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We both used the same word but we each meant something entirely different by it. It is a word that is often used the way he used it, but in my mind it could never mean what he wanted it to mean. So we called in the dictionaries. I confronted him with two dictionaries...
"In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." (Proverbs 3:6) There shall be no lying or deceit ... Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. The majority does not rule ... Thou shalt not...
It is 2:20 AM on Saturday morning and I could not sleep. I felt so impressed to open my Bible to Psalm 1. I know that I have read and reread this Psalm over a million times, but I want you to read it over again with me. 1 Blessed is _____________________[put your name...
"For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us." (2 Corinthians 1:20 NKJV) [1] Has God ever spoken to you through your spirit and given you a promise? After a while did it seem like God had forgotten the promise He gave to...
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." (Ps 19:1 NIV) God gave me another gentle reminder of what is essential this morning. I was rushing around trying to get too many things done at once and not doing any of them very well....
"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5:3 ASV)1 What does it mean to be poor in spirit? In the Greek language, the word which is used for "poor" here can also mean "beggar" or "beggarly". This means that if a person is...
Pain! Emotional pain! Physical pain! Financial pain! Spiritual pain! We all go through some kind of pain in our lives! Quite a few years ago, I was in a lot of pain in many areas of my life. I was in pain from morning till night. I was in pain all night long. All I...
"Just as there are many parts to our bodies, so it is with Christ's body. We are all parts of it, and it takes every one of us to make it complete, for we each have different work to do. So we belong to each other, and each needs all the others." (Romans 12:4-5, TLB)...
"God turned into good what you meant for evil." Genesis 50:20 Recently I read of something that happened during the Tsunami relief efforts. There was woman in a town in Thailand, whose baby died in the storm. Afterwards, she came to know the Lord, and she asked one of...
"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Eph 2:10 NIV) I have been trying for the last few weeks to reproduce our family’s homemade spaghetti sauce. It hasn’t been easy. My first...
"And when they came to Nachon's threshing floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by the ark of God."...
I opened the catalogue that is posted to me every few weeks and was mesmerized by the array of different Bibles. There were Bibles for men so I could not read them because I’m not. There were Bibles for surfers but I am a strictly land-dwelling species to I could not...
"Consider the work of God, For who is able to straighten what He has bent? In the day of prosperity be happy, But in the day of adversity consider — God has made the one as well as the other." (Eccl 7:13-14 13 NASU) Almost 20 years ago when I was still a college...