“Your personal convictions [on such matters]—exercise [them] as in God’s presence, keeping them to yourself [striving only to know the truth and obey His will]. Blessed (happy, to be envied) is he who has no reason to judge himself for what he approves [who does not convict himself by what he chooses to do]. But […]
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A few months ago I used the following scripture as the focus for a post. I’m using 2 Timothy 1:12 again… but with a different perspective/emphasis. “I am not ashamed; for I know Him [and I am personally acquainted with Him] whom I have believed [with absolute trust and confidence in Him and in the
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Are you? Don’t you realize who You are and Whose you are? Don’t you realize that if you’ve made Jesus your Lord, that you are a new creation!? Read 2 Corinthians 5: 17-21 and discover YOU! Do you believe you have potential? You do… even if you’ve been told that (fill in the blank) is
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It’s true you know. Many times the devil will use the most insignificant, the Itty Bitty things of life, to trip us up. You’d think that after a number of these incidents that we’d get smarter… not necessarily. Experience doesn’t always bring wisdom. We typically are on guard against the larger temptations and/or seductions and
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“And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of Him.” [1 John 5: 14-15, ESV] 1 John is
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Does that sound as lame as it looks? Probably. But, like me, do you ever feel that way? Come on… be honest, you do. And the ‘not wanting to’ has absolutely nothing to do with the ‘activity’ or the people involved… it simply is that there are moments that whatever it is with whoever they
Back in 2011 I wrote a blog post titled: ‘Poverty Mentality’. I sometimes believe we in ’21 are caught in the grip of this thinking. Legitimately, from a standpoint of the world’s standards, it could be argued that this is true. But, for just a moment, think not about the carnal issues of life but
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Have you begun thinking about THE future? It’s only days till the new year. What would you like YOUR new year to be about? Once you think about this, as dispassionately as possible, it’s not really possible to ‘return’ to what was and it may be questionable to continue what currently is. There’s a bit
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I found it interesting that the ‘Title’ of Romans 8 is stated as: Escape from Bondage in the AMP, The Solution is Life on God’s terms in the MSG, Life in the Spirit in the TLV and ESV, Deliverance from Bondage in the NASP , and Free from Indwelling Sin in the NKJV. Escape, Life,
Have you ever seriously considered the Bible as God’s love letter to His creation? To be perfectly honest… I don’t think I ever did. Perhaps I consider (especially in light of 1 Corinthians 13) I may have looked at the New Testament in this light, but not the Old Testament. Not certain that I ever
Just write down any questions that you may have and I will get back to you in a jiffy!