When It Gets Tough

You would think – with all these major natural disasters, downward economic spirals across the globe, growing troubles in the Mideast – that people would get a clue…  While I don’t believe anyone who predicts a specific date & time for Christ’s return, all of these events (in general) have been predicted and recorded in God’s Word. Nobody wants to believe IN God.  Some folks want to believe He exists...

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Psalm 46

GOD IS our Refuge and Strength [mighty and impenetrable to temptation], a very present and well-proved help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change and though the mountains be shaken into the midst of the seas, Though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling and tumult. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, the holy...

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What Study Bible Do You Recommend?

I’ve actually posted this question on Twitter a couple of times and got just a few responses, and thought maybe I’d get more input here… About 20 years ago, I was given a beautiful red-leather bound Thompson-Chain KJV (King James Version) Bible as a gift.  It had my name embossed in gold on the front cover, and I spent many years reading through it, marking verses, making notes, and well, just  loving it. I could turn to...

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More Than Enough – Part 3

Sadly, because I did not believe God was Enough for me, I began my pursuit to find ENOUGH for my life. Enough money. Enough status. Enough friends. Enough worth. Enough stuff. Enough food. Enough. Enough. Enough! ENOUGH ALREADY! As I was washing dishes before lunch on Sunday – feeling raw from the aftermath of discovery and acknowledgment of my sin of discontentment and lack of faith in God – rather than bashing me over the...

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