Discouragement and intimidation hinder us from being our best selves. To be discouraged is to “be deprived of courage or confidence; disheartened; to hinder by disfavoring.” In other words when you are discouraged you cease to live courageously. Secondly, intimidation. Intimidation means “to make timid or fearful; to compel or deter by or as if byContinue reading “It Came to Pass!”
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Things are never as bad as they seem!
Things are never as bad as they seem. Challenges always first appear overwhelming. Even if challenges come in as ferocious as a hurricane or tsunami, still challenges are not as bad as they seem. Now this is the testimony of the person who believes in God. Things are not as bad as they seem becauseContinue reading “Things are never as bad as they seem!”
You Can Handle It!
“No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he’ll never let you be pushed past your limit; he’ll always be there to help you come through it.” Continue reading “You Can Handle It!”
Preparing to Preach: Prayer
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Prayer is one of the most important and most neglected steps in preparing to preach. These days, the church is all about the latest method, statistics and even gimmicks. Prayer however is not any of these. Instead, prayer, simply put, is just communication with God. Somehow it can get…
489. Amazing Things
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“He Still Has Some Issues To Work Out”
Oh, that all of us would see the best of us in each of us. Then “bear one another’s burdens in love” would be doable.
488. The Next Chapter
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What the Resurrection Means to Me
“I wish I could do it all over again;” “I wish I could take it back.” These phrases depict some of the times in my life when I have hurt, insulted, or denigrated someone. When I have said or did someone wrong, my heart’s cry is to turn the tables around, push the rewindContinue reading “What the Resurrection Means to Me”
What a Mighty God We Serve
“Surely you must realize what I and the other kings of Assyria before me have done to all the people of the earth! Were any of the gods of those nations able to rescue their people from my power? Which of their gods was able to rescue its people from the destructive power of myContinue reading “What a Mighty God We Serve”
Motivation for Service
“If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love,Continue reading “Motivation for Service”