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PROVERBS 3:5-6 “TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AND HE WILL MAKE YOUR PATHS STRAIGHT.” Have you noticed yet that many of life’s problems are of our own making. When you “TRUST IN THE LORD” your path almost miraculously happens Read More

JOHN 14:19 “BECAUSE I LIVE, YOU WILL LIVE.” Jesus is alive to help us LIVE OUR BEST LIFE. Living means being responsive to the world around us, not just existing. That is, we can use our potential to help self and others to come closer to what we are meant to be. Jesus has set Read More

2 CORINTHIANS 5:20-1 “WE IMPLORE YOU ON CHRIST’S BEHALF: BE RECONCILED TO GOD. GOD MADE HIM WHO HAD NO SIN TO BE SIN FOR US, SO THAT IN HIM WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.” God is the embodiment of PERFECTION. We humans are anything but. So God devised a plan, through Christ, to Read More

COLOSSIANS 2:6-7 “SO THEN, JUST AS YOU RECEIVED CHRIST JESUS AS LORD, CONTINUE TO LIVE YOUR LIVES IN HIM, ROOTED AND BUILT UP IN HIM, STRENGTHENED IN THE FAITH AS YOU WERE TAUGHT, AND OVERFLOWING WITH THANKFULNESS.” This verse is a succinct recipe for “the Good Life.” Follow JESUS’ EXAMPLE, recognize him as your LORD, Read More

ISAIAH 40:30-1 “EVEN YOUTHS GROW TIRED AND WEARY, AND YOUNG MEN STUMBLE AND FALL; BUT THOSE WHO HOPE IN THE LORD WILL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH. THeY WILL SOAR ON WINGS LIKE EAGLES; THEY WILL RUN AND NOT GROW WEARY.” One attribute of a person of God is FAITHFULNESS. You can count on him to follow Read More

1 TIMOTHY 6:12 “FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH. TAKE HOLD OF ETERNAL LIFE TO WHICH YOU WERE CALLED WHEN YOU MADE A GOOD CONFESSION IN THE PRESENCE OF MANY WITNESSES.” To keep our faith is always a battle. Every discouragement, whether illness, loss of a friend, loss of a job is a set back. Read More

1 JOHN 3:17-8 “IF ANYONE HAS MATERIAL POSSESSIONS AND SEES A BROTHER OR SISTER IN NEED BUT HAS NO PITY ON THEM, HOW CAN THE LOVE OF GOD BE IN THAT PERSON? DEAR CHILDREN, LET US NOT LOVE WITH WORDS OR SPEECH BUT WITH ACTIONS AND TRUTH.” A hallmark of Godly love is COMPASSION. And Read More

PROVERS 1917 “WHOEVER IS KIND TO THE POOR LENDS TO THE LORD, AND HE WILL REWARD THEM FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.” COMPASSION is a hugh part of Christian Agape Love. Before Jesus coming, one way to recommend COMPASSION was to stress the REWARD that accrues to those who love. Jesus displayed a whole new Read More

JOHN 15:3 “GREATER LOVE HAS NO ONE THAN THIS: TO LAY DOWN ONE’S LIFE FOR ONE’S FRIENDS.” Do you have a friend you’d give up your life for? Fortunate if you do and blessed if you have the SACRIFICIAL LOVE such a deed requires. I’d like to think many of us would be willing to Read More

PROVERBS 4:23 “ABOVE ALL ELSE, GUARD YOUR HEART, FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO FLOWS FROM IT.” Essential advice for living. Regularly meditate on the motives for our actions. The HEART here is figuratively the seat of our motivation and EMOTIONS. Think about WHY we do what we do. There is always a selfish component in there Read More