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I don't like morning -- it starts too early in the day. Yesterday morning was worse than most and started out bad from the get go. I always know it's going to be a lousy day when it begins with getting out of bed. I've had bronchitis for over a week, and to make...
"Sing joyfully to the LORD, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him. Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre. Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy." (Ps 33:1-3 NIV) The birds are singing again...
"In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe." (Heb 1:1-2 NIV) If I talk to God, I...
"let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." (Matt 5:16 NIV) It was in a very desolate part of town on a street I had to pass daily on my way back and forth to work. There stood some old dilapidated houses all...
I have been learning all my life. Or I presume that is how I got to be so smart. Oh yeah! I started out in Kindergarten at the age of five in a school in South St. Louis, MO. I really learned a lot in Kindergarten. First I learned how to get a vaccination. Ouch!! Then...
"By your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned." (Matthew 12:36) Your words, from infancy to this very moment are in heaven's court record. How are you doing? Is there evidence of your guilt? No doubt! Is there any evidence in your...
"In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith-of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire-may be proved genuine and may result in...
"Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me." (Psalm 51:12) Years ago, I went to a conference in Los Angeles. One of the speakers was H.B. London, who is known nationally as being a pastor to pastors in crisis. He spent over...
"Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met Him. The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry...
'Call to me and I will answer you. I'll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.' (Jeremiah 33:3) The air was thick with lovebugs as I drove along the turnpike. Each year, about this time, the lovebug phenomenon occurs. My...
"Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, 'Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,' says the Lord. 'But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals...
I was musing over how God provided manna from heaven to the Israelites and the thought struck me that it came from above. Not only did God provide food for the physical body to survive the wanderings in the desert, but the important and vital lesson is that every good...
"My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak….." (James 1:19) Have you ever been talking to someone and realize they are not hearing a word you say? Makes you feel so insignificant, doesn’t it? Have you ever just stopped talking right in the...