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Assured For Eternity
For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire? – 2 Samuel 23:5 (ESV) I love reading about King David. I just finished the story of his life, and the passage I have highlighted above is the recorded last words of David, probably written close to the time he passed the torch of his kingdom on to his son, Solomon. → Read more...
Praying For Our Daily Bread
God promises to take care of our basic needs. This is something that we tend to forget – often. Jesus points this out in several places, most prominently when he tells us not to worry in Matthew 6, “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.” I was reminded by this when I heard Pastor Ron’s Sunday sermon on the Lord’s Prayer taught by Jesus, especially the line, “Give us this day our daily bread.” → Read more...
God Has a Plan, Just Wait
I just finished reading the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis. Most of us know this story from Sunday School. It is one of the early Bible lessons that we learn. Joseph, the favorite of twelve sons, was sold into slavery to passing Arab merchants who, in turn, sold him to one of the prominent officials of an Egyptian pharaoh. Through his integrity and God’s blessing, he rose to prominence in the official’s household only to be thrown into jail after falsely being accused of adultery by the official’s wife. → Read more...
Give Us Each Day Our Daily Bread
It’s been a tough holiday season for me so far. Well, that’s not really true. I’m fine, but there are a few friends of mine who are going through some emotional turmoil from a wide range of events including losses of jobs and divorces. One friend of mine didn’t get a Christmas tree this year as she and her husband needed money for groceries. It’s always easier to read about things like that happening to other people in the newspaper or hear it on the television. → Read more...
You Are Dangerous, Part I
I’ve been dwelling heavily on the concept of temptation this week. Temptation is nothing new to us. It was there from the very beginning when Adam and Eve first laid eyes on the fruit that was sitting amid the leaves of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. I find it interesting that the Tree was right smack dab in the middle of the Garden of Eden (see Genesis 3:2) and that it was not until the serpent showed up that Eve began to even think about eating the fruit. → Read more...
A Journey Always Begins With a Single Step
January 12, 2015
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Matt
The human experience is rife of many wonderful, scary, intoxicating, boring, daunting and mystifying events. It’s been my experience that many things that we go through do not lend themselves to easy classification of one simple emotion. For instance, the birth of my oldest child, Caleb, was an experience that was simultaneously exhilarating, terrifying, sublime and bewildering. It was an amazing goop of emotions that were mixed inseparably with each other. Such was my experience becoming a parent for the first time. → Read more...
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