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  • Jeremiah 17:7-8 NLT

    7 “But blessed are those who trust in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence. 8 They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees…

    Created 4 months ago

  • Satisfy

    When money is our objective, we must live in fear of losing it, which makes us paranoid and suspicious. When fame is our aim, we become competitive lest others upstage us, which makes us envious. When…

    Created 4 months ago

    Philippians 1:21 (NLT)

  • Break Barriers, visible and invisible

    Have you ever tried to get to the front at a packed concert to catch a closer glimpse of your favourite artist? Have you ever been a bridesmaid at a wedding amidst a throng of hysterical women fighting…

    Created 4 months ago

  • SURRENDER

    We can put a lot of pressure on ourselves to produce "successful" kids, and there is no question that parenting requires a lot of hard work. But, what exactly is our role in the process? In this passage,…

    Created 4 months ago

  • Understanding Our Wives

    God's Word says, "Husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way." We don't naturally understand our wives needs when we are wrapped up in our own little world. Understanding means love, unselfishness,…

    Created 4 months ago

  • Exodus 20:12 NLT

    Exodus 20:12 NLT “Honor your father and mother. Then you will live a long, full life in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Grace, God's Power Freely Given

    Grace, God's Power Freely Given If you've been in the world very long, you've learned that there are very few days that go exactly the way we'd like them to go. Thankfully, God is never going to put…

    Created 4 months ago

  • KNOWLEDGE VS. WISDOM

    The education of our children can be an all-consuming passion. We struggle to get them into the right schools, starting with preschool and continuing through graduate school. But we must keep in mind…

    Created 4 months ago

    1 Corinthians 1:20 (NLT), 1 Corinthians 1:21 (NLT)

  • Success Involves Help From Others

    Success Involves Help From Others To reach your goals you need to enlist a team for support. I've been to Africa many times and heard this proverb over and over: "If you want to go fast, go by yourself.…

    Created 4 months ago

    Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NIV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes

    2012-02-05

  • Parenting By Design Daily Devotional

    POWER FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT Parenting is a tough job, but we have the ultimate Helper to guide us. When we became believers, we were filled with the source of parenting wisdom — the Holy Spirit. When confronted…

    Created 4 months ago

    1 Corinthians 2:12 (NIV), 1 Corinthians 2:13 (NIV)

  • Imagine that you are at a healing service. An alcoholic…

    Imagine that you are at a healing service. An alcoholic walks into the church reeking of alcohol. He sits behind the pianist, a nice elderly lady who has been serving in the church for 50 years. Both…

    Created 4 months ago

    Galatians 3:5 (KJV)

  • Earned a Badge — Completed 3 Reading Plans

    2011-11-26

  • 1 Corinthians 13:7

    1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT)
    Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Jeremiah 29:11

    Jeremiah 29:11 (NLT)
    For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

    Created 7 months ago

  • The Full Armor of God

    Ephesians 6:10-12 NIV Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against…

    Created 7 months ago

  • Marital Sex

    Do you realize how positive the Bible is about sex in marriage? Listen to God's Word: "The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise, the wife to her husband." God's Word goes…

    Created 7 months ago

  • Wisdom of God vs. Wisdom Of Man

    Have you ever thought about mankind's endless search for truth in this world? Think about it. Even in the twenty-first century, in a time of the greatest knowledge in the history of man with all the technological…

    Created 7 months ago

  • Self Made Man

    There is no such thing as a self-made man. It's an American myth. The fact is we are all indebted to someone. Think about it. Most of you were born in America. Did you have any part in that decision?…

    Created 7 months ago

  • Right from The Heart Daily Devotional

    Matthew 23:28 NIV In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

    Created 7 months ago

    Matthew 23:28 (NIV)

  • What is a Covenant?

    What is a covenant? It is like a contract. Yet, it is more than a contract. A contract is binding only for a period of time, like five years or seven years, or until certain terms are fulfilled. But a…

    Created 7 months ago

  • A Clean Life

    Ephesians 5:6-7 NLT 6 Don’t be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the anger of God will fall on all who disobey him.7 Don’t participate in the things these people do.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Parenting By Design Daily Devotion

    James 1:19-20 NLT 19 Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.20 Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.

    Created 7 months ago

    James 1:19 (NLT)

  • Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan

    2011-10-28

  • Psalm 27:4

    Psalm 27:4 (NIV)
    One thing I ask from the lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the lord and to seek him in his temple.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created 100 Highlights

    2011-10-25

  • The Story of Esther

    John 15:1 (NLT)
    “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-10-25

  • Parenting By Design Daily Devotional

    DISCIPLINE, CHARACTER, and HOPE When our children suffer, whether from their own bad choices or those of someone else, we want so badly to rescue them from the pain or to tell them how to avoid finding…

    Created 7 months ago

  • Psalm 139:14

    Psalm 139:14 (NLT)
    Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Living A Divinely Inspired Life

    Psalm 139:13 (NLT)
    You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan

    2011-10-23

  • Instructions For Christian Households

    Colossians 3:12 (NIV)
    Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

    Colossians 3:18 (NIV)
    Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference

    2011-10-22

  • Hebrews 13:2

    Hebrews 13:2 (ASV)
    Forget not to show love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

    Created 7 months ago

  • 2 Peter 2:9

    2 Peter 2:9 (NLT)
    So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment.

    Created 11 months ago

  • 1 Peter 5:6

    1 Peter 5:6 (NLT)
    So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor.

    Created 11 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights

    2011-07-12

  • Matthew 5:6

    Matthew 5:6 (NLT)
    God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied.

    Created 11 months ago

  • Matthew 5:5

    Matthew 5:5 (NLT)
    God blesses those who are humble, for they will inherit the whole earth.

    Created 11 months ago

  • BeAtItUdEs

    Matthew 5:3-4 (NLT)
    “God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.

    Created 11 months ago

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  • Philippians 1:4

    Philippians 1:4 (NIV)
    In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Philippians 1:9

    Philippians 1:9 (NIV)
    And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Philippians 1:10

    Philippians 1:10 (NIV)
    so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Philippians 1:11

    Philippians 1:11 (NIV)
    filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2011-05-07

  • 1 John 1:5

    1 John 1:5 (NIV)
    This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • 1 John 1:6

    1 John 1:6 (NIV)
    If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • 1 John 1:7

    1 John 1:7 (NIV)
    But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Philippians 3:4

    Philippians 3:4 (NIV)
    though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • 1 John 5:14

    1 John 5:14 (ASV)
    And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • 1 John 5:15

    1 John 5:15 (ASV)
    and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Matthew 6:14

    Matthew 6:14 (ASV)
    For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Matthew 6:16

    Matthew 6:16 (ASV)
    Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen of men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2011-05-01

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-05-01