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The Happy File
The Happy File It wasn’t what some would call a perfect day, but to her it was special. We had spent the day together just hanging out around the house. Simple things like eating lunch on the deck, soaking up the sunshine and giggling over funny memories traced the outlinesRead More …
Encouragement: Words that Build Up
Encouragement: Words that Build Up Paul’s words admonish us to speak only good, not corrupt, words—ones that build up, encourage and edify. Our words are to constitute a gift to the hearer (Eph 4:29). Jesus and Paul are examples for us in their use of uplifting words to encourage. EvenRead More …
Ephesians 4:29
29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. EPH.4.29
Pride Vs. Humility
Pride Vs. Humility It’s not hard to see the irony in this turn of events. Haman was on his way to recommend that Mordecai be hanged, yet he unknowingly is recommending that Mordecai be honored and given the royal treatment. “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall”Read More …
Esther 6:4-10
4 The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to speak to the king about impaling Mordecai on the pole he had set up for him. 5 His attendants answered, “Haman is standing in the court.” “Bring him in,”Read More …
Philippians 4:11-13
11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in anyRead More …
Contentment
Contentment For many Americans, the pursuit of self-fulfillment and personal happiness has become a religion. Even Christians have bought into this religion of self-actualization, pursuing God only because they see him as an agent for happiness. They want happiness, and they think they can use God to get it. InRead More …
1 Timothy 4:12
12 Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. 1TIM.4.12
Timothy: An Unlikely Leader
Timothy: An Unlikely Leader Nothing can make someone more unlikely—even unwilling—to lead than feelings of inadequacy. Timothy, the young protégé of the apostle Paul, must have felt much as Moses did when God called him to lead Israel out of Egyptian captivity. Moses felt inadequate for the task, and likelyRead More …
Heed the Call
Heed the Call Paul wrote Ephesians 4:1 from a jail cell. One of the most prolific and influential writers in the history of mankind considered it a privilege to pen these words in the place God called him to be—prison. What an example for us as parents to recognize ourRead More …
D5 Creation