Begin to Write Our Name

January 18, 2025 / pastorpete51 / 3 Comments

The Bible says the devil comes
And shouts things just aren’t fair
Because believers are being blessed
And kept under God’s care 

He shouts He knows about our sins
And demands to take control
Because our failures and our faults
Have sold to Him our soul

But while he tells all that we’ve done
Thinking that He might win
The Son of God lifts up His hands
And shows the scars to Him

Reminding Him that from the Cross
He cried Father forgive
They do know not what they have done
I’ll die so they might live

Then in defeat the evil one
Slinks from the scene in shame
As he sees the Savior in God’s book 
Begin to write our name!

And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments. Luke 23:34 ESV

Begin to Write our Name
By Peter Caligiuri
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Our Own Race

January 9, 2025 / pastorpete51 / 1 Comment

To run the laps of others
and to walk down every street
God has not promised blessings
Nor His might when problems greet

But His strength is for the weary
And His power to us is given 
 Through every long and lonely lap
On our own race to Heaven

He gives power to the faint,
    and to him who has no might he increases strength.
Isaiah 40:29 ESV

Our Own Race
By Peter Caligiuri
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Before We Had Faces

January 4, 2025January 14, 2025 / pastorpete51 / 12 Comments

Before we had faces
And we had no voice at all
Then no one else could see us
 When we were small – small – small

God took the plans He’d made
And put them out to see
To show to all the pattern
He would use for you and me

Then stamped His image on our hearts
And signed the bottom line
So we would be delivered
Just exactly in His time!

For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:13 NIV

Before We Had Faces
By Peter Caligiuri
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