What kind of patterns does your family have? You may have received traditions from your parents, which they received from their parents, but it is our choice whether we continue the patterns or set new ones. Some patterns are innocuous. On Christmas Day in my family growing up we would…
Read moreToday during the Adult Sunday School class, we read the following from Real Encouragement for Real Life by Jeff Schreve: “The sooner you believe and receive God’s great love for you, the better you will be. What happens to a person who truly believes and receives God’s great love? That…
Read more“Blessed be the Lord! For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy. The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.” ~ Psalm 28:6-7 (ESV) 2017 did…
Read moreThere is not a day that passes that satan does not whisper in our ear, “It is just too hard, someone has wronged you, just give up and be happy, carefree and free from this always having to please God.” Be very careful to recognize the voice of satan and…
Read moreFor you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven…
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