Category: Christian Walk
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Surprised By Titles
Many Bibles I have include titles of sections and of chapters. However, I have one Bible that does not. I recently completed the Psalms, took notes, and assigned titles to each Psalm. What if we all ignore the titles that someone else assigned to the chapters and sections and listen for the titles the Holy…
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What to Do In Uncertain Times
As we begin a new year and a new decade, we see uncertainty in our world, our nation, and even in our families. Lord, are we safe? Will we have enough money? What if one of us gets sick and needs extended care? I don’t know what to do, God.
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49 Years of Blessings
From the beginning of creation, “God made them male and female. Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” Mark 10:6-9 Wave after wave of…
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Walking into a New Year and New Decade
May you walk into the New Year and new decade in the steadfast love of God, trusting in His faithfulness, His direction, and His salvation.
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Resolved: Listen Deeply … 5 Strategies
Texts, emails, phone calls, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, television, radio, calendar, to-do lists, traffic, never-ending meetings. Do these intrusions make up a good part of your day? Could they be interfering with the important things in your life? In 2019, the word “busyness” described a good part of my life. Resolved.
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A Time for Hope
Unfortunately, some people have taken the focus off of Christmas and God’s great gift to the world. Instead of pointing people to the amazing love of God, our eyes and ears are fixed upon the sins of the world. Instead of focusing on hope, the articles direct readers and the media towards what is wrong…
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Stories of Significance
“Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened, and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.” Jesus, when he began…
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From Suffering to Ministry
Why, God? What do I have to learn, Lord? Is there some sin that I haven’t confessed? Elizabeth and Zacharias had prayed for a child, but no child came. They were old now. In those days, it was a disgrace if a woman could not have children. Elizabeth was probably looked down upon, and some…
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How Are You Preparing for Christmas?
“Rome rules. Corruption reigns, and we haven’t heard from God in 400 years. Now, this man who wears camel hair and eats wild locust and honey is roaming the desert telling us to be baptized like Gentiles converting to Judaism. Weird thing is, Jews are doing it. The world has gone mad!”
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3 Reasons to Adore
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:16-17 In the beginning, God created…