Faith without Courage

By Beth | February 6, 2015 | Comments Off on Faith without Courage

    Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!     Psalm 31:24   He didn’t have faith but he had plenty of courage. Our new Sunday School class is teaching how to contend for our faith.  I observed as an “atheist” took on a Christian in a simulated…

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Shoveling Slush

By Beth | February 3, 2015 |

  However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Ephesians 5:33   I love to try new things. Today I shoveled slush. Slush is heavy! This is not the kind of “new thing” for which I would normally look but my husband…

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7 Ways to Confess Christ

By Beth | January 30, 2015 | Comments Off on 7 Ways to Confess Christ

.. because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9   I just read a book[i] about confession. I was expecting  it to be about the need to confess our sins –and it was. It…

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Instinct

By Beth | January 28, 2015 |

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. Matthew 10:20 When my son was three years old, he and I were involved as pedestrians in a car accident.  My foot was run over by a car that bumped my son as it came to a stop. As…

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Sanctification

By Beth | January 24, 2015 |

  Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.              1 Thessalonians 4:1   I can remember looking around…

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Now or Never

By Beth | January 20, 2015 |

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. Psalm 139:16   There’s a funeral home on the route I sometimes walk. As I went by it today there was man standing outside with…

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