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I hate name-droppers. Perhaps hate is too strong a word, but I generally can’t stand to hear someone talking about who they know and how wonderful that person is and how important it is to know them. This was part of what had initially turned me off about Christians. All of this Jesus business was…
You know that the LORD your God is the only true God. So love him and obey his commands, and he will faithfully keep his agreement with you and your descendants for a thousand generations. But if you turn against the LORD, he will quickly destroy you. ~Deuteronomy 7:9-10 (Contemporary English Version)~ What does it…
To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled. ~Titus 1:15 (New King James Version)~ Here I am again. I’ve been thinking about some of the things I’ve heard in church about how Jesus befriended the tax collectors and…
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world — the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does — comes not from the Father…
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings” ~(Jeremiah 17:9-10 NKJV)~ This question came up for me in prayer today. If we, as…
“For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age,” ~Titus 2:11-12~ It becomes increasingly clearer that “they” who are in power are determined to wield that power not in…
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For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher…
We have the freedom to disobey God but not the freedom to escape the consequences of that disobedience. Those who are faithful to God may be relatively few, but He does not forget them. ~Gotquestions.org (Book of Zephaniah)~ Sometimes it’s hard to know the best way to deal with a friend or a loved one…
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” ~Revelation 1:8 (New International Version, ©2010)~ It occurs to me daily that many people I know think I may have a screw loose. This is fine. In fact, I’m sure I do. …
In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe. ~Psalm 78:32 (New International Version)~ On my way to church this morning I didn’t worry. It was the first time I could ever remember driving in bad weather and not worrying about whether or not I could reach my…
Leading the Follower 