Thank You, Lord!

Lord Jesus, I just want to thank You today for … -creating me -putting breath in my body -waking me up this morning -putting food on the table, clothes on my back, shoes on my feet, and a roof over my head -giving me a car to drive -guiding and protecting me -loving me -dying [...]

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Are you piercing others with the Word?

The Bible, the Word of God, is the “sword of the Spirit” [Ephesians 6:17]. What does a sword do? It pierces! God says that His Word “is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a [...]

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Jesus is our refuge!

I don’t like dogs, partly because they don’t like me. One day while I was sweeping outside, a dog saw me and tried to run to me. Instinctively I hid from him so he couldn’t see me. When I did, he stopped running and went back to his master. Then it occurred to me [the [...]

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Go and tell!

“We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.”–2 Kings 7:9* After Benhadad, king of Syria, places a siege on the city [...]

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Are you fighting for the enemy?

There’s a war taking place and the battlefield is this world. Every day, battles are being fought for the souls of men and women. Women are killing their unborn babies. Homosexuals are “marrying” in civil unions. Muslims are committing suicide, and murdering Christians, in the name of their god. God has been removed from public [...]

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Where is your heart???

“As water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man”  (Proverbs 27:19, KJV). What we are attracted to and desire [hunger and thirst for] with our hearts determines what we choose to see and hear [seek, pursue]. This is what we feed into our minds. What we think about determines what we say [...]

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Evangelism: is Christ’s heart yours?

Yesterday was Missions Sunday. The front part of the church sanctuary was lined with flags from around the world, representing at least 50 different countries. In the morning service, the choir sang “We have a mission.” Using Matthew 6:19-33, the guest speaker, a former pastor in Hamilton, Ohio, spoke on the rewards of putting God [...]

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