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More Than A Resolution …

“ … You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and great commandment.” (Matthew 22:37, 38) When you get where you are going, where will you be?  Everybody is going somewhere!  So what is your goal … your primary […]

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God Will Say When It Is Enough

“I do not ask that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.” (John 17:15) If there is one truth among all the truths that comprise God’s Word … it is the truth that God does things … allows things to transpire … governments to […]

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That Just Doesn’t Make Sense

“Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?  Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him, my salvation and my God.”  (Psalm 42:11, ESV) Have you ever found yourself in a situation where all you can say is, “That just doesn’t make sense”?  Maybe it was […]

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“The Half Has Not Been Told …”

“Then she said to the king:  “It was a true report which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom.  However I did not believe the words until I came and saw with my own eyes; and indeed the half was not told me.  Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame […]

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Reflecting the Potter’s Masterful Touch

I watched them as they came in for the first class of the new quarter. Some came in with their close friends … some simply made their way in to find a seat somewhere.  There were some who were smiling, some perhaps a little nervous, some simply ready to see how the class was going […]

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Is His Grace Sufficient?

“And He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.’  Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”  (2 Corinthians 12:9, NKJV) “No one understands what I am going through.”  “Nobody gets it!”  “My situation […]

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He Is Near To Us

“Then Jesus said to them, ‘All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written:  I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’” (Mark 14:27) Jesus was all too well acquainted with broken hearts.  After all, In Heaven, He watched along with His Heavenly Father […]

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Softly and Tenderly

“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”  (John 10:27)  Children don’t usually react well to a loud, harsh and unsettling appeal from parents to stop doing whatever it is that they are doing that is wrong.  It is very easy to ramp up our tone of voice only to […]

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Ring The Message Out

“… For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.” (1 Thessalonian 1:8, ESV)) Everyone likes to hear good news!  Whether it’s about upcoming weather forecasts, personal business, relationships, sports, work […]

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Some Much Needed Encouragement

“Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory […]

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