God’s Hidden Arrangement

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I spent this past weekend assembling a detailed 3D book-nook puzzle, one of those miniature architectural scenes made of dozens upon dozens of tiny wooden pieces. Each piece had been precisely cut with notches so small they were nearly invisible, yet every one fit only in a single location. The instructions required an exact order. […]

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A Christ Centered Christmas

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Each year, “Merry Christmas” is spoken more cautiously, if it is spoken at all. In its place, “Happy Holidays” has become the safer greeting, offered under the banner of politeness, neutrality, and inclusiveness. Just last week, after wishing a gentleman “Merry Christmas” over the phone, he replied with a carefully neutral “Happy Holidays.” These exchanges […]

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Sanctified Journaling

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“Record all special favors, mercies, providences, and experiences.Little do you know the advantages that will redound to your souls upon this.” – Thomas Brooks, Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks I began journaling as a teenager, long before I knew Christ. What began as a class assignment soon became a nightly ritual. I would open my […]

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Cultivating Reverence for the Holiness of God

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Reverence does not grow in the heart by accident. Scripture never treats it as a passing feeling or a heightened emotion that comes and goes with the seasons of the soul. Reverence is the posture formed when the heart sees God as He truly is, and bows beneath the weight of that truth with joy […]

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Psalms Introduction Part 1


Bible Study

The book of Psalms is one of the most beloved books of the bible.  This is one book you do not need to give people directions to locate in the bible.  Everyone knows how to get there by simply opening their bibles, they naturally open up to the book of Psalms being at the center […]

03/24/2015

Fighting the Good Fight


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“Receive every inward and outward trouble, every disappointment, pain, uneasiness, temptation, darkness and desolation with both hands as a true opportunity and blessed occasion of dying to self and entering into fuller fellowship with thy self-denying and suffering. Savior. Look at no inward or outward trouble in any other way. Reject every other thought about […]

02/28/2015

How to Enjoy a Bible Study for All It’s Worth


Bible Study

We read the bible differently than we read any other book. One reason is because of it’s sheer size. We can’t read the bible in one sitting. It’s too much to take in. Sometimes an entire chapter or even a short verse can be too much to take in during one sitting. We have to […]

02/14/2015

Beware of Little Sins


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“It is easier to keep the enemy out than it is to expel him after he has gained entrance.” – Author Unknown Charles Spurgeon preached a sermon entitled  Little Sins on April 17, 1859.   It’s a warning about the danger of little sins in our lives. How we have a tendency to let them slide […]

01/10/2015

Loving in Truth – 2 John


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Tonight we start a new letter written by John to a Christian lady. In it we will have many of the truths we learned in 1 John repeated and demonstrated. “This epistle is more remarkable for the spirit of Christian love which it breathes than for anything else. It contains scarcely anything that is not […]

07/29/2014

A Cloud of Witnesses – 1 John 5:6-13


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 Last week we talked about four birthmarks identifying the children of God. The children of God are marked by: A belief that Jesus is the Christ. (John 5:1) A love for God the Father. (John 5:1) A love for all those born of God. (John 5:1) A love for God the Father (1 John 5:2) […]

07/21/2014

Love Casts Out Fear – 1 John 4:13-21


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 I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.” – Blaise Pascal I ran across this quote by Blaise Pascal while I was trying to remember something else he had once said that I had read and it made me laugh because this is so true. I […]

06/30/2014

Love is of God – 1 John 4:7-12


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7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, […]

06/17/2014