Words of Service
OK, you can’t know everything about a person’s intent for an event from what is reported in the paper but this set me off. The article was about a local church taking some teenaged girls to clean and do other acts of service at a ministry center in a nearby city. The article concentrated…
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5 Steps for Wives Battling Pornography
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12 At a wedding where my Pastor was officiating he said something like this: “Pornography moves a man…
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Give How Much to Whom?
So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.2 Corinthians 9:7 Twitter etiquette says you follow back whomever follows you. Lately, for me, that has been some questionable characters. I get private messages saying, “Hi beautiful. How are you today?…
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“Your Final Notice”
“This is your final notice…” How many times do we hear these words and, in our own minds think, “Oh, if that were only true!” We have held onto our telephone landline because it makes our internet cheaper (I cannot explain this but we check every year, with no cable TV, it is the…
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No Hunger
But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. Matthew 22:29 “There is no hunger for the Word of God there.” This is the explanation we heard regarding why someone was leaving a church. They further said that the preaching was not unbiblical and there…
Read MoreGratitude in Attitude
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances;” “for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (Thessalonians 5:16-18). I recently was reminded of an old friend’s greeting whenever we visited his home in Gratitude, Maryland, right on the Chesapeake Bay. On our first visit he met…
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