5 Ways to Listen Up

By Beth | May 19, 2015

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.   James 1:19   It was silly to be so upset about it. I left a partially eaten snack sitting on a table and went to finish a little job that hadn’t been done. Someone yelled to…

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Friend or Fool

By Beth | May 15, 2015

  “One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.” Proverbs 12:26   “If one friend tells you a guy is the wrong one, twenty are thinking it.” I heard this many years ago. It is still true today. We must choose our friends wisely.…

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“Atta Girl”

By Beth | May 12, 2015

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.                  Proverbs 1:8-9   Fight abortion. Stand firmly for God’s plan for marriage. Expose evil deeds. Fight political injustice. Teach the Bible. All of these honor God. But do not…

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Tolerating Respectable Sins

By Beth | May 8, 2015

  …Or Respecting Tolerable Sins For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.  Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.  Romans 7:18-20   Murder, adultery,…

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Don’t Look Back

By Beth | May 5, 2015

  Sodom was a bad place. God executed righteous judgment. His messengers had warned Lot that he should go, take his family, and not look back. God was rescuing them from the judgment. I cannot even imagine how difficult it must have been for Lot’s wife to know that the place she had lived, raised…

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Exposing Works of Darkness

By Beth | May 1, 2015

  Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. Ephesians 5:11     Are there things you fear greatly? Are your responses to everyday difficulty a little over the top? Do you feel “on edge” a lot of the time? Are your children overly sensitive or fearful? Does it often…

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