For years I avoided the task. Well, actually, I would begin on January 1st and then somewhere in Leviticus I would wimp out and skip over to begin in my favorite books of the New …
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Profitable Reading
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God is Enough!
Do you ever wonder why God doesn’t just stop all of the evil in the world? Why He allows injustice and cruelty and heartache to go on? I find it comforting that there were people …
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Short Accounts
When I was a child, mom would send us up to the local grocery to pick up a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread. The store was about two blocks away in city …
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Come Apart Before You Come Apart
Mark 6:31And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. We pride ourselves on …
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Nothing Do I Bring
Photo by Donald Tong, Pexels The Prodigal Son is a familiar Bible story, and it is often used as an illustration when someone has wandered into an unhealthy or overtly sinful lifestyle. Sometimes we listen …
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How Long?
Joshua 18:3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the Lord God of your fathers hath given you? God had brought the Israelites out of …
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Eight Lessons For Life from John 21
The excitement was over. The disciples had lived through the horror of the arrest and trial, witnessed the agony of the cross, and experienced the resurrection at the tomb and through their own interactions with …
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Falling Short
Sometimes I have a better opinion of myself than I should. Sometimes I fail to see my own shortcomings, but when I really look at the fruits of the Spirit, and meditate on how they …
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Where’s the Fruit?
If you are as old as me, you may remember the old Burger King commercial where the elderly lady came into a hamburger establishment and remarked, “Where’s the beef?”. We laughed about that scene, and …
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Martha, Martha, Martha!
Luke 10:38 – 42 My name is Mary, but I have a Martha soul. You know Martha. She, her sister Mary, and her brother Lazarus were close friends of Jesus. He ate with them and …
