Archive: Devotions
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Sep 22, 2011
No CommentsVerse – Romans 5:1
..since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1 Can you say you have peace with God? I look out on my friends and this world around me and I have to say I don’t see the peace that they claim they have. Our lives...
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Sep 20, 2011
No CommentsVerse – Psalm 51:6-7
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Psalms 51:6-7 We KNOW that our hearts are deceitful & incurable (Jer 17:9) but what is this “secret heart”?...
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Aug 17, 2011
No CommentsVerse: 1 Timothy 6:20-21
Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. 1 Timothy 6:20-21 In this final instruction in 1st Timothy there is clear instructions to avoid the thinking of the “rich” in earthly possessions. One of the discussions I most often have with unChristian...
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Aug 12, 2011
No CommentsVerse: Ephesians 3:11-13
This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. Ephesians 3:11-12 We are to have boldness as we approach God… Boldness: not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or...
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Aug 10, 2011
No CommentsVerse: Colossians 3:16-17
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through...
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Aug 05, 2011
No CommentsWitnessing : Faith in power of God
1 Corinthians 2:2-6 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith...
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Aug 04, 2011
No CommentsWe are what we preach?
Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. This morning my wife asked me “Why do you post verses every day on facebook?” My response was “So many people post their own spin of the...
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Jul 25, 2011
No CommentsWho’s writing do you study?
I get asked who’s writings and teachings I read and I rattle off a few from the top of my head, I went to write a list and of course I put the Bible first… but then I started looking at my list and I realized that I read a lot of people who have errors in their theology....
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Jul 23, 2011
No CommentsPsalms 23
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I...
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Jul 19, 2011
No CommentsFolly and a raging heart.
When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord. Proverbs 19:3 It amazes me every day people that blame God for their trouble. Couple things in this verse stand out to me. Man’s folly: This is man’s doing, his sin, his efforts, his action, not God’s. Man’s way: This...
