Cheryl Jackson

NEVER DISAPPOINTED None of us are strangers to being disappointed.  In life, we have learned to prepare ourselves for both the best and the worst possible outcomes.  But when it comes to our salvation, there is no need to be braced for disappointment because the hope we have in Christ is guaranteed. The presence of […]

NOT SHAKEN We all have different ways of dealing with worry.  Some internalize it, others call a friend, and still others find a way to take their minds off it.  When we bring our worry to God and lay our anxious hearts bare before him, he will encourage us , lift us up, and sustain […]

MEASURED DAYS Life throws all kinds of things at us.  Stress, pressure, decisions, and busy schedules.  When we are living, rushed in the midst of our own lives, we forget the age – old reality that life passes over quickly.  If we stop, as the Psalmist did, in full awareness of a fleeting life, we […]

  Maverick City Music x Kirk Franklin joined NBC’s TODAY Show to perform “Kingdom,” off their collaboration album, ‘Kingdom Book One’.   Additionally, Franklin and Maverick City Music co-founders Tony Brown and Jonathan Jay discussed the movement behind Maverick City Music, how the genre-transcending group continues to pave the path for minority representation in the […]

RELEASED AND RESTORE When a judge puts down the hammer to seal a guilty verdict, the person is condemned to whatever sentence is given.  Forms of punishment have been different over time and space, but they all share the same purpose – to cause one to suffer as a consequence for wrongdoing.  We were all […]

Fred Hammond is Number One This Week On Billboard’s Gospel Air Play Chart! During the Pandemic, Fred Hammond provided audiences with a free live concert series called, SUNDAY NIGHT LIT!  “Hallelujah” was featured during the portion of the concert called, Sunday Morning Fred. For more than 35 years, music lovers around the world have known […]

JAILHOUSE ROCK Being thrown into prison for your faith is one of the hardest forms of persecution believers can face.  It is worth nothing that despite the walls around them, Paul and Silas continued to praise God with praying and singing.  It must have been loud enough for the other prisoners to hear them.  Paul […]

ONE OF US When we face hardship in life we can often feel like nobody really relates to what we are going through.  Sometimes people cannot see beyond their own situation to know how to help.  Perhaps you have been in a situation where you didn’t really know how to help a friend who was […]

GIVE ME LIBERTY Freedom is a place without obligations.  Freedom is to live exempt from debts, constraints, and bonds.  Our obligation for the sin we’ve committed is to satisfy justice.  Our souls cannot be free without a release from our debt of sin, and the currency demanded for a soul is death. When our debt […]

LASTING LOVE Romantic relationships come and go; people can be in love one day and out of it the next!  When love is approached selfishly, relationships are abandoned when there is no longer a benefit.  This can even happen in friendships.  If you have been through this kind of heartache, you may be a bit […]