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Faith Isn’t a Feeling
If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does have works, is…
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Life is an Open Book Test
The sum of Your word is truth,And every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting. Psalm 119:160 One of my current studies posed a question that’s been really difficult for me to answer. I’d wooled it around for over a week and one morning I was feeling really frustrated that the answer is taking so…
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1-22-23 Sunday Encouragement
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:9-10 Cherished Sibling in Christ:…
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1-21-23 Saturday Encouragement
In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. John 1:4 I know that, like me, many of you have said you struggle in the winter because it’s just so dark. When I get the winter blues, I turn to John 1:4, and this morning I want to share the encouragement…
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Revisiting: 5 Ways to be in His Will
“Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.“ Hebrews 10:36 I don’t usually know the finer details of God’s plans, and that often frustrates me. I like a well laid plan and I like it even better when…
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Preview: What is Love?
Part of understanding the truth that God is love and that God loves us is understanding what love actually is. Modern usage of the word love encompasses everything from likes to preferences to affection to desire. It’s no wonder we have gaps between our heads and our hearts in this area. We can’t even fully…
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Don’t Give Up
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 God always knows when I need reminding of one of His truths. I’ve written on this topic before, but it comes up so often in our lives, that it…
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Trust in the Lord
Trust in the Lord and do good. Then you will live safely in the land and prosper. Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. Commit everything you do the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you. He will make your innocence radiate like the dawn, and the justice…
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Do Not Fear
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. Psalm 27:1,3 Fear is an…
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1-15-23 Sunday Encouragement
Abraham Lincoln is quoted as once saying, “I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me, and I didn’t have the heart to let him down”. I don’t know what friend or friends old Honest Abe dedicated this saying to, but I have to wonder, given that he was known…
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