Author name: The Rev Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt

  November 24 Psalm 62:1  Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him. I have found lately that I have been assaulted by a season of irritability. The chaos in conflicts out there in the world have disturbed my inner peace. Wars and possibilities of war. Upheaval of basic concepts like […]

    November 23 Acts 13:47  For this is what the Lord has commanded us: “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’ A missionary is defined as someone who shares the Gospel in a culture other than his own. I say humorously

  November 22 Luke 1:76-78 76 And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, 77 to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, 78 because of the tender mercy of

    November 21 1Peter 18-9 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. Years ago

  November 20 John 6:47  Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. The one most real thing for all of us is death. We don’t know when. We don’t know how. But not so deep inside we know it’s coming for us all. However, a key faith of Christianity is

November 18 Revelation 12:10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. The

November 19 Romans 10:13 “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Like many young people there was a period of about Six years in my young life when I fell away from the church and God. I found myself annoyed by people who asked “Are you saved?” I would think,

November 17 2 Timothy 1:9 He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time. Years ago we had the opportunity to host Bishop Alpha Mohamed from

  November 16 Ephesians 2:4-5November 16 Ephesians 2:4-5 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. Over the years many people have responded to an invitation to church by

November John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life…. In John 14:6 Jesus also says the He is “the way, the truth, and the life. To say we believe in the Son is more the a verbal declaration. To truly believe is to act in accordance of the way Jesus taught us to