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  • Bible and Quote - November 23-25
         'Bible verse and quote' from Jan Couns

    The LORD has heard my supplication; The LORD will receive my prayer. Psalm 6:9 Rather than repeated repetitions; reexamine, realign and revise prayer until there is a resolve that it is within God’s preferred will. Let all my enemies be ashamed (confounded) and greatly troubled; Let them turn back and be ashamed suddenly. Psalm 6:10 For what good can thy neighbor's ill do for thee? If he had no ill, he would not even be thine enemy. (Pray) that he may end his ill, and he will be thine enemy no longer. St. Augustine You will be made rich in every…

  • Think on These Things.
         'God's Words For US' from Cecelia Lester

    Journal entry April 14,1997 Today’s scripture reading, Philippians 4:8-9, causes me to stop and think. “Whatever is true:” I shared some information ‘as I saw it’ yesterday evening about two different situations that I was aware of. One concerned an elderly lady who kept violating confidences and reacting to her surroundings. The other lady only came to God on her terms and as long as it didn’t hurt her to worship God, if she felt she had to change then she {stayed away and} came back in times of crisis and only on her terms (looking…

  • His Purpose
         'Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life' from Tom Kelley

    A newspaper that is curculated in the Louisville, Kentucky area ran a story on Kentucky basketball in this week's rag. They tied the idea of "passion" into it, which, in and of itself, was not a problem. However, the front cover showed Jesus holding a basketball with the story's caption emblazoned in print reminiscent of the move, "The Passion of the Christ", just below the picture of Jesus. The owner of the paper said that he was not mocking the Lord in any way. One of his deliverers saw it differently. David Wine refused to deliver the paper saying it was, indeed, a mockery…

  • Taking God's Position
         ''Winging It' from Stan Smith

    We are Christians. We are to be disciples of Christ -- learners of Christ, students of Christ. We are to be constantly "transformed by the renewal of your mind" (Romans 12:2). We are to be drawing reality from the source of reality -- God Himself -- which He offers in His Word. It is God-breathed, so by the help of the Holy Spirit, we should be able to see truth there that a world blinded by the god of this world will certainly miss. With that truth we ought to be correcting our own fallen views by replacing them with God's position on things. The process itself is fairly…

  • A Good Conversationalist
         'The Way' from Kevin Pauley

    The prayer of the upright is His delight. – Proverbs 15:8 What if your loved ones only communicated with you in prescribed, rote, memorized fashion? What if they never deviated from certain written phrases? No matter how eloquent the phrases, wouldn’t you be disappointed? If my children only addressed me when they wanted something and did it in a very formal, ritualized fashion (in old English) it would drive me crazy! “Our Father, who art in the living room, how handsome thou art today,” they might say. “Thy fatherhood be established, thy will…

  • Snow (1-18-11)
         'Today's Little Lift' from Jim Bullington

    The Sunny South is an expression I have heard all my life. I was born here and I have lived here all my life. I have ventured into the northern states a few times during the winter months and was always glad to get home to a more moderate clime. Last week in Atlanta was an entirely different and unprecedented week for the Sunny South. What fell as about a three or four inch snow proved to be our match. In fact as I was driving to work on Thursday (one of only three days I was able to get to the office due to icy road conditions), I spotted a white flag marking one of the holes on…

  • Can This Possibly Be Possible Yes, It Is
         'Word from Scotland' from Sandy Shaw

    In Luke Chapter 10 we have a lesson which we all know and acknowledge – but can have difficulty in applying it to our own personal lives. It is possible that we are too busy doing things that we do not have time to love God - and that comes out in verses 38 to 42. Jesus goes……

  • Ignoring signals from God?
         'Refreshment in Refuge' from Gina Burgess

    No one understands God's perfect ways or even why God acts in such a way for some and in another way for others. How do we even know for sure we are walking in His will? We can't see the future. Our feelings are fickle. We can't control other people's decisions. So how do we walk down that specific path God has lighted for us? We live in a very imperfect world and since we don't control other people, we can't be responsible for their choices. The only alternative we have, then, is to walk the closest we can to the Lord God Almighty and expect Him to turn us from the…

  • Merry Christmas to All and to All a Mighty Dose of Hope
         'Voice of Inspiration' from Andy Castro

    The title was "10 Things You Can Do to Finish Strong, and Focus Forward" by Brian Holmes. (http://www.brianholmes.com/065) Brian Holmes is one of my favorite bloggers and he always has something good to say. He gives practical information blended with his faith and I always come away with something good from his blogs and podcast. What struck me most about the 10 things he listed, though all were good, was number 4. It states as follows. Be ruthless with unbelief and negativity. Personally I believe this should be number 1. It is the beginning of what it will take to…

  • The Tower
         ''Christ in You...'' from Dale Krebbs

    “And the whole earth was of one language and of one accent and mode of expression. And as they journeyed eastward, they found a plain (valley) in the land of Shinar, and they settled and dwelt there. And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. So they had brick for stone, and slime (bitumen) for mortar. And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top reaches into the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the whole earth.” - Genesis 11:1-4 Why the tower of Babel? To repopulate the…

  • The Power of the Tongue
         'Inspiration For You' from Randy Mitchell

    I was sitting in a church auditorium recently, listening to a preacher talk about the power words have on us all, both written and spoken, and the great impact they convey to those around us. It was a well articulated speech, causing me to think about how large a role words play in our lives. Words are extremely powerful— carrying the strength to heal or wound, encourage or discourage, speak truth or deceive, praise or criticize. In fact, the Bible says that death and life are in the power of the tongue. Since that’s true, controlling what we say and how we…

Daily Devotionals
Every now and then the odd but true catches my eye. You know, the kind of story that makes you go, "Hmmmm." The poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley was one who could not swim. In fact, most believed him to be afraid of the water. Yet, he mustered his courage one day and, acting on a whim that he would like to swim, he dove into a deep pool of water in which his friends were enjoying themselves. He nearly drowned…
Daily Dose
Daily Toon
Daily Refractions
Daily Wisdom
Proverbs 10:31 - The mouth of the righteous flows with wisdom, But the perverted tongue will be cut out.
Words to Ponder
Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there. - Catherine of Siena
'Daily Reading Plan' from StudyLight.org
Bible-in-a-Year — NAS
2 Kings 22:1-23:35; Nahum 3; 2 Corinthians 9:
He did what was right in the sight of the LORD and walked entirely in the way of his father David, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. Now in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying, "Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, and have him count all the money brought into the house of the LORD, which the…
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