author Page.

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Roger

    

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I Wish I’d Been Living

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Roger E. Bruner

[A free PDF of the lead sheet of this song is available here. A very old recording may be heard here.]

I wish I’d been living when Jesus was born.
If I’d been an angel, I’d have joined in their song.
If I’d been a seeker I’d have followed the star.
But I wasn’t born yet, though I follow Him now.

refrain
I wasn’t born yet; I couldn’t be there.
Christ died for my life; I’ll live for Him now.

I wish I’d been living when Christ was a kid.
If I’d been His neighbor, He’d have been my best friend.
If I’d been his rabbi, I’d have marveled at all He knew.
But I wasn’t born yet, though He’s my best friend now.
refrain

I wish I’d been living when Christ was a man.
If I’d heard His sermons, I’d have savored each word.
If I’d been His disciple, I’d have fished hard for men.
But I wasn’t born yet, though I listen to Him now.
refrain

I wish I’d been living when Jesus was killed.
If I’d been His witness, I’d have told how good He was.
I’d have offered Him water when He said, “I thirst.”
But I wasn’t born yet, though I’m His witness now.
refrain

I wish I’d been living when Christ rose from death.
If I’d been with the women, I’d have shouted, “Praise the Lord!”
If I’d been with Thomas I’d have said, “Help me believe.”
But I wasn’t born yet, though I believe now.
refrain

I wish I’d been living when Christ rose through the clouds.
If I’d been there watching, I’d have cried, “Lord, come back soon!”
If I’d been in Heaven, I’d have said, “Lord, welcome home.”
But I wasn’t born yet, though I’m watching for Him now.
refrain

About This Song:
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I’ve written songs about Christmas and I’ve written songs about Easter. I’ve also written songs that are about both of those special events.

But this song goes miles further. It originally covered only the time from Jesus’ birth to His resurrection. But a few years ago I felt inspired to add the final stanza to cover His ascension back into heaven.

This subject is interesting to speculate about. What kind of relationship would each of us have had with Jesus if we’d been alive two thousand years ago and known Him in person?

Surely we would have recognized Him as the Son of God–the promised Messiah–and been the most faithful and supportive disciples of all. We wouldn’t have betrayed Him or let Him down. That’s what we’d like to believe, isn’t it?

But–as the song reminds us–we weren’t alive then. We can’t go back in time. We can’t know what He would’ve meant to us–if anything. So the only important thing that matters now is our current relationship with Him.

  • Is He living through us or do we live as if He’s long dead and gone?
  • Is He our best friend or someone we’re embarrassed to acknowledge we know personally?
  • Is He someone we talk with on a regular basis or someone we turn to only when times are tough?
  • Is He the prime model of how God wants us to live or just an excellent preacher, teacher, and story teller?
  • Is He the only way to God or just one of many?

I can answer those questions for myself, but I can’t do it for you. Is your relationship with Jesus real?

I write Christian novels as well as songs. The two most recent ones are shown below and their pictures are links to the Amazon pages. The eighteen-book picture is a link to my Amazon Author Page.

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Roger

    

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What Eyes Can See?

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Roger E. Bruner

[A very old recording of this song may be heard here. A free PDF of the lead sheet is available here.]

What eyes can see?
What ears can hear?
Who can imagine all the
Good God has for us?

No eyes can see,
No ears can hear,
No one can imagine all the
Good God has for us.

About This Song:
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“What Eyes Can See?” seems almost too simple to call a song rather than just a chorus. And perhaps it is.

But Isaiah 64:4 inspired it, and that gives it a lot of validity.

The Good News Translation says,

No one has ever seen or heard of a God like you, who does such deeds for those who put their hope in him.

and the Contemporary English Version says,

You are the only God ever seen or heard of who works miracles for his followers.

I like what The Message says:

Since before time began no one has ever imagined, no ear heard, no eye seen, a God like you who works for those who wait for him.

I honestly have no idea what translation I adopted my wording from, but the verse–and consequently my song–says something I believe in quite strongly.

God is unlimited in the perfect gifts He desires to give His children. If I can’t begin to comprehend the vastness of His attributes, how can I pretend to imagine all He’s able to do for each and every one of us?

I can’t even explain why He chose to spare my life when I was in the eighth grade, in a coma with acute viral encephalitis. But He did. He could have left me in a vegetative state when He brought me out of it, but He didn’t. I’m as normal as I could ever hope to be.

Has He done something special in your life–something inexplicably wonderful? Could you have imagined that He would ever do something like that? How about leaving a comment?

I write Christian novels as well as songs. The two most recent ones are shown below and their pictures are links to the Amazon pages. The eighteen-book picture is a link to my Amazon Author Page.

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God Will Provide for Us, Too

Posted on June 1, 2023 by Roger E. Bruner

[You may listen to an old recording of this song here. The free PDF lead sheet is here.]

Look at the birds of the air, how they’re fed.
Look at the flowers of the field, how they’re dressed.
We need not worry about food or clothes,
For God will provide for us. Yes, He’ll provide for us.
God will provide for us, too.

We are often troubled, but we are not crushed;
Sometimes in doubt, but never in despair.
There are many enemies, but we’re never without a friend.
Though badly hurt at times, we are not destroyed.

Look at the birds of the air, how they’re fed.
Look at the flowers of the field, how they’re dressed.
We need not worry about food or clothes,
For God will provide for us. Yes, He’ll provide for us.
God will provide for us, too.

God, our Heavenly Father, knows all our concerns;
When we put Him first, He supplies our needs.
What a waste to fret about all the troubles tomorrow brings.
Let’s let God be in charge each day as it comes.

Look at the birds of the air, how they’re fed.
Look at the flowers of the field, how they’re dressed.
We need not worry about food or clothes,
For God will provide for us. Yes, He’ll provide for us.
God will provide for us, too.

God will provide for us. Yes, He’ll provide for us.
God will provide for us, too.

About this Song:
Roger-2021
Do you tend to worry? If so, join the club. Most of us–even the most devout of Christians–occasionally worry.

The Scripture passages that today’s lyrics are based on remind us that worry is unnecessary. God is on our side and ready to meet our needs when we depend on Him rather than ourselves.

Matthew 6:25-34 was the primary source for these lyric ideas:

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

But 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 makes a significant contribution as well:

8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

Although the Bible passages are special in their wording, putting them to music enabled me to make the biblical message more personal. And they gave me a sermon to preach to myself as frequently as I need to.

I write Christian novels as well as songs. The two most recent ones are shown below and their pictures are links to the Amazon pages. The eighteen-book picture is a link to my Amazon Author Page.

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Roger

    

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The True Source

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Roger E. Bruner

[You may listen to this song here. The free PDF of the lead sheet is here.]

I come believing, Lord,
That You’re the true source of LIFE,
And as I go my way,
Help me to be my best for You.

I come believing, Lord,
That You’re the true source of JOY,
And as I go my way,
May my heart sing praises to You.

I come believing, Lord,
That You’re the true source of LOVE,
And as I go my way,
Help me to love both friend and foe.

I come believing, Lord,
That You’re the true source of GRACE,
And as I go my way,
Help me to give and to forgive.

I come believing, Lord,
That You’re the true source of HOPE,
And as I go my way,
Help me to share Your precious truth.

I come believing, Lord,
That You’re the true source of LIGHT,
And as I go my way,
May Your light shine brightly through me.

And as I go my way,
Help me to be my best for You.

About This Song:
Roger-2021

It wasn’t that long ago that I posted the lyrics for a little song called “I Come Believing, Lord.” If you don’t remember it, I don’t blame you. It isn’t a very memorable song.

I was looking at it again more recently and marveled that I’d even bothered to post it. Seeing how incomplete it looked didn’t take much effort.

So I started switching the stanzas around and trying to figure out what might make it better. I struggled for two or three weeks trying to improve the lyrics.  I kept “I come believing, Lord, that You’re the” because we’re coming to God as the source of everything He wants us to be. “And as I go my way” indicates what God is enabling us to be or to do as the result of our prayers.

Even after completing all of the stanzas I thought it needed, placing them in the most sensible and most meaningful order became a new issue. This is how I ended up thinking the ideas should flow:

  • Jesus promised Believers a more meaningful earthly life as well as an eternal one in Heaven. So praying for that kind of life and asking God to help us live our best for Him makes sense.
  • If we’re living the lives He wants us to live, we should be experiencing a true–a special–sense of joy. Not that we’re going to be happy every minute of our lives, but with the Holy Spirit within us, we should be able to enjoy the kind of joy that’s apt to break out in song.
  • Because God has given us His love, we should want to obey Jesus’ command to love others, whether they’re friends or enemies.
  • And because of everything He’s given us–His grace is beyond our comprehension–we should be willing to be gracious–to give to others in whatever ways we can and to forgive those who wrong us.
  • God’s light is brighter than anything we know, but if we’re living our best lives for Him, we want to reflect His love and be salt and light to those about us.
  • And that brings us back to the original life stanza.

The change in lyrics resulted in a few minor changes in the melody. Because the stanzas are short and repetitive in their format, I gave parts of the even-numbered stanzas a different melody. If you listen to the recording, you’ll figure out that the alternate melody is actually a harmony of the odd-numbered stanzas’ melody. I hope that keeps the song from sounding too tedious.

To say the least, I never anticipated that God would take a song I wrote long ago (I don’t even have a completion date on the original copy) and inspire me to turn it into something so much more complete. And, I hope, so much better.

I write Christian novels as well as songs. The two most recent ones are shown below and their pictures are links to the Amazon pages. The eighteen-book picture is a link to my Amazon Author Page.

I’ll be back again next Wednesday. (I’m sorry I’m a little late this week.) Please join me then. Better still, sign up to receive these weekly posts by email.

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Roger

    

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The Lord (Who) Never Stops Loving Me

Posted on May 13, 2023 by Roger E. Bruner

[The video was taken at our weekly nursing home ministry a few years ago. A free PDF of the lead sheet for this song is available here.]

What good can I do?
What good can I say
That’s good enough to
Pay the Lord for loving me?

There’s nothing I can do,
There’s nothing I can say
That’s good enough to
Pay the Lord for loving me.

What bad can I do?
What bad can I say
That’s bad enough to
Keep the Lord from loving me?

There’s nothing I can do,
There’s nothing I can say
That’s bad enough to
Keep the Lord from loving me.

Well, what then can I do?
What then can I say
To thank the Lord
For loving me?

I’ll do everything I do,
I’ll say everything I say
In the name of the Lord
Who never stops loving me,
In the name of the Lord
Who never stops loving me.

About This Song:
Those lyrics are pretty simple, but they express some very basic Christian theology. Basic, but extremely important.

How many people believe they’re good enough to “earn” their way into heaven? Quite a few, I’d guess. They fail to recognize that we’re all sinners and even the best of us doesn’t deserve God’s love.

Jesus is the only way to reach God. Not even the Mother Teresas of the world can make it to heaven without faith in Him as their personal Lord and Savior.

And how many people–not just those locked up in prison–reject Christianity because they don’t believe God can possibly forgive them for their sins. Ironically, their ultimate rejection of Him is the only sin He can’t forgive.

As hard as it is to believe–it might even rub us the wrong way–God loved  Hitler, Stalin, and Jack the Ripper–as much as He loves each of us. Regardless of their horrendous crimes, He would’ve forgiven them if they had turned to Him in faith and repented of their sins.

So we can’t be good enough to pay God for our salvation, and we can’t be bad enough to keep Him from loving us. What CAN we do?

We can be God’s loving, obedient children. Faithful in our gratitude for what God has done in our lives and continues to do daily. And we can share the Good News with others.

What about you? Do you think you’re good enough on your own or do you recognize that God’s forgiveness is necessary for everyone, no matter how good a person he or she may be?

I write Christian novels as well as songs. The two most recent ones are shown below and their pictures are links to the Amazon pages. The eighteen-book picture is a link to my Amazon Author Page.

I’ll be back again next Wednesday. Please join me then. Better still, sign up to receive these weekly posts by email.

Best regards,
Roger

    

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