Monthly Archives: March 2019

Be Free from the Love of $

Hebrews 13:5 (NIV)   Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough … Continue reading

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The Best Position to be In.

Psalm 37:16 (NIV)  Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked.  ‘Tis better to be lowly born,  And range with humble lives in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.   —  William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Edythe Draper, … Continue reading

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Avoid a darkened spirituality

Proverbs 4:19 (NIV) But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble. A spirituality that preaches resignation under official brutalities, servile acquiescence in frustration and sterility, and total submission to organized injustice is one which has lost interest in holiness and … Continue reading

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A Grand Accounting Is Coming

2 Corinthians 5:10 (NIV)  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by … Continue reading

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He hears your voice.

Psalm 55:17 (NIV)  Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice. God has not always answered my prayers. If he had, I would have married the wrong man—several times! — Ruth Bell Graham Edythe Draper, Draper’s Book of Quotations for the Christian World, (Wheaton, … Continue reading

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Be Faithful in Prayer

Romans 12:12 (NIV)  Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. “O God, stay with me; let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is … Continue reading

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Peace

Isaiah 26:12 (NIV)  LORD, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us. Emotional peace and calm come after doing God’s will and not before. — Erwin W. Lutzer Edythe Draper, Draper’s Book of Quotations for the Christian World, (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, … Continue reading

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He renews all things.

Psalm 104:30 (NIV)  When you send your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth. An inescapable fact of God’s economy is that death strikes down one generation, and a new one is raised up to take its place. When animals die, either by violence or … Continue reading

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Living in a World of Enemies, but offering to the World–Love!

Philippians 3:18 (NIV)  For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Matthew 5:44 (NIV)  But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

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Out of nothing, an entire universe–all by the Word of God.

Hebrews 11:3 (NIV)  By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out … Continue reading

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