Kenai Mountains, Alaska - "My Kingdom is Not of this World"

 

Jesus said, "My Kingdom is not of this world, if it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders.  But now my kingdom is from another place."  "You are a king, then!"  said Pilate.  Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king.  In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth.  Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."

John 18:36-37

Chugach Mountains - "Without Dreams, We Reach Nothing"

Without dreams, we reach nothing.

Without Love, we feel nothing.

Without God, we are nothing.

Chugach Mountains - "For the Mountains May Move and the Hills Disappear"

 

For the mountains may move

and the hills disappear,

but even then My faithful love

for you will remain.

My covenant of blessing will

never be broken, says the Lord,

who has mercy on you.

Isaiah 54:10

Turnagain Arm Lake, Alaska - "My Whole Being Waits"

 

I WAIT FOR THE LORD,

MY WHOLE BEING WAITS,

AND IN HIS WORD

I PUT MY HOPE.

Psalm CXXX-V

Lake Superior, Marquette

 

Colorado River, Rocky Mountains

 

Sunrise at Moultrie Creek

 

Lake Taupe, New Zealand - In The Beginning

Iin the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

Genesis 1:1-2

Lake Taupo - Gateway to Tongariro National Park and Rotorua

 

Bay of Plenty, Mount Maunganui, New Zealand,

 

Shores Waterfront Park Trail

 

Intra Coastal Oak Trees

 

Fall Season in Florida

 

Little Tallapoosa River

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

                     Amos 5:24

Ask, Seek, Knock - Matamata, New Zealand

 

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.  Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?  Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?  If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him?  So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 7:7-12

“It is He Who Made Us, and We are His”

Know that the Lord is God.
    It is he who made us, and we are his;
    we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 100:3

“Who is a God Like You?”

18 Who is a God like you,
    who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
    of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever
    but delight to show mercy.

He will again have compassion on us;
He will tread our iniquities under foot.
Yes, You will cast all their sins
Into the depths of the sea

Micah 7:18-19

Who Gives the Sun for Light?

 

Thus says the Lord,

Who gives the sun for light by day

And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,

Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar;

The Lord of hosts is His name:

Jeremiah 31:35 

North Beach Vilano

 

Road to Glenorchy, New Zealand - "Do Not Worry about Tomorrow"

 

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Matthew 6:34

Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown - "For Where Your Treasure is, There your Heart will be Also"

 

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy and where thieves break in and steal.  But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths an vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6:19-21

Shotover River, South Island - "The Eye is the Lamp of the Body"

The eye is the lamp of the body.  If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.  But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness.  If then the light within your is darkness, how great is that darkness?

No one can serve two masters.  Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.  You cannot serve both God and money.

Matthew 6:22-24

South Island, New Zealand - "We Fix Our Eyes Not on What is Seen"

 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far out weights them all  So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18

Sunrise - “Above All Wonders the World has ever Known”

 

“Above all powers above all kings

Above all nature and all created things

Above all wisdom and all the ways of man

You were here before the world began.”

By Lenny LeBlanc and Paul Baloche

He Soared on the Wings of the Wind

 

He parted the heavens and came down;
dark clouds were under his feet.
He mounted the cherubim and flew;
he soared on the wings of the wind.

2 Samuel 22:10-11

Pictured Rocks National Seashore - "He Drew Me Out of Deep Waters"

 

I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,

and I have been saved from my enemies.

The cords of death entangled me;

the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.

The cords of the grave coiled around me;

the snares of death confronted me.

In my distress I called to the Lord;

I cried to my God for help.
From his temple he heard my voice;
my cry came before him, into his ears.
The earth trembled and quaked,
and the foundations of the mountains shook;
they trembled because he was angry.
Smoke rose from his nostrils;
consuming fire came from his mouth,
burning coasts blazed out of it.
He parted the heavens and came down;
dark clouds were under his feet.
He mounted the cherubim and flew;
he soared on the wings of the wind.
He made darkness his covering his canopy around him--
the dark rain clouds of the sky.
Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced,
with hailstones and bolts of lightning.
The Lord thundered from heaven;
the voice of the Most High resounded.
He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy,
with great bolts of lightning he routed them.
The valleys of the sea were exposed
and the foundations of the earth laid bare
at your rebuke, Lord,
at the blast of breath from your nostrils.

He reached down from on high and took hold of me;
he drew me out of deep waters.
He rescued me from my powerful enemy,
from my foes, who were too strong for me.
They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
but the Lord was my support.
He brought me out into a spacious place;
he rescued me because he delighted in me.

Psalm 18:3-19