What is this business about my needing to study, strive, labor to be quiet? shouldn’t, quiet, just happen? I Thessalonians 4:11. I have always been a quiet person on the outside. For example, when I had the opportunity to give a Sunday morning sermon at a high school reunion, all my friends came up to […]
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Happy as the person who does not apply ungodly advice even from godly people. Or hang around with sinners, wishing we could do what they do, or join in with scoffers as they make fun of other people. Instead they meditate day and night on God’s word. They will be like trees that are green […]
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Lift Up Others’ Hanging Hands
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; Hebrews 12:12 Take a minute and watch the people around you, maybe go over to the mall or the grocery store. Notice how few people are smiling, walking with a firm step full of life, standing up straight, looking people in the eye. […]
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Sick People Need Doctors
Its me! It’s me! It’s me! Dear Great Physician, standing in the need of help! Did you know that one quarter of the New Testament was written by a physician? Jesus himself claimed to be a physician. In Matthew 9:12, Mark 2:17, and Luke 5:31 he says: “Don’t you realize that well people don’t need […]
The Lord gives and he takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord! Job 1:22 Now, come on, be real! Is that the first thing you think of when you have lost something very very important to your happiness? It sure is not what I think of, “Blessed be the name of the Lord”. […]
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Come As I Am Party?
When I die, I would love to have people sing the revival hymn written by Charlotte Elliot, “Just as I am without one plea but that thy blood was shed for me and that thou bidst me come to thee, O lamb of God I come.” When they sang that at the US capitol for […]
Psalm 127 says that there is no point to doing anything if God is not in it and if he did not ask me to do it. However, if he is in it, I need to get up at a reasonable time–enjoy my labor–quit when it is time to quit–and get a good nights’ sleep. […]
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LONELINESS
There was emotional pain in the garden of Eden even before any sin had occurred! Adam looked around at and worked at naming all the animals two by two but there was just one like himself. God looked at this and said that the condition was not good. Genesis 2:18 All fulfillment comes from […]
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HEALTHY LIVING Self-check tool:
If I love God and live in unhealthy ways, will he cover for my poor choices and let me live long and well? NO! One of the basic principles of life is: “That which a man sows–that will he reap. If anyone could break this rule, it would make a fool of God.” Good luck […]
The Touch of the Master’s Hand ‘Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer Thought it scarcely worth his whileTo waste much time on the old violin, But held it up with a smile.“What am I bidden, good folks,” he cried, “Who’ll start the bidding for me?”“A dollar, a dollar. Then […]
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