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Tag: grace

2024-09-02

Don’t Replace God

Vengeance fixes your attention on life’s ugliest moments. Score settling freezes your stare at cruel

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2024-08-31

Words of Strength

Do not withhold encouragement from the discouraged. Do not keep affirmation from the beaten down! Speak words that make people stronger. 

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2024-08-30

Desire of Your Heart

Susan just “knew” that if God would give her the desire of her heart she would be happy. If this one thing could happen, she believed she would be content.

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2024-08-29

Created, Lost, and Bought

The story is told of a young boy taken with model ship building and the sailing of his boats on the lake outside of town. After saving up quite a large sum from mowing lawns and walking dogs, ...

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2024-08-29

Giving with Strings Attached

A woman we’ll call Marie loved to give things away. When I was a child, I frequently was the recipient of her gifts.

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2024-08-27

Least Likely to Succeed

Have you ever heard comments about successful leaders such as, “I would never have expected him/her to succeed?”

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2024-08-25

A Mother, a Stroller and a Baby

It was Sunday morning and we were having coffee and a bagel at the local coffee shop before we went to church.  A young woman walked into the coffee shop, wheeling her baby in a stroller. 

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2024-08-23

The Upside Down Life

What seems like upside down living results in right side up joy.

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2024-08-22

Programmed Seashells

“Who decreed the boundaries of the seas when they gushed from the depths? Who clothed

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2024-08-22

Made Blameless

A follower of Christ is completely freed from all punishment as well as the guilt and power of sin.

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2024-08-21

Hard Hearted

"Blessed be the name of the Lord", because this disease of the heart is not incurable

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2024-08-17

Faithful One

I praise God that He takes delight in being the One who is perfectly faithful when we can’t be.

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2024-08-16

Do Not Disturb

The finishing touch in the travel kit was a "Do Not Disturb" sticker. The humor of it hit me: if we are honest we spend most of our days like that. 

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2024-08-15

The Battle Within

Do you long for righteousness but find that self-righteousness keeps getting in the way!

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2024-08-15

Are You Done Yet, Lord?

It seemed as though the challenges would never end. An aging parent fell and broke her hip. A brother’s cancer wasn’t responding to treatment.

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2024-08-14

Today Will Do

Don't worry about tomorrow. Lord, I don’t need tomorrow’s mercies, For Your portion today will do.

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2024-08-13

That Which Cannot be Broken

Your salvation is one thing no one can snatch out of your hand. "they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.”  John 10:28

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2024-08-12

Fight, Flight, Freeze …or Faith?

is it possible for Christians to have another response to turmoil in addition to these normal “human-wired” reactions?

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2024-08-11

Serving the Lord Wholeheartedly

Being revolutionary means allowing the Holy Spirit to direct you every moment of the day, even when we wouldn’t have chosen His plans.

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2024-08-10

I Was Blind but NOW I See

I pray that Jesus will everyday give me better spiritual eyesight to see Him and to see the plan He has for my life!

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2024-08-08

Ticks on the Clock

All of us are conscious of time, in one way or another. We feel that we don't ever have enough time.

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2024-08-07

The Greatest in God’s Kingdom

There are no self-righteous beings in Heaven. This is greatness in the Kingdom of Heaven: to possess a humble heart

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2024-08-07

I’m Flawed, Now What?

How many times have we told ourselves that we’re not good enough for God? The truth is, God specializes in using broken vessels.

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2024-08-06

When We Are Prodigals

The good news is that no matter how often we turn away from God and focus on His resources rather than on Him, He is always there, waiting for us with outstretched arms. We are always welcome to return and bask in His love and forgiveness.

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