Tag Archives: Religion

Where Does Your Light Shine? Part 1

Part 1 Christmas is past for this year, but like so many others, I LOVE the Christmas Season! I love the spirit of giving, the spirit of sharing and what seems to be a truce from the feelings of frustration, … Continue reading →

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Body – It Is Limited

 Positive Potential In Christ Psalm 40:6-8; Romans 12:1 Merriwether Lewis, celebrating his thirty-first birthday, confided in his diary a disappointment in not using his life to a greater advantage. He had spent too many hours indolently wasting time he should have … Continue reading →

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Common Sense

COMMON SENSE, GOOD JUDGMENT AND WISDOM?? When was the last time you were witness to common sense? Or when someone demonstrated the use of, common sense? When was the last time you heard the statement, “Now that makes (good) sense,” … Continue reading →

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Have a Blessed Season in the Lord!

To my wonderful brothers and sisters in the Lord, I would like to take this time to thank you for the past few months and also to wish you a most blessed season in the Lord! I will be taking … Continue reading →

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Sunrise Prayers

Here is a simple but poignant poem from a while back sent in email circulations. If anyone knows the Author, please let me know so that I may give them proper and deserved credit. This morning when I wakened And … Continue reading →

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Half-Truth, Whole Lie

Some time ago, before we even moved to Colorado, my wife and I were watching one of those television newsmagazines about a Colorado police officer who was fired for insubordination. The controversy that followed was over the fact that he … Continue reading →

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Prayers – A Poem

Life without purpose is barren indeed. There can’t be a harvest unless you plant seed. There can’t be attainment unless there’s a goal, And man’s but a robot unless there’s a soul. If we send no ships out, no ships … Continue reading →

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Collateral Damage

*This is a very long lesson and though I could split it up, I would rather not due to its importance. However, if you would prefer to read or study this offline, you can download a copy of this lesson … Continue reading →

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Bible – No Alterations to Truth

The Bible Has Never Changed Proverbs 119:152; 2 Peter 1:16 All speeches on the floor of Congress or in committee meetings become part of the Congressional Record. But you can’t always be sure that what was originally spoken or decided … Continue reading →

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You Can Be Set Free

Jesus was led like a lamb to the slaughter, Just for you, God’s sons and daughters, The blood of the Lamb was shed for the nation, When we believe this, we are a new creation, The blood of the Lamb … Continue reading →

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Bible English (Language)

Dear Fellow Brothers, Sisters and Blogger Friends; This is something that I believe the Lord has placed upon my heart since long before the Hurricane Katrina disaster and 9-11. I just haven’t really addressed it and it is over this … Continue reading →

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A Note From God

This is a poem from a friend of many years ago and one of the few that inspired my love of poetry even to this day! Do you doubt that God is watching as you go about each day? Do … Continue reading →

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Honesty, Subject To Conditions

To Harm for Gain Proverbs 19:9; John 8:44 The 1828 presidential election campaign seethed with heated, hateful innuendoes. President John Quincy Adams was the bull’s-eye. After the election, which Martin van Buren won, the new president admitted Adams’s absolute integrity. … Continue reading →

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Now That’s Love!

You know, when people tell you long enough that you are a trouble maker, that you “preach” love but no love they have ever heard, you begin to feel after a while that maybe, just maybe your teaching is just … Continue reading →

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Encourage One Another

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s … Continue reading →

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Revival Prayer

The power of prayer is intimacy with the Lord, but it is and should also be communal, drawing His children together in oneness of spirit as led by His Holy Spirit. This is how the Body of Christ, the Church … Continue reading →

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The Present Moment

The Present Moment I may never see tomorrow; There’s no written guarantee And things that happened yesterday Belong to history. I cannot predict the future, I cannot change the past, I have just the present moments, I must treat them … Continue reading →

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This IS the Day the Lord Has Made!

I hope that everyone had a great and wonderful weekend celebrating the 4th of July. I don’t want to undermine the importance of this great American tradition, but I want to share with you all the reasons we can celebrate … Continue reading →

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Give Me Liberty, or Give Me . . . . Part Two

“But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.” –Romans 7:6. Praise the Lord! The … Continue reading →

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Give Me Liberty, or Give Me . . . . Part One

Choices, choices, choices. In America we pride ourselves on the number of choices we have and the freedom we have to make them. The truth of the matter is, this is just a myth. The freedom to choose was given … Continue reading →

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