"Come on," she pleaded. "Just stick it in there ( Read more... )

I accepted a challenge from a friend a couple of weeks ago, to read the whole Bible through in 90 days - so as of this morning I am a sixth of the way through the Bible.

I am reading from The Living Bible, and it is brilliant to see things flow. I have read the Bible many times, but reading the Pentateuch this fast has just brought alive how Gods ( Read more... )

When the truth cannot be handled ( Read more... )

Good evening all ( Read more... )

hi, i'm christina + i wrote some poems 4 jesus that i wanted 2 share ( Read more... )

Today's Scripture:

Philippians 1:1-11

"So this is my prayer: that your love will flourish and that you will not only love much but well. Learn to love appropriately. You need to use your head and test your feelings so that your love is sincere and intelligent, not sentimental gush. Live a lover's life, circumspect and exemplary, a life Jesus will ( Read more... )

Yesterday, God brought back to mind something that I had done in a bible study several months back. I can pinpoint my recent growth back to this very lesson- it had that much impact on me. It was an exercise in priority.
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Today I came upon a quote by George Eliot that expresses the kind of friend I want to be and to have:

"O the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep ( Read more... )

why do people believe in god? can anybody give me any proof of god? how do we know that he isn't just made up and the people that made him laughed at anybody that believed the stupid stuff... how does anybody know that the bible isn't just a bunch of people, or one person, that made up a story and it is all fiction... why should anybody believe ( Read more... )

PREPARING THE WAY

Read: Luke 3:1-20

Finally they said, "Who are you? . . . "John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, "I am the voice of one calling in the desert, 'Make straight the way for the Lord." John 1:22-23 NIV (Isaiah 40:3)
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John the Baptist was the last prophet preceding the coming of Messiah. He knew from the time he was a child ( Read more... )