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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Others May, You Cannot – G. D. Watson


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If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. (Matthew 16:24-25) This came from a tract written by G.D. Watson (1845-1924) called Others May, […]

05/19/2011

Come To Me


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By George MacDonald Come to me, come to me, O my God; Come to me everywhere! Let the trees mean thee, and the grassy sod, And the water and the air! For thou art so far that I often doubt, As on every side I stare, Searching within, and looking without, If thou canst be […]

05/15/2011

Pursuing God


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As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. -Psa. 42:1 One of my favorite devotionals of late is called Voices from the Past Edited by Richard Rushing. It is a compilation of puritan devotional readings for every day of the year. Every morning I wake up, I look […]

05/11/2011

Captive or Captivated?


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Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.” – Luke 21:36 In our battle against sin, it does not matter if we win or lose. Victory belongs to the Lord. […]

04/20/2011

Adopted By God


Devotional, MorningMeds

In Chapter 19 entitled Sons of God in this same book, Knowing God, J.I. Packer talked about how difficult it is to bring an adopted child into your home and to what great lengths adoptive parents have to go in order to develop a relationship with that child. He says: “The establishing of the child’s […]

04/18/2011

Children of God


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See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! 1 John 3:1 I happened to read something that melted my heart on what it means to be a Christian. I picked up a book on my nightstand called Knowing God […]

04/13/2011

The Angelic Watchmen of the Lord


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The following is a wonderful story that I read in Mrs. Charles E Cowman’s devotional Springs in the Valley back on February 10th and noted the page. It is a  very encouraging story regarding the power of prayer and angelic protection as told by a Moravian missionary. An American missionary and his wife bravely went […]

04/08/2011

The Right Thing


Devotional, Wednesday Woman

“And as for you, brothers, never tire of doing what is right.” 2 Thessalonians 3:13 Dear Father, Help me do the right thing. Now that sounds so easy to my ears and I have muttered it so many times without giving it a whole lot of thought. But my prayer today and I hope for […]

04/03/2011

Declaring His Excellence


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But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. – 1 Peter 2:9 Our purpose is to declare the excellencies of God. What an amazing calling we have! […]

03/29/2011

John Owen’s Seven Considerations for Killing Sin


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John Owen’s  seven considerations for mortification: 1. Consider the dangerous symptoms of lust; 2. Get a clear sense of :      a. the guilt of the sin,      b. its manifold danger,      c. the evil of it; 3. Load your conscience with the guilt of the perplexing sin; 4. Have a vehement desire for […]

03/24/2011