A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold. Proverbs 22:1 (NIV) If there’s one thing I hate, it’s when someone says something about me that isn’t true – especially when it paints a less than favorable picture of my character. This happened to me recently, and it sure made me
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For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this? Esther 4:14 (NIV) Esther was an amazing woman. She began her life as a political
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Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed. Psalm 57:1 (NIV) The other day I went out the back door and noticed that a Mocking Bird was unusually nearby. As I ventured further out in the backyard,
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Isaiah 44:24 (NIV)“This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself,” Terence Cunningham has a big goal. He wants to raise enough money to put an indestructible copy of the Bible on the moon. You ask why? So that it can
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Psalm 57:1 (NIV) Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed. The other day I went out the back door and noticed immediately that a Mocking Bird was unusually close. As I ventured further out in the
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Psalm 61:4 (NIV) I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of your wings. One of the most insecure times in my life was when I was out of work for over a year. This was also a time that I became close to God. In a strange way it was the worst and
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Psalm 36:7(NIV) How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. Yesterday as I left the office on my way to lunch I saw this young straggly looking guy on the sidewalk with a confused look on his face, I asked if he needed help. Then he asked me if I could
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Psalm 46:1-3 (NIV) God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. It’s one of the most significant questions keeping many people from trusting in
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Philippians 1:6 (NIV) being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. I have a couple of projects around the house that I need to finish. Well now that I think about it I have a lot of unfinished projects. There’s a door that
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