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Value of Reading the Bible with Your Child
The value of reading the Bible with your child is so rewarding.
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Okay, God. What’s My Job?
Live according to God’s will. My life is what it is in spite of my efforts. God’s will is done regardless of my support or efforts. However, when I actively seek God’s will and strive to live it out in my life, things go much better. The struggle, I suppose, for most of us is that we fail to feel confident in knowing God’s will. I don’t know that there is a magic formula to having complete confidence in this—we are after all livings as sinners in a fallen world. However, I do think there are things we can do to support our understanding and assurance. Pray. Study the word.…
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Okay, God. What’s my Job?
Stop judging I confess, I can be a judgmental person. I never used to think so. Perhaps because I grew up in a judgmental church and, subsequently, a judgmental family. We were the “good Christians”. You know the ones. Go to church every Sunday. Sunday school. Vacation Bible School. Parents worked and paid bills. Kids behaved and did well in school. It was okay for us to judge since we had it so together, right? And, it’s not like we went out of our way to publicly judge people or tell them to their face they were bad or doing things wrong. Nope, we sat around the table on Sunday…
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A Devotional for the Anxious Heart: Romans 5:3-
Scripture: “Not only that, but we rejoice in our suffering, knowing that suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope.” (Romans 5:3-4 ESV) Thought: These verses focus on the attitude and orientation of man. However, the way they are presented infers that God and his promises are worthy of both our patience and our suffering. He does not create circumstances for our suffering, but he certainly see us in our suffering and calls us to him. We can grow stronger in character and faith through our challenges and suffering. Application: Seek him always, but especially in the eye of the storm. He is doing a work in…