Category: Encouragement
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Troubled Waters
Lots of life’s lessons happen when we least expect them. It all happened about 26 years ago, early one Sunday morning. As usual, I arrived at our church around 5:30 in the morning. I enjoyed having extra preparation time, time to pray and worship God, and time to relax a little before Sunday School classes…
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Seeds and Seasons
Every Seed Has Its Season… “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1 NLT) There is a season for everything God has established and wants to establish. Every living thing reproduces after its kind; every tree, plant, animal, bird and man, “whose seed is in itself” has the…
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Little Miss Tipsy
The other evening my wife and I had supper with some friends at their house. As we were finishing our meal, our friends’ son and daughter-in-law stopped by to drop off their dog for the weekend, while they went out of town. Little Miss Tipsy. Part dachshund and part something else, she sure was a…
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How May We Help You?
How May We Help You? You are a leader! A leader of men and women, boys and girls. A leader for God in His Kingdom on Earth, and in the future, Heaven. You have heard the call of God and have sensed His anointing and His direction. You are a leader! You’re passionate about what…
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Arise and Shine
Light always overcomes darkness. God has caused His light to shine in us, through us, so it is time for us to ARISE AND SHINE! We do not have to fear the darkness – it has to fear us! When light invades the darkness, one of two things must occur. The darkness will either FLEE…
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The God of More
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before…” Star Trek – The Original Series Though I wouldn’t consider myself a Trekkie, I really did like the…
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Rockabilly Music
Rockabilly music! In the early 50’s, a new style of music emerged. It was dubbed “Rockabilly Music.” Some of the main singer/songwriters were Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, and Bill Haley and the Comets. It was a fun type of music, with simple lyrics, toe-tapping rhythms, a new style of electric…
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Hands
Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them (Acts 19:11,12 NKJV) Ordinary hands. Unusual miracles. Not your ordinary, everyday, common, plain, typical type of miracle. “…so…
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Persuaded? Think about it!
Persuade – to move by argument, entreaty, or expostulation to a belief, position, or course of action; to plead with : urge Think about it. Have you ever had anyone try to persuade you to believe like them, take sides with them, agree to stand with them? You had to think about it, didn’t you?…
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The Promise and the Oath
Promise – a declaration that one will do or refrain from doing something specified. Oath – from a Greek word meaning “a fence, a limit”. Every day millions of promises are made, given, vowed, pledged, throughout the world. And every day a lot of those same promises are broken. Have you ever had someone break…
Jan Grace 