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Daily Devotional: October 2nd, 2020
What Have You Prayed For Today? And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God. – Philippians 1:9-11 We all tend to pray for something in our lives. Healing, strength, and countless other things, but…
Daily Devotional: October 1st, 2020
Deeply Rooted; Strongly Built 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. – Colossians 2:6-7 Farmers have a lot to consider when it comes to the soil that they plant their crops in. Soil fertility, water, nutrients in the soil, crop rotation, crop tillage, sun, etc. All of these factors come into play when a farmer sets…
Daily Devotional: September 30th, 2020
Where Do You Speak From? If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. – Romans 10:9-10 There’s many places you can speak from, most of us struggle with the battle between speaking from our mind and speaking what’s on our hearts. We…
Daily Devotional: September 29th, 2020
Living your Discipleship Markans; Spiritual Gifts For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then…
Daily Devotional: September 28th, 2020
I Hate Mondays Garfield had it right, I hate Mondays, in matter of fact I’m not the only one who gets the “Monday Blues” according to inc. Why is Monday such a drag on us both physically and emotionally at times? There’s a few scientific reasons for it. “Misery Loves Company” we are social creatures that tend to adapt to the behaviors of the people surrounding us, if your coworkers, spouse, or friends don’t like Mondays then you’re more predisposed…
Daily Devotional: September 27th, 2020
Written by OS Hillman for Today God is First A Shoe Salesman Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.’ – Matthew 19:26 Dwight L. Moody was a poorly educated, unordained, shoe salesman who felt God’s call to preach the gospel. Early one morning he and some friends gathered in a hay field for a season of prayer, confession, and consecration. His friend Henry Varley said, “The world has yet…
Daily Devotional: September 25th, 2020
Preaching Like a Disciple He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. – Mark 16:15 When we think of preaching the gospel to all of the world we see tend to think of a preacher standing in front of a crowd preaching the word to their congregation. What we tend to forget is the subtle suggestion that preaching the gospel doesn’t necessarily require us to stand in front of a crowd, nor…
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When Jesus Speaks: Hearing & Recognizing The VOICe of Jesus I don’t know about you but right now through all social media streams, news on the tv, and in a world that is changing not only day by day but sometimes hour by hour, I am finding it hard to focus on Jesus’ voice among so many voices all clamoring for my attention. It was then I started looking at what was happening to the disciples after Easter as they…
Congregational Care Update
Surround one another with love and support My hope is to send a different kind of post each day focusing on a different part of our life together as a community of faith. Today’s post is focused on our care of each other. Many of us are starting to feel anxiety caused by the separation of not meeting together it is even affecting introverts like me 🙂 When we start to feel anxious, let’s follow Paul’s advice to stop and…
Daily Devotional: March 12th, 2020
Teaching Our Youth Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Deuteronomy 6:7 Did you Know? Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher who wrote a treatise on vibrating bodies at nine years old; his first proof, on a wall with a piece of coal, at 11 years old; and a theorem by 16 years…
Daily Devotional: March 11th, 2020
Our Loving Friend Originally Posted on InTouch Ministries, View Original Post Here You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from…
Daily Devotional: March 10th, 2020
Where is YOur Beacon? Did You Know? In 1959 a British Petroleum survey crew, while looking for oil in the North African desert of Libya, spotted the wreckage of a B-24 bomber. Upon investigation, it proved to be the remains of the “Lady Be Good,” a WWII bomber that had returned from a mission in Italy but had never reached the airbase. Mysteriously, the plane was empty. What caused the “Lady Be Good” to miss her base, landing more than…