The Romans project/study continues… I made it through Romans 1:17 with the kids this past Sunday, but I believe this coming Sunday we will go back and dig deeper into Romans 1:16-17 before we move forward into the next section of Romans.
Here’s some more of the study that I put together for the kids to take home and work on with their parents as we looked at Romans 1:1-17:
Read Romans 1:15, what is Paul eager to do?
He is eager to __ __ __ __ __ __ the __ __ __ __ __ __
Read Romans 1:16, what do we learn about Paul?
He is not __ __ __ __ __ __ __ to __ __ __ __ __ __ the gospel
THINK ABOUT IT….
If Paul was not ashamed to preach the gospel, then we shouldn’t be either! What is the gospel? What does it mean to preach the gospel? How can you preach the gospel?
Read 1 Corinthians 15:1-8, what is the gospel?
Christ __ __ __ __ for our __ __ __ __ according to the S__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __,
and that He was __ __ __ __ __ __, and that He was
__ __ __ __ __ __ on the __ __ __ __ __ day according to the S__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Read Romans 1:2, what do you learn about the gospel?
It was __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ beforehand through His prophets in the __ __ __ __ S__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Read Romans 1:16, what do you learn about the gospel?
It is the __ __ __ __ __ of God for salvation to everyone who __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Read Romans 1:17, what do you learn about the gospel?
In it the righteousness of God is __ __ __ __ __ __ __ _ from __ __ __ __ __ to faith
Read Romans 1:17 again and write it below. This verse is the theme of the book of Romans.
Read Romans 15:19, where all has Paul preached the gospel?
From __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ to __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
THINK ABOUT IT…
Where have you preached the gospel? Where can you preach the gospel? Draw a map from your house to the places you go (school, church, ballgames, friends, etc) and put an X on the places you shared with others about Jesus.
Read Romans 16: 1-3 and 21-23, how many friends did Paul have with him who helped him share the gospel?
He had _______ friends helping him
THINK ABOUT IT…
Who are the friends that you have that will help you share the gospel with others?
Read Romans 1:7, who is Paul writing this letter to?
He is writing to the __ __ __ __ __ __ __ of God in __ __ __ __, called as __ __ __ __ __ __
Read Romans 1:8, what do you learn about their faith?
Their faith was being __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ throughout the whole __ __ __ __ __
Read Romans 16:17-19, why is Paul writing the church in Rome?
He wanted them to keep __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ on those who cause dissensions (fights, separations, quarrels) and he wanted them to be __ __ __ __ in what is __ __ __ __ and __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ in what is __ __ __ __
THINK ABOUT IT…
What do you need to change about the people you hang around, watch, listen to, and learn from in order to pay attention to Paul’s warning to the church?
Read Romans 1:12, what did Paul want the church of Rome to be? Unscramble the letters to find the answer.
EURGDEOCNA __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Read Romans 1:12 again, did Paul also need to be encouraged by the saints in Rome? Circle your answer.
YES NO
THINK ABOUT IT…
Paul wrote to the church of Rome to warn them, to teach them, and to encourage them. He also needed to be encouraged by them. Who is someone is leadership, someone who teaches you, encourages you, helps you that you could encourage today? Think about it and maybe send that person a card or just give them big hug.
Below is what my children’s church kids did to encourage our “Paul” our Pastor Charles 🙂
The kids all wrote encouragement on the post-it notes and then we snuck out during service and covered his office door with them 🙂
By the way, how’s that memorizing of Romans chapter 1 going?
WARNING: THIS IS A LADIES FOCUSED POST, READ AT YOUR OWN RISK
I am not a Superbowl watcher… I do not even care for the commercials… when I hear the word Superbowl I think unrealistic beer commercials, scantily clad cheerleaders, crude halftime shows, fixed game, sex trafficking, and millions of people who profess to know Christ forsaking Sunday night Bible study for a football game.
No offense to you if its your thing, it’s just nothing good really comes to my mind concerning it…
This year was no different.
My man and I had plans to leave the Monday following the infamous Superbowl Sunday for a couple of nights away in Nashville… my man was at home getting clothes washed and I was at church cleaning up after Sunday night children’s classes and setting up for our Monday Co-op. I was looking for a message someone had said they had sent me and when I couldn’t find it in my emails I went on over to Facebook to see if it was there… but when I went, I ended up seeing something that completely threw me for a loop.
An offhanded click of the “like” button sent this redhead into a talespin of self-image deprecation.
I don’t know if people really understand the danger in their offhanded remarks and statements and how much danger they can cause by the open door and foothold they offer freely to the enemy of our souls…
To see the glory and praise and even worship given to that which grieves the heart of our God is a sad sad thing…
So yes even though I did not watch the Superbowl, not even a commercial, the halftime show still managed to find me and so did Satan’s spiritual forces of darkness. As the flood of nausea swept over me I felt every ounce of overweight on my body. I felt completely unattractive and undesired. I felt the wrinkles around my eyes and dark circles that have formed under them. I felt the aftershock wave in my arms and the fact that my bottom is a lot lower than it used to be. I felt the very unfirmness of my once tight tummy. I thought how on earth can I go on this trip with my man and actually think he desires this body? Not to mention the fact that the menstrual cycle that was supposed o have ended several days ago was still lingering on…
The weight of oppression fell on me and I knew the trip my husband and I had been looking forward to for MONTHS was doomed. We had been looking forward to this time alone and away. We both needed to be renewed and to rest in each others arms…
I confessed my insecurity to my man. I sheepishly apologized from my irrationality. Yet, condemnation still weighed on me…
My dear sisters in Christ saw me the next morning and knew I was not right… I confessed and shared how I could feel that slimy serpent on my back, just jumping and breathing down my back… I confessed and my dear sister prayed and we laughed. It’s amazing how obvious satan’s tactics become when we expose them and its amazing how silly some of the crazy things that we think become when we speak them and get them out of the darkness of self…
I knew then that Satan was trying to stir his Superbowl pot…
He knew my husband and I had this trip planned and he wanted to ruin it.
He tried, but he did not succeed.
I came home from Co-op and went upstairs to see my man and as I reached him, he grabbed my chin in his hands and he looked me in the eyes and he told me how beautiful I was to him and that I was all he ever desired… and guess what… I believed him. After fourteen years with this man he still desires me and I still desire him… and I desire for him to desire me. I don’t care if anyone else ever desires me. I am not dancing on a stage hoping that lust filled little men and boys will buy my records. There is only one man’s eyes I want looking at me with desire… and that is my husbands.
We went on our trip. When we pulled into the hotel parking lot the hotel sign said: Rest, Relax, Rejoice, Rejuvenate.
Wow… God knows what He is doing all the time.
We went on our trip and we enjoyed each other. We walked holding hands down the mall. He discovered a tickle spot on me that in fourteen years he had not yet discovered. We laughed. We kissed. We talked. We loved. We made memories.
Satan’s Superbowl tried to ruin it, but we had the last laugh.
What the enemy intended for evil, God intended for good.
It is almost scary how much I love this man. I grow to respect him more each day. It is amazing, this beautiful thing called marriage. It truly is a mystery… when you think you can’t love someone any deeper, this lifewalk together takes you even deeper still… Marriage: a Beautiful Mystery.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
You might think after a certain amount of time with the Lord, you would stop learning about yourself… but the fact is you don’t. I think if you stop learning, then that’s when you know you are in trouble.
There are things that I have grace for in abundance. There are sins that I can lovingly rebuke and can hear that others are struggling with and I never check up at how I see them or emotionally feel about them… however there are others that don’t break my heart… they downright make me mad. They make my head tilt, my eyes twitch, and I have to bite my tongue to be kind because I have little grace to give for these sins.
I have often wondered why these particular sins receive such a deep emotional response within me.
And well I have discovered the reason why…
These are the few sins at their base that do this to me…
1) Sexual Sin
2) Dishonoring Authority
3) Ingratitude
It takes a huge dose of the Spirit to keep me in wise counsel when confronting someone in the midst of these sins. As I asked God one day during my quiet time why these sins worked such emotion in me… He answered me…
Oh Nicole, these are the sins you hate because they were your sins.
These are the sins that I carried and these are the sins that Satan used to hold my chains and to control me for the first twenty-four years of my life. These are the sins that haunt me and these are the sins that Satan and his forces of darkness use to whisper condemnation in my ear… so I hate these sins with a vengeance.
I struggle to not give my “what fors” when I know someone is living in these sins… willfully when they profess to know Christ. I can’t help but question their relationship with Christ because these are the sins that were put to death in me when I met Him and became His.
I don’t understand how someone can say they love Christ and yet willfully practice sex outside of marriage.
I don’t understand how someone can say they love Christ and then in the next breath cuss out and/or dishonor their parents, teachers, coaches, etc.
I don’t understand how someone can say they love Christ and then grumble and complain about everything and never say thank you or appreciate all that has been given for and to them.
I have learned that I don’t understand these things because these are the things that God in Christ saved me from… and still to this day I hate them. I hate these sins because I know the consequences of them. I have seen the hurt they cause up close and personal. So I hate them.
Yes, it takes every ounce of divine grace I have to hold my tongue and to show love and patience toward a professing believer that I see willfully practicing these… I have to remember that I professed Christ when I was in them as well… though I knew Him not then…
Yet I would know Him indeed.
Please don’t think for one minute that you will hear me say these sins are okay… or pat someone on the back with a there-there as they suffer the consequences of these yet choose to stay in them. I also won’t cast pearls before swine, I will wait for God to move in them though my head is still tilting, eye is still twitching, and my tongue is probably bleeding from the bearing of my teeth upon it. It’s not that they don’t know… they just choose not to obey and God doesn’t force obedience, so neither shall I. God has taught me to let grace and mercy be present in my judgment because it was grace that drew me to the cross and I will trust that it will be grace that brings the others I meet and know as well… I will try my hardest to keep my Bible from pounding upon their head and instead will use it to stand upon in faith and in hope that the love of Christ will triumph in their hearts.
And I will continue to hate these sins so they never rise in me again.
Today we continue in our Names of God series with another one of my favorite titles/names of Christ… Today we will be learning that Jesus is Didaskalos.
Then a scribe came and said to Him,
“Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.”
Matthew 8:19
Didaskalos is the Greek word for teacher and it means: a teacher, in the NT one who teaches concerning the things of God, and the duties of man one who is fitted to teach, or thinks himself so, the teachers of the Jewish religion, of those who by their great power as teachers draw crowds around them, by preeminence used of Jesus by himself, as one who showed men the way of salvation.
Jesus is our Teacher. He is Didaskalos. Even those who deny His Deity will profess that His teachings are amazing. Even those who refuse to acknowledge Him as the Son of God and the Only Way unto salvation study His teachings and marvel at them. Many that deny Him as Lord still seek to understand His teachings on love, humanity, justice, and mercy.
When we go to the Old Testament in the book of Isaiah we see that God pointed to the day that the Didaskalos would come…
Although the Lord has given you bread of privation
and water of oppression,
He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself,
but your eyes will behold your Teacher.
Isaiah 30:20
When these words were spoken through the prophet Isaiah the nation of Israel was living in rebellion towards their God. Their worship of Him had become simply a religious ritual. They also had added the worship of false gods into the temple of the One True Living God… It was a sad day. God would discipline His people with bread of privation and water of oppression, but because He loved them with an everlasting love and was bound in covenant to them, He would one day also send them the Bread of Life and the Living Water… He would send the Teacher.
The word Teacher in the Hebrew, here in Isaiah 30:20 is Mowreh and it means, (early) rain, and it comes from the word Yarah which means to throw, to cast, lay, set, to shoot arrows, to throw water, rain, to point out, show, to direct, teach, instruct
I read this definition and I thought how true this is of the Word of God, the Word made flesh, Jesus came to throw water in our face…
When Jesus came on the scene teaching, His teachings came to wake people up out their slumber.
His watchmen are blind, All of them know nothing. All of them are mute dogs unable to bark, Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;
When Didaskalos showed up teaching, His words shot throw the hearts of those who listened. His teachings pointed out things the scribes and pharisees could not see. He came and He taught people the law of God in a way in which they had never heard it… He came and He taught and the crowds came to hear Him speak and teach.
When Jesus saw the crowds,
He went up on the mountain;
and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him.
He opened His mouth and began to teach them…
Matthew 5:1-2
People would come from all over to hear Him teach because He did not teach with mere repetition and rote…
Jesus did not teach in a way that left people staring into a zoned out space and drooling in their sleep… He taught with authority and power.
When Jesus had finished these words,
the crowds were amazed at His teaching;
for He was teaching them as one having authority,
and not as their scribes.
Matthew 7:28-29
Now here’s the thing that got me as a teacher and writer and speaker… I tend to judge my efficiency according to how many “likes” and “shares” and “repost” I receive. The enemy of my soul is very good at heaping condemnation and ineptness upon me by using the lack of “crowd” against me. However as I studied this lesson my God brought me to tears and to my knees as He showed something I hadn’t really seen before…
Yes Jesus taught and the crowds came to hear Him… but it was the recorded one on one, face to face ,and heart to heart moments of His teaching that were the most amazing and life changing and poignant for humanity.
In John 3:1-21 when Jesus shared that one must be born again to enter the kingdom of heaven, when He shared that God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have everlasting life… when He shared these truths of salvation it was with Nicodemus alone. It was one on one, face to face, and heart to heart… and Nicodemus would never be the same.
In John 4:7-26 when for the first recorded time in Scripture, Jesus reveals Himself as the Messiah. He says, “I who speak to you am He.” it was to one woman, the woman at the well. He was one on one, face to face, and heart to heart with this woman… and this woman would never be the same.
Precious one, we may join the crowds to hear someone speak an teach amazing things. I have been there at the conferences when the teacher taught and the people cried and shouted and walked away exclaiming how great the message was… but it only changed them long enough to get out to the parking lot. It only changed them long enough to meet their current need… it was not enough to change them.
If we choose to keep Jesus on the mountain, if we choose to leave His Word at the podium on the stage, if we choose to remain a part of the crowd… then we can take Him or leave Him. We can remain apathetic and unchanged… but if we choose rather to leave the crowd as the disciples did…
When Jesus saw the crowds,
He went up on the mountain;
and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him.
He opened His mouth and began to teach them…
Matthew 5:1-2
We cannot remain the same.
Precious one, don’t leave Him on the mountain! Don’t stay a part of the crowd. Don’t keep the Didaskalos at a distance. Come to Him and sit at His feet. If you are in a group that ridicules the Teacher, that mocks the Christ, that sets up legalism over grace, that preaches a religion instead of a relationship, and you might be afraid to come boldly out of the crowd because you are just not sure about this Jesus, this Teacher, this Didaskalos, then my friend come as Nicodemus came, come at night, come alone… open the Word of God and ask the Teacher to teach you one on one, face to face, and heart and to heart. He will!
Maybe you are involved in a lifestyle that has covered you in shame. Maybe you are shunned by society. Maybe you are mocked. Maybe you fear the rejection of the church, of those who profess to be Christians, maybe you even fear the rejection of Christ… maybe you have to come to sneak out to get nourishment for yourself when you know no one will be around because you don’t want to be subjected to the judgmental stares and offhanded remarks and sneers… then beloved come as the woman at the well came. Come and open the Word of God and ask the Teacher for a drink. He will give you His living water and you will never thirst again.
When we come to Him He will teach us… He has promised He would… He will teach us Himself if we will just simply leave the crowd and come and sit at His feet. Then He will give us His Spirit and His Spirit will teach us all things and bring to remembrance all that He has taught us…
“These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you.
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in My name,
He will teach you all things,
and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
John 14:25-26
I can testify to you that if you come with a seeking heart, the Teacher will indeed teach.
O how I love Your law!
It is my meditation all the day.
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,
For they are ever mine.
I have more insight than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies are my meditation.
I understand more than the aged,
Because I have observed Your precepts.
I have restrained my feet from every evil way,
That I may keep Your word.
I have not turned aside from Your ordinances,
For You Yourself have taught me.
How sweet are Your words to my taste!
Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
From Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.
Psalm 119:97-104
And never forget that it’s not about the crowds.
Mom… Dad… think about the opportunity you have to teach the beautiful truths of God one on one, face to face, and heart to heart with your child. Don’t leave the teaching of the Word of God to the preacher at a distance… don’t leave it at the podium on Sundays. Never underestimate the power of your one on one with your child.
Pastor, teacher, writer never forget its not about how many come… its about who leaves changed.
Today we will see that our Jesus is the Akrogoniaios.
For this is contained in Scripture:
“Behold, I lay in Zion a choice stone, a precious corner stone,
And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”
1 Peter 2:6
Akrogoniaios is the Greek word for Cornerstone and it means placed at an extreme corner, the corner foundation stone. Jesus is the Cornerstone. He is Akrogoniaios.
As look further at this verse, we also see that He is the choice stone. Choice in the Greek is eklektos and it means picked out, chosen, chosen of God, choice, select, best of its kind, excellence, preeminent. The word stone is lithos and it means a stone, of small stones, of building stones, of Christ.
So Jesus is the Cornerstone. He is the choice stone and He is the tested and costly stone.
Therefore thus says the Lord God,
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone,
A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed.
He who believes in it will not be disturbed.
Isaiah 28:16
He is the Cornerstone and this Cornerstone comes from the house of Judah…
For the Lord of hosts has visited His flock, the house of Judah,
And will make them like His majestic horse in battle.
“From them will come the cornerstone,
From them the tent peg,
From them the bow of battle,
From them every ruler, all of them together.
Zechariah 10:3-4
Not only the Cornerstone, but also the tent peg… I have a funny, yet pertaining story to share about the tent peg…
I was talking with my husband about some BIG PLANS I had come up with for a children’s ministry event. I was going to take our gym and transform it into an indoor campground. I was going to build a big “campfire” in the middle with lights and tissue paper and logs and limbs and everyone cold bring their tent and pop it in the gym… and while I am expounding in all my excitement in what I thought was a well planned out event… my husband looks at me and says, Nicole how are you going to stake the tents? You can’t drive the stakes in the gym floor…
Ugh! Well, that burst my bubble. The plan would never work because the tents were useless if they could not be properly staked to the ground.
Christ is the Cornerstone and He is the tent peg. Our house, our plans, no matter how grand or greatly connived or conceived will not stand if Christ is not the one that has them held firmly to the ground. He must be the beginning peg from which everything else is popped up and held.
He is the beginning of the tent and He is the beginning of the house, the beginning of the foundation, the Cornerstone, the Akrogoniaios…
He is the Cornerstone and for the rest of the house to stand it must be evenly lined up and connected to the first stone, the cornerstone. If we are connected to this cornerstone, this foundational wall, then we too are a part of His house…
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of ourconfession; He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.
Hebrews 3:1-6
Jesus our Cornerstone is the Choice Stone, the Tested stone, the Costly Stone, and He is also the Living Stone. He is the Living Stone and those who come to Him come as living stones and they come to be apart of the building up of His house…
And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men,
but is choice and precious in the sight of God,
you also, as living stones,
are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood,
to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:4-5
Jesus is the Cornerstone of the house of God and if we are to be a part of this house then we must come to Him and through Him… because as we have already learned in our study of His names, not only is He the Rock from which the Cornerstone is hewn by which the house is built and the foundation is begun but He also is the Door of entrance into the house and not only is the Door, but He is the Bridegroom that carries His bride over the threshold of that Door and He not only is the Bridegroom of the house and the Door to the house, but He also is the Light in and of the house… oh my goodness are you shouting yet?!? This is our Jesus!
for through Him
we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens,
but you are fellow citizens with the saints,
and are of God’s household,
having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,
in whom the whole building,
being fitted together,
is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,
in whom you also are being built together
into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:18-22
It is only through Jesus that we have access to the house and it is only Jesus who is the Cornerstone of the house… He must be the foundation. It doesn’t matter who lays the next brick or how they lay it as long as it is connected and laid in line with the Cornerstone.
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:5-11
What then is Baptist? What then is Assembly of God? What then is Church of Christ? What then is Nazarene? What then is Presbyterian? What then is Catholic? Only servants through whom you have been taught and given an opportunity to hear the Word… maybe here the seed was planted, maybe here the seed was watered, maybe here the soil was worked… but only God can cause the seed to grow.
It doesn’t matter who planted. All that matters is that the seed was planted in Christ. If the seed is not planted in Christ, then the seed will rot in the ground. If Jesus is not the foundation’s Cornerstone then it doesn’t matter how strong the building appears, it will collapse.
However, if you come as a living stone to the Living Stone and you are of the house of God then one day…
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper. It had a great and high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names were written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. There were three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west. And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, and its gates and its wall. The city is laid out as a square,…
Rev 21:1-4, 9-15
You can come to the Cornerstone and become a part of the house… and let me tell you from experience that as the Word declares, you will never be disappointed or you will come to the Cornerstone and you will stumble over Him and He will even offend you by His Word…
For this is contained in Scripture: “Behold, I lay in Zion a choice stone, a precious corner stone, And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.” This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve, “The stone which the builders rejected, This became the very corner stone,” and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word…
1 Peter 2:4-8
If you stumble over the Cornerstone, it s because you are disobedient to the Word… but those who come to the Word to obey it… they find that the foundation on which has been laid with this Cornerstone is strong, firm, steady, solid, dependent, steady, unwavering, trustworthy, no matter the storm.
The writing and teachings of Nicole Love Halbrooks Vaughn
