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Heart Check
This passage (actually the whole chapter) is a great heart check for Christ followers. We really need to examine ourselves often against this, because it is so vital to the cause of Christ that we do…
Created 10 months ago
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Keep Me Humble
Dear God, Please help me to keep my pride in check. You alone know how I can allow my pride to get in the way and you alone know how I can allow others to push me into that area of pride. I don't want…
Created about 1 year ago
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Amen or Ouch?
I had a teacher in my Bible college (Elim) that would say, "if you can't say 'amen' then say 'ouch'". This verse reminds me of that saying but with a different twist, because it focuses more on what we…
Created about 1 year ago
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Is My Church Messy?
This passage in Mark says that disreputable sinners hung out around Jesus. If that was the kind of the people that followed Jesus when He walked the earth then why is it that so many of our churches are…
Created about 1 year ago
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Thankfulness Is a Sacrifice?
Far too often we forget to be thankful for the things that we have and instead we complain more about what we don't have. I had some friends who recently came back from Haiti and everyone I have ever…
Created about 1 year ago
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Praying For Your "Enemies"
I forget who it was that said to "keep your friends close and your enemies even closer", but I think of that quote when I read this verse. God has laid it on my heart that there are people in my life…
Created over 1 year ago
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Stay Golden
I love the movie "The Outsiders" and I love the line when Johnny says to Ponyboy that he needs to stay golden. There is so much depth and meaning to that statement. If you haven't seen the movie then…
Created over 1 year ago
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Maturity
In the beginning Joseph looked at the dream as him being a ruler over his brothers. In the end he realized that God had done what He did not so much for Joseph to rule over his brothers, but to preserve…
Created over 1 year ago
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Following Him
I spent 4.5 years waiting for God to tell me where to go and this passage helped me through that time. I admired Abraham's faith to be willing to go wherever that God wanted him to go and how he just…
Created over 2 years ago
