Category: Devotions

• Gardening Tips: Fallow Ground

  For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard, and with your olive…

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  October 9, 2011

  American Society and Culture, Devotions, Spiritual Transformation

  blessing, Community, Devotions, gardening, Holiness, Relying on God, Rest, Restoration, Sabbath, Spiritual discipline, Spiritual Growth

• Gardening Tips: Count Your Blessings Together

  Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in his ways. You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table. Thus is the man blessed who fears the…

  cdyeagerwrites

  September 25, 2011

  American Society and Culture, Devotions, Spiritual Transformation

  blessing, Community, Devotions, Family, fatherhood, fellowship, gardening, Provision, Relying on God, Thanksgiving

• Gardening Tips: It’s About the Harvest

  They sowed fields and planted vineyards that yielded a fruitful harvest; he blessed them, and their numbers greatly increased, and he did not let their herds diminish. – Psalms 107:37-38 (NIV) Sowing seeds is always about the harvest.  There is no purpose to seeding the ploughed ground if we do not expect or work toward…

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  September 18, 2011

  American Society and Culture, Devotions, Spiritual Transformation

  blessing, Christianity, Devotions, gardening, Harvest, Spiritual discipline, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality and the natural world

• Gardening Tips: Tilling The Soil

  Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. – Matthew 13:5-6 There is not much that I have eaten in this world the matches…

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  August 19, 2011

  Devotions, Spiritual Transformation

  Christianity, Evangelism, Faith, Love, mercy, presence, Spiritual discipline, Spirituality and the natural world

• Gardening Tips: Follow the Sun

  Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and…

  cdyeagerwrites

  August 14, 2011

  American Society and Culture, Devotions, Spiritual Transformation

  blessing, Christianity, gardening, Meeting God, Patience, presence, Spiritual discipline, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality and the natural world

• Read the Directions: Do Not Feed the Bears

  “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” – Matthew 26:41 In the movie My Little Chickadee (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032828/ ), Mae West’s character, Flower Belle Lee, says, “I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”  While humorous, this is also an accurate commentary…

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  August 6, 2011

  American Society and Culture, Devotions, Spiritual Transformation

  Bears, Christianity, Devotions, Relying on God, Sin, Spiritual discipline, Spiritual Growth, Temptation