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Encouraging Words…

It is such a blessing to know that our God has always been and always will be. In today’s world where so many things are here today and gone tomorrow being a part of eternity is refreshing and freeing. It is also refreshing and freeing to know that His church can be found today practicing its faith in many ways just as it did when it was established nearly 2,000 years ago.

Encouraging Words…

We are so blessed to have our Lord as the One whom we can put our trust in. In Him we do not need to fear anyone or anything. Through Him we can live our lives without fear of what man may try to do to us.

Personal Challenge…

Faith is such a critical part of the Christian journey, but is not the end all. Our faith comes from God and draws us to Him, but it is the works that we do from within that faith that refines us on our journey. We must be living our lives for Him through the work that we do for Him.

Personal Challenge…

We are commanded to be on the alert, stand firm and to be strong…but that is all to be tempered and done in love. Love for God and love for our fellow mankind. I think that we all too often believe that we must be aggressive and overbearing in the way that we present Christ to those around us. This is not the case. We are to do all that we do in love…and that means everything.

Personal Challenge…

Oh, to be as strong and courageous as Paul. Knowing full well what his fate was going to be if he went back to Jerusalem he still went…for the sake of his Lord and Savior. Is the day coming where we who claim to follow Christ will have to make this same decision? Will I be able to be as committed as Paul was? My prayer is that by the grace of God I would.

Personal Challenge…

One of the hardest things to remember every day, throughout the day, is that it is not about me! I so often forget and begin to wonder when things will go my way. If I can remember to focus on Christ and what He wants of me then I will also begin to focus on others and what their needs are. Won’t that make life so much different?

Personal Challenge…

How we live our life all comes down to the state of our heart. Here we are told to guard our heart, to protect it, because our heart drives who we are and how we act.

Encouraging Words…

What more can I say? It is indeed wonderful to have lived a life since my childhood with my Lord as my hope.

Personal Challenge…

As we enter into the final, and often aggressive, stage of the election season it becomes all the more important for those of us who claim to be followers of Christ to be reminded of our role within our society. We are commanded to live our lives in subjection to our leaders and authorities. Elsewhere in the scripture we are reminded that our leaders are in positions of authority by God’s appointment. We can follow the process available to us to elect new leaders, and we should do so in an informed and prayerful way, but we are still expected to respect those in authority. This may be challenging when we believe the current leaders are not what we think they should be, but this like so many other “opportunities”in life, become part of our journey of theosis, to be like Christ.

Personal Challenge…

It is so easy to get caught up in the vernacular of the day and to start speaking in a way that cuts little microscopic slices in those around us. It has become the norm, what we in our home often call the “Jerry Seinfeld” way of talking to people. We often read a verse like this and say that it doesn’t apply to me because I don’t tear people down. Even if we just do little cuts and digs we are still slicing away at someones person. The scriptures tells us to have no unwholesome word proceed from our mouths. Something that I need to watch continually so that I can be building up those whom God has put into my life.