Category: Bible
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perseverance
Yes, I know, this post is REALLY late. I am pulling a late night in the office because I have so much to do today: besides “normal” work, I’m preparing to run a week-long arts camp next week as part of the outreach of Soli Deo Gloria Ballet. I am scheduling, arranging travel for, and…
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Abide in My Love
This morning I read John 15:9-12 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept the Father’s commandments, and abide in his love . . . This is my commandment, That ye…
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saintly service
Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. Him would Paul have to go forth…
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High Standards and Hypocrisy: Avoiding the Trap of a Divided Life
But nothing covered up isWhich shall not be uncovered,Nor hiddenWhich shall not be known;Wherefore whatever in the darkness ye said,In the light shall be heard;And what in the ear ye spoke in chambers,Shall be proclaimed upon housetops. (Luke 12:2-3, The Englishman’s Greek New Testament) If in life you do anything differently than other people–if you…
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Drunk on Worry (Sober and Free)
The apostle Peter, in his first letter to the saints, urged the people of God to “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” Many of us are well familiar with these verses, but we…