Tag: Relying on God
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The Right Kind of Righteousness: Overcoming Poverty
The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern. – Proverbs 29:7 (NIV) Poverty is certainly a growing issue of debate and concern today. Unemployment rates, foreclosure listings and protests have been media regulars for the last few years. A sour economy has soured our attitude toward the rich,…
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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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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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Pressing On – Part 1: Turning the Page
I was reminded recently that we can get distracted from pressing on in our walk with God. Things close in, demands seem overwhelming, responsibilities push for our attention and we can let our time with God dwindle away. But pressing on in our life with God is what makes us fit for the demands and…
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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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Remembering September 11th and What Followed: A Moment of Honor and Nobility
Something I post every September 11th. Pray for peace. “But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor…
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The Shepherd and the Sheep: Restore My Soul
My family and I will be at Family Camp this weekend, so I am reposting for this week. Next week, I will be posting something I wrote for 9/11 last year. Please have a safe and sober Labor Day weekend. Oh Lord you call my name Like a shepherd in a field. You use your…
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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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Read the Directions: Do Not Over Inflate
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but…
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Read the Directions: This is Not a Step
My steps have held to your paths; my feet have not stumbled. – Psalm 17:5 Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways. – Proverbs 4:26 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to…
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