It’s been said that after a husband and wife have been married for a long time, they start to look like each other. Maybe it’s especially so, if they’re best friends, as it’s also been said that best friends’ faces start to look alike!… Continue Reading “Transformed or Conformed?”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Adonai, Behavior, Conform, Control, Decision, GOD of Gods, God's Authority, Identified With, Look Like, LORD, Master, Mind, Outward Form, Outward Results, Ruler, Sovereign, Spirit of God, Thoughts, Transformed, Words, Yahweh
I love this sweatshirt of my daughter’s! It’s amazing how many compliments she’s received when wearing it! You can see people read it, then re-read it! Their heads kind of tilt to the side, like a dog, when he’s trying to figure out what’s… Continue Reading “Service with Kindness”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Actions, Change our Minds, Cruelty, Despise, Disobedience, Disrespect, Give Credit Where Credit was Due, God's Character, God's Leading, God's Way, Harsh Tones, Hate, Heart, Jesus Christ, Kindness, Met Physical Needs, Mind, Obedience, Our Way, Patience, Purpose, Purposeful, Repentance, Respect, Restraint, Selfishness, Service, Spirit of God, Spirit-Produced, Useful, Walk in His Ways, Words
Do you remember the post-deer-accident picture of my little Geo Prizm, shown in the “Wonder–An Additional Offering” post? Well, following that collision, my little car was, thankfully, repaired! One rainy Good Friday, several years later, I was driving that same car home, on my… Continue Reading “Collision Course”
Category: LifeTags: Change, Christ, Collision, Different Direction, Focus, Force, Healing, Helper, Holy Spirit, Impulse, Internally Damaged, Keep Moving, Kingdom of God, Mean, Mind, Momentum, Movement, Negative, No Consideration, Offenses, Opposing, Protected from Destruction, Savior, Sinful Nature, Slow Down, Sound, Stop, Strength, Time, Truths, Walk in the Spirit, Word of God
You’ve been hurt…again. Your emotions have taken a beating, and you’re feeling a bit like a punching bag. The last thing you want to think about or do is forgive! Anger? Check! Indignation? Check! Bitterness? Getting there. And then, you read these verses… “For… Continue Reading “Forgive? Why Should I?!?”
Category: LifeTags: Anger, Apologizing, Beneficial to the Kingdom of God, Bitterness, Christ's Presence, Forgive Other People, Forgiveness, Free Gift, Getting the Better of Us, God Has Forgiven You, Hurt, Indignation, Jesus, Kindness, Let Go, Love, Mind, No Strings Attached, Not Demanding the Debt, Offenses, Paid the Price for Our Sins, Satan, Sympathy
I couldn’t hold it in. I was overflowing inside from celebration, pride, excitement, praise…every positive emotion you can imagine! I felt like my heart was going to explode; so, I shared our good news with a group of believers: our daughter had accepted Jesus… Continue Reading “How Do We Respond to Good News?”
Category: LifeTags: Abundance of Honor, Accept, Accept as Truth, Accepted Jesus as Savior, Angel of the LORD, Angry, Athlete, Believers, Blessings of God, Brag about God, Brag about God's Abilities, Brag about God's Achievements, Brag Profusely, Bright Eyes, Celebrating, Change, Change in Someone's Heart, Character, Child of God, Close Ourselves Off, Cold Water, Construct, Convince, Crave More, Craves, Craving, Criticism, Deception, Deep in Someone's Heart, Desires, Desperate Need, Develop One's View about God, Disappointed, Ears, Emotions, Encourage, Encourage One Another, Excited, Excitement, Exerting, Eyes, Faint, Fear, Fulfill Physical Needs, Fulfilling, Give Honor, God was Present, God Working in One's Life, God Working through Them, God's Character, God's Hand of Provision, God's Kingdom, Good News, Hear, Hears, Heart, Idea, Impact, Impacts Others, Influence, Influential, Inspire, Inspired, Interactions, Jealousy, Jesus, Joy, Judge, Judges, Judgment, Lack of Reply, Light, Lives, Look, Luminary, Manoah, Messenger, Mind, Opportunity, Overwhelmed, Physical Body, Pleasant to Someone's Ears, Positive Affect, Positive Emotion, Positively Affect People, Power of God's Spirit, Praise, Pride, Proof, Refreshing, Reply, Report, Respond, Response, Root, Satisfaction, Seep in, Sets a Light Off in a Person's Mind, Share Good News, Sharing, Show, Show Christ, Show Jesus, Silence, Someone Believes, Someone Believes is True, Soul, Source of Good News, Spiritual, Teaching, Testimony, Thought, True, Trustworthy, Truth of God's Word, Wanting, Watch a Person of Influence, Weary Soul, Whole Person, Will, Wonderful, Wrestling Inside
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