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Continue reading →: A Kingdom that Cannot be ShakenBut you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of…
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Continue reading →: Love Never FailsI Corinthians 13:8 begins with—Love never fails. As defined in this same chapter love is: Patient, kind, not jealous, does not brag, is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account wrongs suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, rejoices…
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Continue reading →: Let Us PrayRecently, a couple friends feeling down asked me to pray for them. Later, as I considered my prayer, I felt dissatisfied. I realized my prayer was misdirected—it focused on their experience. Wouldn’t it have served them better, if I had turned their attention to the awesome, faithful, gracious God we…
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Continue reading →: Forsaking Broken WellsI have to confess I desire worldly success. After years of mothering, homeschooling, homemaking, I’d love to do something ‘significant’ and maybe even get a paycheck. Even though I know better, I’m tempted to believe worldly success will make me feel valuable. I have friends in the homeschool community who…
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Continue reading →: Freedom…before Christ came…we were slaves to the basic spiritual principles of this world. But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us…
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Continue reading →: a precious cornerstoneSo this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.” Isaiah 28: 16 (NIV) God speaks through Isaiah, a prophet who lived seven hundred years before…
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Continue reading →: Increasing and Abounding in Love…may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all… I Thessalonians 3:12 (ESV) What motivates your love? Is it the love of others? Their attention or approval? Gifts? The Bible says, we love because God first loved us (I John 4:19). As I grow to…
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Continue reading →: Our first loveIn the first eleven verses of Revelation in the Bible, John receives a word/vision from Jesus which he is told to write to the churches in his day. The picture John is given is of seven lampstands, each representing a church which is given the task of reflecting the light…
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Continue reading →: Thorns“Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.” Genesis 3:17-18 (NIV) “Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.” Matthew 13:7…
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Continue reading →: Happily Ever AfterAnd God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:6-7 (NIV) So many fairy tales end with these famous…
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