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What I’ve Learned About God By Being A Teacher
A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master.Matthew 10:24-25a As a teacher’s kid, the one thing I never wanted to be when I grew up was a teacher. When my Mom said…
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What I’ve Learned About God By Being A Parent
The Lord your God in your midst,The Mighty One, will save;He will rejoice over you with gladness,He will quiet you with His love,He will rejoice over you with singing.Zephaniah 3:17 We have two daughters getting married this spring. At this point, it’s one wedding down and one to go. When my children were small, I…
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What I’ve Learned About God By Being A Nurse
Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.Acts 10:34-35 Today is National Nurses Day in the United States, and this coming Friday is International Nurses Day. Today’s post was written by my sister…
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He Said, She Said
And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no…
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Is God Safe?
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.Hebrews 10:31 It seems like during the covid quarantine I heard the term “cost-benefit analysis” more than ever before. A cost-benefit analysis is really just a fancy pros and cons list, sometimes put together in retrospect. In business I guess it’s pretty…
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Fighting Against God
Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life….Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? “Father,…
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Wait Worthy
That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near. And the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed after, and they observed the tomb and how His body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment. Luke 23:54-56 Low…
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What A Fool Believes
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”Psalm 14:1 Does anyone else remember the old Doobie Brothers song, “What a Fool Believes”? It’s about a man who meets up with an old flame hoping to rekindle it. For her it’s just an exercise in nostalgia. “But what a fool believes he sees,…
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Before The Decree Is Issued
Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O undesirable nation, before the decree is issued, or the day passes like chaff, before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you, before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you! Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth, who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek…
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God Is With Us When We Suffer
And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs. Then she went and sat down across from him at a distance of about a bowshot; for she said to herself, “Let me not see the death of the boy.” So she sat opposite him, and…
Walk Worthy 