New Wineskins

Have you run into the grocery store bypassing the grocery carts because you only needed one or two items. Before you get to check-out your arms are loaded with other things you see. Something else you remembered you cannot get because your arms are loaded already....

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Blessings in Intercession

A short note today in relation to last Saturday's post Advocates for Bill and Terri: I had thought to reference this during the week but did not have time. Much of the week has been spent in intercession for Bill and Terri. Too, I have spent a considerable amount of...

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Showers of Blessing

And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. Ezekiel 34:26 I will not make this a long post ~ only to bring awareness again of the need for prayer and...

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The Immensity and Intensity of the Christian Faith

Or, we might use the title, The Immensity and Intensity of the Gospel. They are the same. There is no Christian faith without the Gospel. The Gospel is the means to a life of faith. It is more than just words spoken by men. The good news of Christ is more than men can...

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Love Your Enemies

“O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” 2 Kings 6:17 The king of Syria is perplexed as to how the king of Israel is evading him and his army. When he learns that the prophet Elisha is foiling his attacks, he sends his horses, a great army, and chariots at...

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A Sinner’s Prayer

In 2014, at the age of 75, I wrote this hymn as a witness of how, over many years, the Lord brought me to Himself. I set it to a tune to be sung as a solo but I plan to use a  familiar tune, instead, so that it can be sung in corporate worship. It is a hymn all true...

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Results of Word Survey

From the survey last week, seven responses netted forty-nine words, including three of my own that were different than your lists. I asked for words from a Christian view that are important to our relationship with God and others. Over the weekend I wondered and...

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The Recovering of Humility (pg. 3)

Humility is not new. In innocence and humility, our first parents were created. They depended on God and lived under His care with all their needs supplied. UNTIL ~ In their disobedience and independence, they forfeited the relationship God had planned for them with...

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Humility by Grace (pg.2)

“The mystery of grace teaches us that as we lose ourselves in the overwhelming greatness of redeeming love, humility becomes to us the consummation of everlasting blessedness and adoration.” Let us memorize and meditate on this statement by which Murray begins his...

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