Choosing from the Menu

By Beth | June 3, 2013 | Comments Off on Choosing from the Menu

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness. 2 Peter 1:5-8   Restaurant chains are making it easier and easier to stay on a “controlled eating plan” (I’m sick of being on diets!).  Before…

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Land of Plenty – Plenty of Pride

By Beth | May 30, 2013 |

And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.  “Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, lest, when you have eaten and are…

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Friends

By Beth | May 24, 2013 | Comments Off on Friends

                                    Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.  Proverbs 13:20  “I thanked God every day for my food, I never thought to thank Him that I could eat it.” This is…

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A Wife Who Prays

By Beth | May 20, 2013 |

The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. James 5:16b I thought she was crazy, or maybe just eccentric. As this older woman put her arms around me she pulled me into a hug as she whispered into my ear, “The Lord is gonna use you. He has great plans…

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One Way To Protect Your Marriage

By Beth | May 16, 2013 |

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” Ephesians 5:31  I have recently heard two tragic stories of marriages gone bad. They, along with some studying about what the Bible has to say about sex in marriage, have prompted the writing…

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Call Him Jesus

By Beth | May 12, 2013 | Comments Off on Call Him Jesus

The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,  for He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. Psalm 24:1-2 “Lord is not a nickname for Jesus. It means King.” This is a quote from a movie called “Ring the Bell.” It’s a…

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