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FAITH AND WORKS, Jas. 2:18
“But someone may [well] say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” – Jas 2:18 Am I saved by “faith alone” or am… Read More ›
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IT IS SAD TO BE LOVED AND NOT KNOW (acknowledge) IT
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you say, “How have You loved us?” – Mal. 1:2 The story has been told a million times of the love that got away only to realize it too late. Many people… Read More ›
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PSALM 101, GUARDING THE HEART FROM THE WORLD
Stop for a minute and reflect on how things in the world can defile our hearts or take our hearts away from the things that are the most valuable. If the heart is not secured, we will throw away the… Read More ›
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HEARTS MUST BE WON TO JESUS CHRIST THROUGH HIS FOLLOWERS
Something I have been thinking about is how can we hope for the world to be better (And thanks to Paz for a comment he made in a recent post). Christians look across the landscape, and like Elijah, can begin… Read More ›
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STRANGERS AND ALIENS HERE
“Today is the day which the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” – Amen. People of faith do not grow weary and disheartened when things do not go well because their hope is in things… Read More ›
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HAVE FAITH THAT OUR POWERFUL GOD SEES
“Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” (Gen. 11:7) Consider the power of God to frustrate and confound the evil works of man. When we fret and moan… Read More ›
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THE WORLD WILL END….WHEN GOD SAYS IT WILL END
“While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:22). This is a question for all of you people out there who live in fear that… Read More ›
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MARRIAGE IS NOT BONDAGE, 1 CORINTHIANS 7:15,16
5 Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save… Read More ›
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PARENTING YOUR CHILDREN TO KNOW GOD, DEUTERONOMY 6:4ff, 6:6-9
GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE YOUTH AND CHILDREN I. WE ARE RAISING CHILDREN IN CHANGING TIMES A. In their book “What Every Family Needs”, Brecheen and Faulkner wrote, “Back in the days when most people lived on the farm, father and… Read More ›
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CONTROLLING THE APPETITE
The human, fleshly appetite is insatiable. Two blades are replaced by three, and three are replaced by four, and four are replaced by five. More is better. At a local restaurant, I snapped the photo to the left. With four… Read More ›