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I love God and His people; starting with Yvette, my wife since '77, our family, congregation, community, state, nation, and continuing around the world.

Thursday, October 22, 2026

NEVER FOUND MAGIC GLASSES

I NEVER FOUND MAGIC GLASSES

by Marvin Latta & S. Alan Latta


I never found magic glasses 

Never saw rays of light

But someone spoke of Jesus 

His power, His love, His might  


No holy angels sang for me 

Nor prophets prophesied

But He broke thru and loved me 

Drew me to His side


Now I know I know the answer 

I’ve called upon His Name

It was the love of Jesus 

Freed me from my shame


You too can know the answer 

Call upon His Name 

It is the love of Jesus

Redeeming us from shame 


He’s number One and Alpha

Beginning and the End

The First, the Last, and In Between 

The sinner’s greatest friend 


His life He gave for us to save

Freeing guilty and enslaved

Arose from death to give us life

And draws us to His side


Now I know I know the answer 

I’ve called upon His Name

It was the love of Jesus 

Freed me from my shame


You too can know the answer 

Call upon His Name 

It is the love of Jesus

Redeeming us from shame 


I never found magic glasses 

Never saw rays of light

But someone spoke of Jesus 

His power, His love, His might  


No holy angels sang for me 

No prophets prophesied

But he broke thru and loved me 

And drew me to His side


For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.

But God commends His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

ROMANS 5:6 - 8

Monday, October 19, 2026

TILL THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD

Till the kingdoms of this world

  become the kingdoms of our God

We will occupy until He comes 


We are going forth to war

    with the weapons of the Lord

Expanding His dominion

    from shore to shore

We’re settin’ free humanity

    from their captivity

We will occupy until He comes


Till the kingdoms of this world

  become the kingdoms of our God

We will occupy until He comes 


Tho’ we may not know the hour

    He’s returning with great pow’r

To meet us as His Bride

    Purified….

Now we have a job to do

    Serving and discipling too

We will occupy until He comes 


Till the kingdoms of this world

  become the kingdoms of our God

We will occupy until He comes


“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” 

Amen.


‭‭MATTHEW 28‬:‭18‬-‭20‬ ‭        


NKJV‬‬

Thursday, September 24, 2026

BE-ATTITUDES


You bless the humble 

   with Your Kingdom

Those in mourning 

   with Your comfort 

You even bless the meek

   the earth is theirs


You bless the hungry 

   and the thirsty

Those with mercy

   with more mercy

You bless the pure in heart

   with seeing You


Be-attitudes

Lord let me be

These attitudes 

Lord let me receive

Your blessings, beatitudes

Be-attitudes 


You bless peacemakers 

   as Your children 

Those persecuted

   for Your sake

You will bless them all

   with great reward


Be-attitudes

   Lord let me be

These attitudes 

   Lord let me receive

Your blessings, beatitudes

   Be-attitudes 


Be-attitudes

   Lord let me be

These attitudes 

   Lord let me receive

Your blessings, beatitudes

   Be-attitudes 


Lyrics and Music 

  by S. Alan Latta 

    from Jesus’ Words 

      in Matthew 5:3-12  

Saturday, September 12, 2026

WHAT IS THE BOOK OF LIFE?

 WHAT IS THE BOOK OF LIFE?


Pray and see what the Holy Bible actually says:


EXODUS 32  32 "Yet now, if You will forgive their sin — but if not, l pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.”

   33 And the LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.


PSALM 56  8 You number my wanderings; put my tears into Your bottle; [are they] not in Your book?


PSALM 69  28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.


PSALM 139  16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.  And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when [as yet there were] none of them.


DANIEL 12  1 ….And at that time your people shall be delivered, every one who is found written in the book.


LUKE 10  20 "Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven."


PHILIPPIANS 4  3 And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names [are] in the Book of Life.


REVELATION 3  5 "He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.”


REVELATION 13  8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.


REVELATION 17  8 "The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.


REVELATION 20  12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is [the Book] of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.


REVELATION 20  15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.


REVELATION 21  27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.