Posted in worship on May 9th, 2013
We don’t want to believe it because it doesn’t make us look good in God’s sight.
But we’ve all done the trade-in thing with God at one time or another.
Hopefully, it was a momentary lapse into selfishness that was quickly followed by repentance and a return to faithfulness.
I was reminded of our vulnerability for distraction/destruction while […]
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Posted in worship on Feb 4th, 2013
Hate it when that happens….
Hit the wrong button and irreversibly deleted the Morning Devotion I had been working on for today.
Phooey!
Yes, I know it was later than normal. So many things to get done today and I didn’t have the authority over the sequence of things that I wanted.
Oh well….
Here’s the wrap-up […]
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Posted in worship on Dec 31st, 2012
God has been so good to us during the past year, even if our jobs, our associates and our bodies have stressed us more than they’ve blessed us.
We know we’ve been treated better than we deserve. If God hadn’t been merciful, we’d have been destroyed long ago because that’s what our sins deserve.
The fact […]
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Posted in worship on Nov 9th, 2012
It’s not a good idea to attend a relative’s wedding dressed as if you had just finished cleaning a dirty, steaming garage.
Your appearance and smell would not only be a big distraction to people, but also would be highly offensive to the ones being married.
It’s a matter of respect, isn’t it?
For the event to […]
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Posted in worship on Jul 27th, 2012
King Jehoshaphat was generally a good leader for Israel’s Southern Kingdom during the days before the Babylonian exile.
In fact, one of the most intriguing, inspiring and instructional accounts in the Old Testament is recorded in 2 Chronicles 20 and involves Jehoshaphat’s obedience to God regarding worship as warfare.
A coalition of Moabites, Ammonites and Meunites decided […]
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