Category: Spiritual Growth

Spiritually Alert to Our Environment

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Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. ~ Mark 14:38 Today as I was walking, I saw a lizard that did not run away as I approached. This caught my attention because the lizards usually hide with hast when I come near. […]

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Things To Do

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Praise the LORD, my soul. LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty. ~  Psalm 104:1 When I was young, I loved being outside in nature. I found joy in watching the clouds shape-shift. Puffy clouds like balls of cotton candy, wispy clouds flowing as rivers of snow, towering […]

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Happy New Year! Believe What God Says About You…

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We spend so much time believing what people say about us, especially, the negative stuff! “You’re lazy.” “You’ll never amount to anything.” “You’re just like that no-good scumbag.” And on and on the belittling, mean-spirited, unkind words spew out. Hurtful words from our adversaries and sometimes even from friends and family.

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In Accordance with Your Faith

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We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your[a] faith;~ Romans 12:6 I pray your Christmas was merry. Happy Holidays as we look forward to the New Year! As we leave 2022 behind—with its mix of joys and sorrows… successes and failures… blissful […]

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Memories of Kobie

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To everything, there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1

Kobie, I know that there will come a day when I remember you and your loving canine companionship without feeling a profound loss. Today is not that day.

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Expectation: The Golden Rule

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And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. ~ Romans 8:28

My grandfather who lived to be 95 years old was a kind, humble, even-tempered Christian who would give you the shirt off his back. I don’t remember him yelling or arguing with anyone.

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Use Your God-Given Gifts  

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I shared with them that every believer has at least one spiritual gift. And that gifts are not only given to the preacher, deacon, choir director, or special groups—like the praise and worship team. Peter shared that God has given gifts to each of us from his great variety of spiritual gifts (1 Peter 4:10). Apostle Paul affirmed that each person has at least one spiritual gift (Ephesians 4:7; 1 Corinthians 12:7).

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Our First Love

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Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ~ Matthew 22:37-39 Last Sunday our Pastor asked the congregation to spend alone time with Jesus. […]

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How Do I Find God?

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“How do I find God?” I heard this question the other day and it seemed strange to me. I found it difficult to fathom such a question. My first reaction was that God is not lost; therefore, He does not need to be found. But the more I thought about the question… the more it deserved further consideration.

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