Tag: gardening

• Gardening Tips: No Need for Seed

  Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.  Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.  And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in…

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  October 17, 2011

  American Society and Culture, Devotions, Spiritual Transformation

  blessing, Christianity, gardening, Generosity, mercy, Provision, Relying on God, Seeds, Spiritual discipline, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality and the natural world

• 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

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  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…

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  September 25, 2011

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  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

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

• Gardening Tips: In Increasing Measure

  For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective…

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  August 29, 2011

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• 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…

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  August 14, 2011

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• The Discipline of Presence: Forgiveness

  Matthew 6:9-15 (NIV) “This, then, is how you should pray: “‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,…

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  March 10, 2011

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  Christianity, Faith, forgiveness, gardening, Holiness, humility, Love, mercy, presence, Relying on God, Spiritual discipline, Spiritual Growth