September, 2015

• 2 September

  Our Hope: Looking for Strength

  

  “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”  Philippians 4:13 (NKJV) When we think of hope, we can easily see why and how it is connected to strength.  Just as little children, when we are in peril, we hope that someone with strength, such as a father or ...

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• 2 September

  And Your Desire Shall be for Your Husband

  

  This world has taken the order that God created and skewed it so that everything is out of whack. “ … the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from ...

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• 2 September

  Do You Suffer From Discontentment?

  

  Sunday evening, we came home from church to find our pantry had been ransacked. Spices lay in the floor. Boxes and pouches lay askew on their assigned shelves. Cans lay on their sides, overturned at some point during the process. And from the way Mitch, our shepherd mix, turned and ...

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• 2 September

  Turning Your Complaining Into Thankfulness

  

  We all have things that we dread doing, and we all have situations in our lives that seem to merit complaint. Recently, I started taking a Bible study by James MacDonald called, Lord Change my Attitude Before it’s Too Late. This week’s lesson is about turning our complaining into thankfulness. How ...

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• 1 September

  “All Things to All People”–Witnessing at a Personal Level

  

  Witnessing to anyone … in any form, can be a challenging task—especially for those persons who fear the task. Nevertheless, since God admonishes us all to go and preach the Gospel, witnessing is just a task that we have to get done. This doesn’t mean we should approach witnessing using ...

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• 1 September

  Redeeming Ant Man

  

  The most recent establishment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant Man, proved a couple of points.  First, Ant Man reinforced the fact that Marvel Studios can make a film about any of their “B” list characters and it can end up being a pretty decent film.  Marvel first proved this point with ...

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• 1 September

  Building A Solid Foundation In A Long Distance Relationship

  

  God, using His infinite wisdom and creativity, sometimes orchestrates a unique melding together of two lives.  There are stories of love at first sight, or stories where the courtship strung on and on while one person or the other sorted through a myriad of feelings, and there’s the typical dating ...

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• 1 September

  Work/Life Balance: Putting It into Perspective

  

  “Tired Little Woman In Search of Work/Life Balance: Seeking Calm in the Midst of a Storm.” That line could very well be the intro of a personal ad written from my weary little soul to “the balanced, carefree life” I long to live. As a mother of two with a ...

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• 1 September

  Keep Hope Alive!

  

  Have you lost your hope? A lack of hope leads to depression. An antidote for depression is hope, but not hope in just anything, the hope found in Jesus Christ. Hope is an essential and fundamental element in the Christian life. Jesus is the reason for our hope, not placing ...

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• 1 September

  What Is Evil Really? Who is the Solution?

  

  The world is full of evil and we have no way, it seems, to stop it or effectively deal with it. But what is evil? Evil is defined as “morally wrong or bad; wicked”, but what does that even mean, to be morally wrong? To be morally wrong is to ...

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