Archive for December 2020
Perhaps we all should be committed
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vm82x-f4e9c3 Words such as commitment, loyalty and accountability can cause some of us to turn and run. Maybe we fear failure and choose not to make a promise we might not be able to keep. When we look at the picture of God presented to us in the bible, we see someone who honors his…
Read MoreS80P13 – Growth spurts: peace
2 Pet. 1:2-4 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us…
Read MoreS80P12 – Growth spurts: discernment
Heb. 5:12-14 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is…
Read MoreS80P11 – Growth spurts: forgiveness
Eph. 4:31-32 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. Early in my walk with Christ, I worked with a woman who had been raised in a house of…
Read MoreS80P10 – Growth spurts: good works
Jam. 2:14-17 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them…
Read MoreS80P9 – Growth spurts: hope
Rom. 5:1-5 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation…
Read MoreS80P8 – Growth spurts: courage
Phil. 1:27-28 Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel, and not in any way terrified by…
Read MoreS80P7 – Growth spurts: patience
Psa. 27:12-14 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out violence. I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living. Wait on the Lord; be of…
Read MoreAll the way the Savior leads me
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7d3fc-f43842 Life is full of winding roads, twists and turns, roadblocks and detours. Yet, even though there may be obstacles before us, we can manage the way safely and securely. We only need let the Savior lead us. Let us take a moment to look over our journey and make sure that we have not…
Read MoreS80P6 – Growth spurts: wisdom
Jam. 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. I have known many people who have worked in nursing, and I tend to ask them the same questions. I ask them things like the reason they…
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