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Kindness
“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” Ephesians 4:32 The first year that we were living in D...
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Forgiveness
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 Forgiveness is a to...
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Free
The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. Psalm 121:5 If we are able to own our need of help and ask for the limitless, un...
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Praying
“For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.” Romans 8:26 Do you ev...
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Don't You Care About Us?
And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. Mark 4:39 Do you ever hav...
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Pride
“Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, ...
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Accused of Being a Christian
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.” Galatians 5:22-23 One of the...
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Getting the Credit
“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He w...
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Peace
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid...
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Just Fun
“Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in...
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Help Without...
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 121:1-2 Psalm 121 invit...
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Honesty
“Then, you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32 The truth is that Jesus is God’s son, and He has come so that we have et...
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What Are You So Worried About?
Therefore I tell you, do you not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will put on…but s...
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The God Who Seeks to Save
Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? And ...
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Forgiveness and Grace
“If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.” Psalm 130:3-4 When I w...
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When People are Big and God is Small
Am I now trying to win the approval of man or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I am still trying to please men I cannot be a servant of Chris...
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Boyfriends
“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resent...
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Entangled
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles...
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Vine and Branches
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he p...
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Wow, That Felt Good to Get Off My Chest!
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Psalm 32:1 Sometimes when we finally confess something that we’ve held in...
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Friendship
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his fri...
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Ask God
“Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened unto you.” Matthew 7:7 What an amazing promise this is! God...
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Part of the Family
“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! F...
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The Main Thing
“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is...
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Asking for Help
He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. Psalm 121:3-4 In...
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Let Us Pray
“Pray without stopping.” 1 Thessalonians 5:17 What do you think about prayer? Is it something you look forward to? Is it something you dread? Is i...
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Never Fails
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasur...
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Disaster
“He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too st...
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The Ultimate Clique
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Matt. 27:46 Though I am in my forties now, it takes no effort to remember clearly how challenging it was t...
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Needing Help
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 121:1-2 Jeannette Walls ...