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Honor Your Parents - 5th Commandment
“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.” Exodus 20:12 This command is not typica...
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Keep the Sabbath Holy - 4th Commandment
“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. O...
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Do No Misuse God's Name - 3rd Commandment
“You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.” Exodus 20:7 When you hear so...
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No Idols - 2nd Commandment
“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow do...
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No Other Gods - 1st Commandment
“You shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3 Everybody worships something, even if they say they don’t. People can worship lots of things,...
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The Ten Commandments
“And God spoke all these words.” Exodus 20:1a The 10 Commandments are God’s law. Christ came to fulfill this law because sinners (us) can never fulf...
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Modest is Hottest
“Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self control.” 1 Timothy 2:9 Typically when I talk to gir...
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Grace
“I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service, though formerly I was a b...
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The Joy of Humility
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he...
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Saved
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not ...
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Knows More Than My Name
I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me. John 10:14 Shortly after Kendall and I were married, her dad took me hunting at a Hunting ...
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Plug In
I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. Phil. 4:13 Make a list of all the hard things going on in your life right now. Do you beli...
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Beautiful, Attractive, Valuable
Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created ...
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Growing Out
“You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called ...
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Forgiveness
“So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’ He refused and went and put him in prison until ...
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Love and Grace Towards Others
“We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he h...
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Never Give Up
“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap a harvest, if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9 There was a young writer in...
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Slow Down, Stop, and Soak It Up
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Psalm 19:1 For the past 6 years I’ve been granted the opportunity t...
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It's More Than Listening
Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is li...
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Hard Times
“All things work together for good to those who love God.” Romans 8:28 Think about some of the best times in your life – you receive an award, you g...
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Don't be Surprised by your Doubt
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of ...
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Adoption
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we...
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Fasting
“I humbled my soul with fasting.” Psalm 35:13 I don’t know about you, but I used to think fasting was something only done during the Bible days. If...
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Content
“But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have fo...
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The Lie of the Fairytale
There is a ways that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. Proverbs 14:12 When you have three daughters you pretty much get to wat...
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Weakness
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9 This verse is one of my favorites...
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Fullfilling the Message
“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he a...
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Legacy
“Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the numbe...
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Dreaming Small
Aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed. 1 Thess. 4:11 Let’s talk about your dreams for ...
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Words are Magnetic
“Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.” Proverbs 16:24 My children love trivia. They recently told me ...