Pikes Peak

Pikes Peak
"Spacious Skies"

Sunday, November 13, 2022

Pointe Aux Barque Lighthouse - "Nothing will Separated Us from the Love of Christ"




 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?  As it is written:

"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:35-39 NIV


F.D. Roosevelt State Park, Pine Mountain Georgia - "Kindness is Everything"



 Jesus said, "I was hungry and you gave me food to eat.  I was thirsty and you gave me a drink.  I was a stranger and you welcomed me.  I was naked and you gave me clothes to wear.  I was sick and you took care of me.  I was in prison and you visited me."

Matthew 25:35-36 CEB

Providence Canyon State Park, Lumpkin Georgia - "Never Give Up'"





 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

James 1:2-3 NIV

Princess Place Preserve - Forgiveness: "Seventy-Seven Times"


 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me?  Up to seven times?"  Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times."

Matthew 18:21 NIV

East Inlet Trail, Rocky Mountains - "Fixing our eyes on Jesus"


 

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.  And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.  For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lost heart.

Hebrews 12:1-3 NIV

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Shores Waterfront Park, Matanzas River - “No One will take Your Joy From You”





So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

John 16:22 (ESV)

Monday, November 7, 2022

Blood Mountain Wilderness - “Better is One Day in your Courts than a Thousand Elsewhere”



Better is one day in your courts
    than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
    than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
    the Lord bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold
    from those whose walk is blameless.

Psalm 84:10-11

Amicalola Falls State Park - “Be Transformed by the Renewing of your Mind”


 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:2

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Pikes Peak Summit - "How Beautiful on the Mountains"

 







How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, "Your God reigns!"

Isaiah 52:7

Adams Falls - "He changes Times and Seasons"

 



He changes times and seasons;
he deposes kings and raises up others.
He gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to the discerning.

Daniel 2:21 

Trail Ridge Road, Rocky Mountains - "I Form Light and Create Darkness"


 


I form the light and create darkness,
I bring prosperity and create disaster;
I, the LORD, do all these things.

Isaiah 45:7 

East Inlet Trail - "Itching Ears"



 

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.  Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.  They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn to myths.

2 Timothy 4:3-4


Lake Granby, Colorado - "Remember the Former Things"




Remember the former things, those of long ago;
    I am God, and there is no other;
    I am God, and there is none like me.
    I make known the end from the beginning,
    from ancient times; what is still to come.
I say, 'My purpose will stand,
    and I will do all that I please."

Isaiah 46:9-10 

Rocky Mountains National Park - "Unfailing Love"






"Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Isaiah 54:10  NIV
 

Colorado River and River Run Trail - "My Eyes are Fixed on You"


 But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge--do not give me over to death.

Psalm 141:8 NIV

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Colorado River Trail- "Everlasting Love"


 The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying:  "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness."

Jeremiah 31:3 NIV

Mackinac Island, Michigan - "Joy Comes in the Morning"


 

Sing praise to the LORD,
  you saints of His,
And give thanks at the
  remembrance of His holy
  name.
For His anger is but for a
  moment,
His favor is for life;
Weeping may endure for a
  night,
But joy comes in the morning.

Psalm 30:4-5 NIV

Port Austin State Harbor, Lake Huron - "Voice over the Waters"


 

The voice of the LORD
  is over the waters;
The God of glory thunders.
The LORD is over many 
  waters,
The voice of the LORD is
  powerful;
The voice of the LORD is
  full of majesty.

Psalm 29:3-4 NIV

Port Austin, Lake Huron - "In the Land of the Living"


 I would have lost heart,
unless I had believed
That I would see the
goodness of the LORD
In the land of the living.

Wait on the LORD;
Be of good courage,
And He shall strengthen
your heart;
Wait, I say, on the LORD!

Psalm 27:13-14 NIV

Monday, October 24, 2022

Pike's Peak, Colorado Springs, Colorado - "A Refuge for the Oppressed"



The LORD also will be a 
refuge for the oppressed,
A refuge in times of
trouble.
And those who know Your
name will put their trust
 in You;
For You, LORD, have not
forsaken those who seek
You.

Psalm 

East Bulter Park, St. Augustine Beach - "The Work of Your Fingers"


 When I consider Your
heavens, the work of
Your fingers,
The moon and the stars,
which You have
ordained,
What is man that You are
mindful of him,
And the sone of man that
You visit him?
For You have made him a 
little lower than the
angels,
And You have crowned him
with glory and honor.

Psalm 8:3-5

Cumberland Island - "How Excellent is Your Name in all the Earth"


 O LORD, our Lord, How 
excellent is Your name
 in all the earth,
You who set Your glory
above the heavens!

Pslam 8:1

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Cumberland Sound, Cumberland Island - "The Light of Your Countenance"

 


There are many who say,
"Who will show us any
   good?"
LORD, lift up the light of
   Your countenance upon
   us.
You have put gladness in
   my heart,
More than in the season
   that thier grain and wine
   increased.
I will aboth lie down in
   peace, and sleep;
For You alone, O LORD
   make me dwell in safety.

Psalm 4:6-8 NKJV

Cumberland Island State Park - "You, O LORD are a Shield"


LORD, how they have
   increased who trouble
   me!
  Many are they who rise up
   against me,
  Many are they who say of
   me,
"There is no help for him in
    God."

But You, O LORD, are a
   shield for me,
My glory and the One who
   lifts up my head.
I cried to the LORD with my
   voice,
And He heard me from His
   holy hill.

I lay down and slept;
I awoke, for the LORD
   sustained me.
I will not be afraid of ten
   thousands of people
Who have set themselves
   against me all round.

Arise, O LORD;
Save me, O my God!
For You have struck all my
   enemies on the
   cheekbone;
You have broken the teeth
   of the ungodly.
Salvation belongs to the
   LORD.
Your blessing is upon Your
   people.                     Selah

Psalm 3 NKJV


Cumberland Island, Georgia - "Planted by the Rivers of Water"

 

Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the
   counsel of the
   ungodly,
 Nor stands in the path of
   sinners,
  Nor sits in the seat of the
   scornful;
But his delight is in the 
   law of the LORD,
  And in His law he
   mediates day and
   night.
He shall be like a tree
 Planted by the rivers of
   water,
 That bring forth its fruit
   in its season,
 Whose leaf also shall not
  wither;
And whatever he does shall
   prosper.

Psalm 1:1-3 NKJV


Jekyll Island, Georgia - "Blessed are All Those who put their Trust in Him"


Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a vain 
   thing?
The kings of the earth set 
   themselves,
And the rulers take 
   counsel together,
Against the LORD and 
   against His Anointed,
   saying, 
"Let us break Their bonds
    in pieces
And cast away Their cords 
   from us."

He who sits in the heavens 
   shall laugh;
The LORD shall hold them 
   in derision,
Then He shall speak to
    them in His wrath,
And distress them in His 
   deep displeasure;
"Yet I have set My King 
On My holy hill of Zion."

"I will declare the decree:
The LORD has said to ME, 
You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.  
Ask of Me, and I will give 
   You 
The nations for Your 
   inheritance,
And the ends of the earth
   for Your possession.
You shall break them with 
   a rod of iron;
You shall dash them in
   pieces like a potter's 
   vessel."

Now therefore, be wise, O
   kings;
Be instructed, you judges of
   the earth.
Serve the LORD with fear,
And rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son, lest He be
   angry,
And you perish in the way,
When His wrath is kindled
   but a little.
Blessed are all those who
   put their trust in Him.

Psalm 2 NKJV
 

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Paradise, South Island, New Zealand - "He will swallow up death forever"


 And in this mountain
The LORD of hosts will make 
for all people
A feast of choice pieces,
A feast of wines on the lees,
Of fat things full of marrow,
Of well-refined wines on the lees.

And He will destroy on this mountain
The surface of the covering
cast over all people,
And the veil that is spread
over all nations.

He will swallow up death forever,
And the Lord God will wipe
away tears from all faces;
The rebuke of His people
He will take away from all the earth;
For the LORD has spoken.

Isaiah 25:6-8

Chief Joseph Scenic Highway, Wyoming - "Who knows what will happen tomorrow?"


 There is one Lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy.  Who are you to judge another?  

Come now, you who say "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit;'"

Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow.  For what is your life?  It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

Instead you ought to ay, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that."

But now you boat in your arrogance.  All such boasting is evil.

Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to  him it is sin.

James 4:12-17