God's Promises That Keep Us

J. Ellsworth Kalas (adapted from the foreword): This book came to birth in a quite modest kitchen in Sioux City, Iowa, over a period of years in the late 1930s. On a shelf in that kitchen, just above the stove, was a box of cards, each measuring roughly one by three inches, each card containing a verse from the Bible. These verses covered a wide area of biblical teaching. Many had a quality of admonition and instruction, but the overall mood was one of encouragement. The thousands of people who kept such a box in easy reach were sustained by the contents. I revered those promises because they meant so much to my parents, especially my mother, and because on several occasions I had seen how uniquely appropriate a particular verse proved to be at a particular time. That Center Street box has now been lost for half a century or more, so I can't promise that the verses I embrace in this book were all in that box, but they are verses that have blessed me over the years, and I dare to believe that some or all of them will give a lift or a thought to you. This book contains a discussion guid