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Verse Meditation: Ezra 3.3
Altars to God “Despite their fear of the peoples around them, they built the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it for the LORD, both the morning and evening sacrifices” (Ezra...
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Verse Meditation: Ezra 3.13
When God Moves “The joyful shouting and weeping mingled together in a loud noise that could be heard far in the distance” (Ezra 3.13 NLT). As God’s purposes are brought to fruition, shouts of joy and...
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Little Revelations: A Sling and God
Often times we expect God to bring our promises into fruition using the most extraordinary resources and in the most trendiest of ways. But our eyes are stuck in the culture of our world, and we...
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Fight the Good Fight!
Once we receive salvation, God promises us peace. We will have peace knowing that we will spend eternity with God (John 10.29), peace knowing that we have purpose in Christ (Ephesians 1.11), peace...
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Verse Meditation: Esther 2.15
Trusting the Helper “When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abilhail the uncle of Mordecai, who had take her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai...
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Verse Meditation: Job 2.6
Why Do Bad Things Happen? “And the LORD said to Satan, ‘Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life’” (Job 2.6 ESV). The story of Job reaches into the heart of every believer in every season,...
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The Christmas Yearbook
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3.16 NIV). When I was a junior in high school, we had a spirit...
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Hand of Pretense
“Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others” (Philippians 2.4 ESV). My husband and I brought our kids to a large, local park, sprawled along the the gulf...
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Today is the Day by Bil Cornelius
“Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that...
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Tooth Moral
I gave my eldest son (nine years old) one of my old cameras. He loves to use it to take photos of his beloved plants. One night, my middle child (seven years old) was just about to lose his second...
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Messy, Large Harvest
“Without oxen a stable stays clean, but you need a strong ox for a large harvest.” – Proverbs 14.4 (NLT). If we complain about the mess that comes with our calling, we are in essence begrudging the...
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Verse Meditation: Haggai 1.13
I Am with You “Then Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, spoke to the people with the Lord’s message, ‘I am with you, declares the Lord’” (Haggai 1.13 ESV). If God says He is with us, there is nothing...
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Verse Meditation: Ephesians 2.10
Masterpiece “For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago” (Ephesians 2.10 NLT). God has a plan. We don’t live on an...
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Verse Meditation: Philippians 3.14
Upward Call “I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3.14 NKJV). People can have many goals—get married, have children, earn a degree, create...
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Verse Meditation: 1 Timothy 4.14
Prophetic Gifting “Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid their hands on you” (1 Timothy 4.14 NIV). Although it would be nice, not all...
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Verse Meditation: 1 Timothy 6.19
True Life “In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life” (1 Timothy 6.19 NIV). Paul is...
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Verse Meditation: James 1.6
Blown and Tossed “But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind” (James 1.6 NIV). God gives us some amazing promises...
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Verse Meditation: James 3.7-8
Tame Tongue “People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish, but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison” (James 3.7-8 NLT). Taming the tongue will...
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Verse Meditation: James 4.3
Motives “When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures” (James 4.3 NIV). Many times we don’t realize that our motives are...
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Verse Meditation: 1 Peter 1.7
The Value of Faith “These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus...
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