Tag: encouraged
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What Does Everything Mean To You?
I saw this commercial the other day. “What does ‘everything’ mean to you?”, asked Samuel L. Jackson for Capital One. Now, for the record, I am NOT endorsing Capital One OR Samuel L. Jackson. But the commercial caught my ear. I think sometimes we forget what the word “everything” really means. We are told to…
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Breaking the Spirit of Poverty (Intro)
God doesn’t have a nickle to His name, but He’s rich. He doesn’t own a Lexus or a Lamborghini, but He always rides in style. He wears no fancy Rolex, but He’s never late. He has never known poverty, and He doesn’t want you or I being chained to the spirit of poverty either. He is rich. He’s…
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Hey, Jude!
Ever hear of the rock and roll group called The Beatles? Of course you have! As a teenager, and like millions of other teens, I listened to them every chance I could. And, like it or not, their music spoke directly to the heart of their generation, the culture of the day. From simple songs…
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Cause and Effect
I woke up this morning with an old song on my mind; an old Gaither song called, “Because He Lives”. “Because He lives, I can face tomorrow”, is the beginning of the chorus. As I kept thinking about those words, the phrase, “cause and effect” jumped into my mind, waving its arms and hollering loud…
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Musicians and Music
It’s been said that musicians are a strange breed of cat. I’ve been inclined to agree. But I’m not sure anymore. I believe everyone has a bit of peculiarity about them. God would call it uniqueness. However, there is something powerful about music. Maybe it’s the melody, words, rhythm, and harmony all working together that…
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Are You Teachable?
Know-it-alls come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, ages, and experiences. The world is full of them, in case you haven’t noticed. No matter what the subject, some people are experts on everything! Maybe you’ve never met a know-it-all. Good for you. But just wait, you probably will one of these days. Of course, everyone…
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Be Unique
“…anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun.” (2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT) “Belongs to Christ…” Anyone who receives, by faith, Jesus Christ as The Lord of their life becomes a new creation, a new “fabrication”, a “species of being which never before existed.”…
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Memories and Berdine’s
Memories and Berdines Remember when you were a kid? Remember how simple things were? And how about the old “Dime Stores”? When I was young there was a store called “Places”, and it was only three blocks from where I lived. I could’ve hung out there all day if my folks would’ve allowed it. Such…
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Four Anchors
Now when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors sensed that they were drawing near some land. And they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and when they had gone a little farther, they took soundings again and found…
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“Drop Kick Me Jesus…”
“Drop kick me Jesus…” A cute little song by Bobby Bare. God NEVER intended for His people to barely make it through this life and into the next, without a testimony of His power and victory evident in their life. “For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His…
Jan Grace 