When I was in college, my father was given orders to go to Greece. He was to take the job of a Navy Captain that was killed by a terrioist. He had guards that watched over his house and family day and night. It was unsettling at times. We also...
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When my children were young, we used to play a “clean up” game. We would sing the Barney cleanup song, “Clean up clean up everybody everywhere.” We are all cleaning up our houses after the holidays, but how about in the spiritual? Are you getting rid of the things in...
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This Christmas season, you can have great peace. There are conditions. Peace comes only through Jesus Christ; He is the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). “…confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans...
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There are two categories of people; those who believe and obey and those who do not. The question is, what do you believe, and who are you obeying? God says, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). This time of year, we coax children into believing in...
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Holidays can feel so overwhelming when you have lost a loved one. You may ask how everyone can be so happy when I have lost this person.   God knows your heart and what you are going through. Take comfort in the fact that He knows. “The Lord does not see...
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“Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:10-11 I remember that Christmas was a time of...
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We all have times in our lives when the situation appears to be overwhelming. Stop and ask yourself, could God be testing me? “What is man, that You should exalt him, That You should set Your heart on him, That You should visit him every morning, And test him every moment?” Job 7:18-19 God is watching...
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“When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out...
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Have you ever prayed for something, and then the answer was not as expected, or worse yet, have you given up hope that it would ever be answered and have moved on? When our focus is off ourselves and serving others, this may be just the time that God moves....
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A friend of mine has a chicken named lovey-dovey, and it is anything but loving. The other day it tried to attack her. However, she is calling the chicken what she desires it to be. God calls us what we are to become, holy, blameless and righteous in Christ. “just...
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