Tag Archives: Life Lessons

Am I Blessed Like This?

Thursday July 25, 2024 Matthew 5:3-10 “Blessed are . . .” When we first read the statements of Jesus they seem wonderfully simple and unstartling, and they sink unobserved into our unconscious minds. For instance, the Beatitudes seem merely mild … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 7/25/2024

Forgiven and Forgiving Idioms are often unhelpful because their overuse has robbed them of meaning. But the idiom “putting up walls” has a twist in Proverbs: “A brother who is offended is worse than a city of strength, and quarrels … Continue reading

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Reflecting With God 7/24/2024

Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we … Continue reading

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Romans 8:4

Wednesday July 24, 2024 Romans 8:4 The righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us. In our earlier experiences we know the Holy Ghost only at a distance, in things that happen in a providential direction, or in the … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 7/24/2024

Faithful Decision-Making “I asked God, and He didn’t answer me.” When I hear people say this, I’m often tempted to reply, “Haven’t you read the prophets?” Because sometimes what people are really saying is, “I asked God to do something … Continue reading

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Reflecting With God 7/23/2024

Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we … Continue reading

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Altogether Desirable

Tuesday July 23, 2024 Song of Solomon 5:16 He is altogether desirable. When the old Puritan minister had delivered his discourse, and dwelt upon firstly, secondly, thirdly and perhaps upon twenty-fifthly, before he sat down he usually gave a comprehensive … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 7/23/2024

Constructing Lives by the Law Dispensing good, helpful advice gets the benevolent juices flowing. As easy as it is to give advice, though, it often hits me with the irony of a cartoon anvil when I end up tripping over … Continue reading

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Reflecting With God 7/22/2024

Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we … Continue reading

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He Never Changes

Monday July 22, 2024 Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. It seems to be very hard for us to comprehend the importance of the fact that Christ does not change and that there is … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 7/22/2024

Self-Evident Hope “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of people, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what can be known about God is evident among them, for God made it clear … Continue reading

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Bible Insights 7/21/2024

Inspiring Words Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near (Revelation 1:3). The typical news reports—filled with … Continue reading

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Classic Devotional 7/21/2024

Centuries of Meditations – First Century 95 O Thou who ascended up on high, and led captivity captive, and gavest gifts unto men, as after Thy ascension into heaven Thou didst send Thy Holy Spirit down upon Thine Apostles in … Continue reading

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Anecdotal Story 7/21/2024

Even the Depraved Scripture References: Deuteronomy 1:17; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 While working undercover for the FBI, Joseph Pistone found that even Mafia soldiers have strong moral feelings. What did they feel about Iran, while it held our embassy? Bomb Teheran. … Continue reading

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Life In Focus 7/20/2024

Fasting for the Upwardly Mobile YOU may think of fasting as something done only by people who have taken vows of poverty, or perhaps by the highly devout. But Zechariah discussed fasting for people who were prospering materially (Zechariah 7:5). … Continue reading

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No Earls In Heaven

Saturday July 20, 2024 Ephesians 1:4-5 He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, . . . he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ. Warwick Castle sits in the center of England, … Continue reading

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Food For Thought 7/20/2024

Hole in the Pocket F. W. Boreham tells of the happy soul whose home is the Other End of Nowhere. He has two pockets. One has a hole in it and the other is carefully watched that no hole develops … Continue reading

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Faith From The Beginning 7/20/2024

Picture of the Sinner COMING back to Abram, we notice that after the sacrifice had been slain by Abram and the parts divided and laid one over against the other, Abram falls asleep: “As the sun was going down, a … Continue reading

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Reflecting With God 7/19/2024

Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we … Continue reading

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Matthew 7:14

Friday July 19, 2024 Matthew 7:14 “For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” Jesus does not conceal the fact that the gate is narrow. To get … Continue reading

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