Category Archives: Lessons from Scripture

Life-threatening Devotion for My Children

How will my life-threatening devotion to God effect my children? How can I show life-threatening devotion to God in my role as their parent?
Your children will know if you have life-threatening devotion to God because they will see how it benefits their lives. Continue reading

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Life-threatening Devotion in Marriage

Life-threatening devotion to God will effect our marriages. The question should never be “Do I love my spouse enough?” It should always be “Do I love God enough to love my spouse with His love?”
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Life-threatening Devotion

Life-threatening devotion is having a love for God that is stronger than any other love we have. It’s a devotion to our God and Father that is worth more than our own lives, and is worth any sacrifice to maintain that relationship.
But I realized it’s not just our physical life that we should threaten with our devotion, but our selfishness, our comfort, and our attitudes. Continue reading

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Honor the King

So I will honor my kings. First my King of the kingdom not of this world, because He is worthy. Then the president, my king in this world, not because he is worthy, but because it is an honor to my Great King, and He is worthy. Continue reading

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Merry Christmas, Until He Returns!

The death and resurrection of Jesus is the reason for His birth.
So, the real reason we celebrate Christmas is sin. Our sin is the need. God’s Son is the answer.
When we celebrate Christ’s birth, we recognize His death and resurrection, and also His return! Continue reading

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Christmas Reminders

A pregnant young lady and her fiancé travel to his family’s hometown… The story ends with a sudden trip to another country.
The whole point of the Christmas season is to emphasize that Jesus was Emmanuel, God With Us Continue reading

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Still Thankful

Are you still giving thanks? Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day. It’s a national holiday that was recommended by George Washington in 1789, instituted by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, and made into law by Congress in 1941. The story that the … Continue reading

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Family Beginnings

“Our ethnicity ties us to families in other nations and gives us a canvas on which to paint the pictures of our lives, but the background that provides context to our pictures is the United States.” Continue reading

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Grace for Grace

And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. John 1:16-17 What does it mean to receive grace? How do we receive … Continue reading

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Living Stones

Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to … Continue reading

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