Monthly Archives: November 2014

God’s Faithfulness

Deuteronomy 7:9 (NIV) Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands. Hebrews 10:23 (NIV) Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who … Continue reading

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Witnessing for Christ–comes with a cost!

Ezekiel 3:18 (NIV) 18  When I say to a wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you … Continue reading

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Eternity

Daniel 12:2 (NIV) Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. Matthew 19:29 (NIV) And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive … Continue reading

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Not for me

Matthew 7:3-5 (NIV) 3  “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4  How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there … Continue reading

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Garibaldi and Paul (and me?)

Romans 16:7 (ISV) 7  Greet Andronicus and Junias, my fellow Jews who are in prison with me and are prominent among the apostles. They also were united with Christ before I was. 2 Corinthians 6:5-7 (NLT) 5  We have been beaten, been put in prison, faced angry mobs, worked to … Continue reading

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Give praise to that All-Gracious One

Psalm 69:30 (NIV) I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. Isaiah 51:3 (NIV) The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and … Continue reading

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What could the King do?

Romans 6:4 (KJV) 4  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. In the second century a Christian was brought before a … Continue reading

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Thanksgiving to God

Ezra 3:11 (NIV) With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the LORD: “He is good; his love to Israel endures forever.” And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. Ezra 3:11 (MSG) They sang … Continue reading

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Trusting in God

Psalm 37:3 (NIV) Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Proverbs 3:5 (NIV) Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Jeremiah 17:7 (NIV) “But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose … Continue reading

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Words of the Shepherd

Ecclesiastes 12:11 (NIV) The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails–given by one Shepherd. Luke 4:22 (NIV) All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked. John 6:63 (NIV) The … Continue reading

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