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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Playground Horrors

By Beth | January 16, 2015

When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven…

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Quick to Hear

By Beth | January 13, 2015

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger. James 1:19   I spoke to a young woman the other day who said she had chosen one word to be her focus through 2015. “Discipline” is the word. As we talked she said she feels the…

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Food for Thought

By Beth | January 9, 2015

Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.  Proverbs 30:6   This past Fall I went on another diet. I did this about the same time last year on a different diet. A few years ago I ate a low-carb diet and lost weight which I kept…

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Magnify the Lord

By Beth | January 6, 2015

“And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.”  Luke 1:46-47   These words from the book of Luke confronted me this morning. Years ago, before I was a Christian, I had a collection of over 100 Santas. They were everywhere at Christmas. Though they were not magnified,…

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