How to Make Room for More Blessings! How good is a glass of cool water on a hot day? How refreshing is that first deep breath in the morning? It feels good to receive. We love receiving. We love being filled up. But, by definition, filling something means it is less than full. I have […]
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I am going to veer a bit from my normal emphasis regarding believers and unbelievers. For many years I have encouraged relationships with unbelievers. How can we be witnesses if we do not communicate? Yet Paul wrote, 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be bound together [unequally yoked] with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and
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Exodus 2 recounts a story of Moses’ mother putting Moses in a basket and placing him in the Nile River. The law at that time required all newborns of the Hebrews be thrown into the Nile. Moses’ mother hid him for as long as she could, then let him go. All parents need to learn
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Paul’ life was amazing. Once he saw a light from heaven, was thrown to the ground, and heard the voice of Jesus (Acts 9). He also was caught up to heaven and heard words that are so powerful that man is not allowed to speak them (2 Corinthians 12). He spoke to kings, healed the
I remember when my sister was young, she was afraid of going to sleep alone. My mother would sit on the floor in the hall reading a book, so every time my sister would call out, Mom would assure her that she was close. That is understandable for a young child but, if you need
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God’s love created the universe and all the living creatures in it. God’s love set the people He created free. This freedom wasn’t (and isn’t) handled well. Humans continue to choose destructive paths and then make excuses for those choices. As we watch people make poor choices, we shake our heads and turn away. Genesis
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2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves. Evidently, we have a “treasure” that results in “surpassing greatness” (a superlative for you English language folk) of the power of God. Unfortunately, it feels like our unbounded
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Did you see God this week? What would your life be like if you saw God? Can we experience The Face of God? Or is that for the privileged few Bible prophets? 2 Corinthians 3:18, But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into
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Unfortunately, the secret of contentment is a secret few Christians know.
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Skeet shooters are people that shoot clay discs out of the air with shotguns. The best skeet shooters will say, do not point your gun at the skeet, put your eyes on the target and the gun will follow. Whatever you set your eyes on, you will naturally follow. Paul said in Philippians 3:17, “Brethren,
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