…free from your burdens!
Ask fifty people to finish the statement "Live As If" and you are likely to get fifty different answers. For Christians it will mean something different than for non-Christians. Incorporated into the top graphic are the answers given by friends of mine. It is our desire that your answer will be different each time you visit.
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Bible and Quote - September 28 - October 2
'Bible verse and quote' from Jan Couns
(Pursued by his enemies, David wrote) I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me. Psalm 3:5
Sometimes God calms the storm, sometimes He calms the sailor. Anon
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people Who have set themselves against me all around. Psalm 3:6
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. John Paul Jones, 1747-92, US naval officer
Arise, O Lord! Deliver me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; shatter the teeth of the wicked. Psalm 3:7
Wishful thinking, confident…
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Goodness and Mercy
'God's Words For US' from Cecelia Lester
“Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Psalm 23:6 (NIV)
David writes words of hope here. After expressing God’s relationship with him (The Lord is my shepherd. . .) and the resultant feeling he has. (. . . I shall not want.)
GOODNESS
“The fruit of the spirit is love, joy peace . . . goodness . . . Against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23
When we see someone acting for the betterment of others instead of themselves, we realize they are…
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Example To Others
'Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life' from Tom Kelley
As an Ohio State Buckeyes fan, 2002 was a year for the record book. The Buckeyes rode the strong shoulders of freshman sensation, Maurice Clarett, to a perfect season and the National Championship. Clarett was being mentioned for the Heisman Trophy as the best player in the country after just a couple of games. Funny the difference a year makes.
This past season started with a thud. Clarett was ruled ineligible for play due to accepting improper benefits from a family friend and then lying to investigators about it. Ohip State would have to petition the National Collegiate…
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Marry Your Local Rapist
''Winging It' from Stan Smith
There is a reasonably large portion of skeptics that like to claim that God requires rape victims to marry their rapist. "See," they conclude, "if God exists, He's evil!" (I cannot quite fathom why someone who believes no such being exists would wish to debate about the morality of such a being. I mean, the Chinese portray dragons as good and wise and the Europeans portray them as evil, but I'm not debating the existence of dragons based on whether or not they're either.) So, where do they get that claim?
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"If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed,…
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Don't Sink - Just Drink - Be Satisfied
'Word from Scotland' from Sandy Shaw
Isaiah Chapter 55 – "Come - all you who are thirsty - come to the waters - and you who have no money - come, buy and eat! Come - buy wine and milk - without money and without cost."
If anyone ever needed a relevant word from the Living God at this time - a Word that satisfies - a……
Maggie and Doris were complete strangers. Maggie was a retired department store clerk while Doris was a middle aged single woman. Maggie had lost her husband to cancer two years prior and had married children with families while Doris had no family left as an only child whose parents were killed in a car wreck. They were even raised in communities that were totally dissimilar.But here they were; roommates in a nursing care facility. Both women were stroke victims suffering…
Daily Refractions
Words to Ponder
Let no one suppose that we may attain to this true light and perfect knowledge, or life of Christ, by much questioning, or by hearsay, or by reading and study, nor yet by high skill and great learning. Yea, so long as a man taketh account of anything which is this or that, whether it be himself, or any other creature; or doeth anything, or frameth a purpose, for the sake of his own likings or desires or opinions or ends, he cometh not unto the life of Christ. - Theologia Germanica
'Daily Reading Plan'
from StudyLight.org
Bible-in-a-Year — NAS
Leviticus 13; Proverbs 25; Matthew 11:20-30:
"When someone has on the skin of his body a swelling, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes an infection of leprosy on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests. "The priest shall look at the infected area on the skin of the body, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the infection appears to be deeper than the skin of his body,…
