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Where to run when life grows hard – a loaded question? Maybe. Some run to the bottle, others to food. A few of us run to blame or hide behind a wall of fear. Others of us fall into a pit of dark, quiet emptiness, a place void of hope and, seemingly, help. (<—…
God, are you real? Are you a believer in Jesus Christ? I became one in my 20’s. They say the statistics dive low for folks becoming Christians once they hit their adult years. (At least I recollect something of the sort.) That memo must have flown straight out the window in my case. I hope…
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Welcome to WORD17! Our memory verse this month is Matthew 7:7. There are three verbs. We talked about that a couple of Mondays ago here. All are separate, or are they? Digging into BlueLetterBible.org, we find a daisy-chain connection between all three verbs and our faith. Here’s what the Matthew Henry Commentary on BlueLetterBible.org offers:“Ask; represent your wants and…
“Ask and it will be given you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened for you. Matt. 7:7 WEB In this month’s verse, there are three verbs. Did you notice? All are composed and overflowing with action when we put spiritual muscle behind them and cause them to make their move….
“I love you more than you’ll ever know.” Dad offered those words to me in late 2015. He died shortly after. We buried him, then a day or two later, my immediate family prepared to journey back to our home 800 miles away. But before we left, I made one last visit to the grave. I took…
That bowl full of chocolates and denying ourselves sometimes don’t go together, do they? Or, how about the inner thrust to simply do things our way versus waiting on God? Or maybe it’s simply fear in the driver’s seat. Stepping out in faith sounds fabulous, but rejection or failure loom larger. This week on WORD17…
A Life Restored by Lanette Haskins They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. Rev. 12:11a WEB We all have a story to tell — the good, the bad, the ugly and sometimes the really ugly. The good things are easy to share, it’s the other…