Today, I Meet with #God
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Today, I meet with God, in faith, In deep and copious blessings I bathe, I live in truth in Jesus’ death. Today, my needs the Lord provides, His tender mercy to justice adds, And changes all my #attitudes. Today, the future holds no fear, From here eternity’s not far, For God-who-Is draws me near.
Be Whom You Ought, Do What You Must
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At such a time as this has God placed you where you are, to act on behalf of his people. Many will scoff and scorn you. Silence is not an option. Speak surely and firmly, with love, the Word of God on your lips, arising from your heart full of goodness. Jeremiah’s group has room […]
Make #glory Shine
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This #prayer-poem appeals to God for help, that he be glorified.
The more dangerous #sin
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Let us not be passive in the fight against sin.
#God will break through your blindness
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If you let him, God will turn your life upside-down. Or rather, right-side up. He will work a great thing in you. He will not leave you where you are, but will sweep away the trash of selfishness and the litter of small concerns to fill you with a consuming love for him. God will […]
#Daily_Bible_Devotional #focus_question #goodness_of_God #Q #transformation
A World of Peoples
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Three stanzas describe a little circle that excludes so many.
So Much Newness !
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This poem expresses a holy impatience to grow in the Lord.
Merry #Christmas to you! And a poem.
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A revived poem to wish you and yours a happy holiday!
Baptism in Matthew’s Great Commission
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The Great Commission has been quoted, preached on, written about, and dissected frequently, as one of the texts that has received some of the most attention in biblical studies. Deservedly so. In recent days, I wrote a series of meditations on Matthew 28.18-20. And today a neighbor and I studied the same passage in his […]
The powerful act of #writing
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Last week, I started jotting down ideas for 2018 in my green-colored pen. Within a short time, twelve ideas, large and small, appeared. From those, new pages were needed to fill out some of the more appealing or practical ideas. (One of them is to finish some outstanding projects.) Amazingly, some of those ideas, after […]
How ?
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Did you ever wonder how a person could reach the point he did? Or yourself?
#poetry #Poetry #sin #temptation #vice
#honesty
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God’s people are honest. It’s who they are.
Who Prays for Me ?
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This three-stanza poem recognizes that many intercede for the writer who are unknown to him.
#poetry #Uplift #intercession #Poetry #prayer
The #irony of reading Scripture and missing the point
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Not a few people miss the point of the #Bible today, even though they read it.
Seven Spirits
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A poem in praise of God’s #Holy_Spirit.
#Elisha Cried
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This quatrain ponders Elisha’s reaction to Elijah’s parting.
By Sin or Silence
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Let the church shine!
The beginning point of all #Christian_effort
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2 Peter 1.3: Start here, or crash and burn.