Tag: Scripture
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Guard Your Heart: Love vs Bitterness
“Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many” Hebrews 12:15 What are you allowing to take root in your heart? Trees depend on healthy roots to thrive, especially in the harshest environments.…
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Navigating World Events with Faith in Christ
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before You. For the kingdom is the LORD’s, and He rules over the nations Psalms 22:27-28 There is a lot happening in the world today! For some, there is enough going on in…
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Reflecting Christ in a Chaotic World
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. PHILIPPIANS 4:8 It would be an understatement to say that there is a…
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Patience
“But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint” (Isaiah 40:31) Waiting is not one of my strengths! I’ve been both complimented for my patience and criticized for my impatience. I suppose…
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Looking To God Amid Life’s Challenges
“Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans” Proverbs 16:3 It is easy to become overwhelmed with everything happening in the world each day. The maddening pace of evens around the world has many asking what is happening in these last times. Still, there is enough demand on our time…
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Discerning Tares from Wheat: A Call to the Faithful
“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as…
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God’s Mercy and Human Righteousness
“Who is a God like You, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in mercy” Micah 7:18 There are those who deny the existence of God, and thus, sin. The only transgression they acknowledge is what they feel has…
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God’s Ordained Worm
“But as morning dawned the next day God prepared a worm, and it so damaged the plant that it withered” Jonah 4:7 If you live in the west, you have most likely heard or used the phrase “two steps forward, one step back” or “I can’t win for losing”. This is because a goal you…
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Moving Forward: Insights from the Mirror
“[I]f anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was” James 1:23-24 The mirror is a wonderful invention that has withstood the test of time. Afterall,…
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Called to Holiness
…“as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy”” 1 Peter 1:15 There is a reason those three dots precede the verse from the first epistle of Peter quoted above. Before getting any further into that, let’s explore the…
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