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I know I am boring. People tell me all of the time. Not with their words of course, but with their body language. The worst part is that they do not try to hide it. We may be walking together, or standing in a group and the bored person is looking around for something or […]

In the US, we have established a 5 day work week. The Bible says that, “Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work.” (Ex 23:12 et al.) If my work day is 8 hours, that means I should be working approximately 48 hours each week. Interestingly enough that is almost

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,  and self-control.” It is interesting that three out of the nine fruit of the Spirit Galatians 5:22-23 are very similar.  The fifth in the list is gentleness (KJV; NIV & NASB, use “kindness”).  The sixth in the list is goodness. 

There are several words for “hope” in the Old Testament.  One of the root words for hope is “kaw-vaw.”  It is usually translated as “wait.”  “Hope” is a nice word.  “Wait” is not, especially in western society.  For us, it seems life should be done at great speed and everything done with maximum gain in

Romans 8:38-39; “Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 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.” Colossians 3:12-13 describe some of the Christian attributes