Lord, You are wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance! Is 28:29 Just imagine being a serious student at a prestigious ivy league-type college. You are majoring in chemistry with access to the school and world’s most renown chemistry professor 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and for as long as you are […]

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“Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,” II Corinthians 5:18 NKJV There s a familiar Biblical story in chapter 2 of Luke where Joseph and Mary, the parents of young Jesus, had to return to Jerusalem to collect Him […]

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God’s ways are not our ways.  His ideas are heaven higher than ours! Is 55:8-9 Did you know that if you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet and is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner?  […]

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“He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Phil 1:6) Recently, I received a copy of the following article while in a one-room Amish school house in Pennsylvania.  The author is unknown but the wholesome wisdom in the hand-out is obvious. I’ve added […]

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Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.  Ecclesiastes 7:8 What does finishing strong mean to you?  Usually, in the context of finishing strong, one may visualize a runner bursting through a finish line with speed and power to spare. […]

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For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 A life sentence is usually associated with a prison term levied against some deserving criminal. In today’s Message of Hope, we’d like to consider two other kinds of “Life Sentences.” In John […]

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But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Act 1:8 There’s an old Chinese proverb that says, “When we drink water to quench our thirst, tribute should […]

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“But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul” (Deuteronomy 4:29). Inspiration and real hope come to me when I think of the Biblical character David and how God referenced him as a man after His own […]

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When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”  Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matt 19:25-26 Some think the old Yankee phrase, “You can’t get theah from heah” (you can’t get there from here) originated […]

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For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?  Mark 8:36 Some time ago, I listened to an audio from a series called “Advanced Sales Techniques.” One of the principle points the sales presenter made triggered a lasting impression that I would like to share with you. Here’s […]

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