Focus on the Example

By Beth | June 22, 2012 |

  For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. John_13:15    I was just reading about a man who said, “A while back I found myself talking on the phone, emailing on my laptop, and playing Wii with my daughter all at once.” It…

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Faith Before the Battle

By Beth | June 19, 2012 |

                                                     Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah Psalm 62:8    I may not remember the exact words of our conversation but the message was clear.   My twin sister is fighting, and from all indications winning, a battle with pancreatic…

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Plane Faith

By Beth | June 15, 2012 | Comments Off on Plane Faith

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? Psalm 56:3-4    As the fifth of six children my experience with vacations as a child was limited. We went on one every year…

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A Good Book

By Beth | June 12, 2012 |

A Good Book Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:18     At the end of a Sunday School class a couple of weeks ago a friend came over to talk to me. She is a librarian and often hears about books…

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The “Hard” Lie

By Beth | June 7, 2012 | Comments Off on The “Hard” Lie

But He (Jesus) said, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.”   There are many little euphemisms that we use to describe what God does in and for us. “If God brings you to it He will bring you through it.” “What God ordains He will underwrite.” “God enables whom He calls.”  In…

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Firmly Rooted

By Beth | June 1, 2012 |

…so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith–that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness…

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