Ephesians 2:8-9

Beautiful, Yellowstone, God's Creation

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Yellowstone, lovely in photos and magnificent in person!

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Ecclesiastes 3:1-14

There is an appointed time for everything. and there is a time for every event under heaven—

A time to give birth and a time to die;


A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.

A time to kill and a time to heal;


A time to tear down and a time to build up.

A time to weep and a time to laugh;


A time to mourn and a time to dance.

A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;


A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.

A time to search and a time to give up as lost;


A time to keep and a time to throw away.

 

A time to tear apart and a time to sew together;


A time to be silent and a time to speak.

A time to love and a time to hate;


A time for war and a time for peace.

What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?

I have seen the task which God has given 

the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.

He has made everything appropriate in its time. 

He has also set eternity in their heart, 

yet so that man will not find out the work 

which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

I know that there is nothing better for them 

than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime;

moreover, that every man who eats and drinks 

sees good in all his labor—it is the gift of God.

I know that everything God does will remain forever; 

there is nothing to add to it 

and there is nothing to take from it, 

for God has so worked that men should fear Him."...

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Irresistible and Free!

God of grace, amazing wonder,

 

Irresistible and free;

 

Oh the miracle of mercy,

 

Jesus reaches down to me.

 

God of grace, I stand in wonder,

 

As my God restores my soul.

 

His own blood has paid my ransom;

 

Awesome cost to make me whole.

 

 

God of grace, who loved and knew me

 

Long before the world began;

 

Sent my savior down from heaven:

 

Perfect God and perfect man.

 

God of grace, I trust in Jesus;

 

I'm accepted as His own.

 

Every day new grace sustains me

 

As I lean on Him alone.

 

 

God of grace, I stand astounded,

 

Cleansed forgiven and secure.

 

All my fears are now confounded,

 

And my hope is ever sure.

 

God of grace, now crowned in glory,

 

Where one day I'll see Your face;

 

And forever I'll adore You

 

In Your everlasting grace. 

-Getty

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Ephesians 2:1-10

"And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."...

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