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Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it. What will it benefit a man if he gains the…
One person gives freely, yet gains more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor. Proverbs 11:24 HCSB If you know me or you have read many of my blogs, you know I am a simple person. I don’t use a lot of big or fancy words. While reading a commentary on a particular…
Therefore, you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the…
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. 1 John 5:21 NKJV A dear friend sends out a Bible verse to some of her friends, me included, each morning. She sent this verse, but it was worded “Dear Children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts.” Many people believe you…
But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. James 1:22 HCSB Many people probably went to church yesterday and heard good sermons. You might have even shaken hands with the preacher and complimented him on it. Many of us believe God blesses our church attendance and our taking time out…
Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which he swore to your fathers. And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of…
Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren, especially concerning the day you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the…
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light,…
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I told you in the past, that those who practice such things will not…
Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey-either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness? Romans 6:16 HCSB A few weeks ago, I was speaking to my niece, who is about to graduate from college. I honestly…