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  • The Best Friend

    It’s an honor I cherish, and one I seekto live up to—but I don’t always do it. It’s the privilege of hearingmy wife say, “You’re my best friend,” which she does often. As much asI love her, though, I …

  • Buy without Money

    A story was told of a wealthy man whofelt his son needed to learn gratefulness. So he sent him to stay witha poor farmer’s family. After one month, the son returned. The fatherasked, “Now don’t you ap…

  • 2 hour delays are so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Better than snow days, because you have to make those up... Verse of the day:1 John 4:9:This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world…

  • The Kindness of Strangers

    While I was taking a flight to Surabaya,Indonesia, for a Bible conference, the flight attendants brought mealservice. I had just eaten in the Singapore airport, so I declined,asking only for a soft dr…

  • God is Good

    The phrase “God is good, all the time;all the time, God is good” is repeated by many Christians almost like amantra. I often wonder if they really believe it or even think aboutwhat they’re saying. I …

  • Weddings....

    Weddings are fun, a time of love, yet sadness as one loses someone from their family, and yet another gains a member. We have a wedding in my family tomorrow, Jackie Giuliano is marrying 2nd Lieutenant Aaron Veydt, U…

  • Please Pray for me. I am having a extremely hard time at school. Verse of the Day:1 John 4:11-12:Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we lov…

  • Courage: Live it

    Courage is one thing you need if youwant to get God’s work done. That’s what I said when I spoke in achurch service in Jamaica. I told the people that according to 2Timothy 1:7, God did not give us a …

  • Join the Choir

    I’ll never forget the first time I sawthe Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir in concert. Nearly 200 people who hadbeen redeemed out of the bowels of Brooklyn—former crack addicts andprostitutes included—sang t…

  • It's A Fact

    In doing research for his epic story Roots, Alex Haley embarked on the freighter African Star,sailing from Monrovia, Liberia, to Jacksonville, Florida. He did so tobetter understand the travails of his …

  • Growing through Grief

    A woman who lost her husband of 40 yearsto a sudden heart attack said that the resulting grief had caused herto value love more. When she heard couples arguing, she sometimes spoketo them, saying, “Yo…

  • The true meaning of Valentine

    John 3:16 For God so loVed the world, That He gAve His onLy …

  • Fresh

    What do you think of when you hear theword fresh? When the weather is nice, my husband and I enjoy going tothe farmers market so we can buy produce that was picked that verymorning. To me, fresh means just-harveste…

  • Dwell with Understanding

    Snow is pretty cool when you get off of school...Read this devotional that I read this morning.... My wife, Marlene, and I have beenmarried for some 30 years, and have learned to appreciate each otherand enjoy each…

  • Snow Days are so fun!!!!!!!

  • The Wounds of a Friend

    Not everyone appreciates correction, butDavid did. He felt indebted to those who corrected him and realized howmuch he owed them. “Let the righteous strike me; it shall be akindness. Let him rebuke me; it shall…

  • Be in God's light..... SHINE for Him!!!!!!!

  • What a Wonderful Maker we have..... You spread out the skies over empty space Said "let there be light" Into a dark and formless world Your light was born You spread out Your arms over empty hearts Said "let the…

  • Tomorrow, I get to help Cady w/ the elementary kids in Sunday School!!!!! I've never done that before, and she said that it is alot of fun!!!! We are teaching them about Salt and Light. So, I think that it's gonna be…

  • Grace

    Aren't you glad for the gift of Grace? Aren't you glad that you don't have to go to the place of eternal destruction and pain? I sure am.... How about you?There is no guilt hereThere is no shameNo pointing fi…

  • Calling Myself

    As I was moving my laptop, cell phone,and assorted books and papers from one room to another, the “regular”phone rang. I hurriedly set down my stuff and rushed to answer the callbefore the answering machine kic…

  • In Christ Alone

    In Christ alone my hope is found He is my light, my strength, my song This Cornerstone, this solid ground Firm through the fiercest drought and storm What heights of love, what depths of peace When fears are …

  • SHINE!

    Author Anne Lamott once wrote that thepeople she admires have "purpose, heart, balance, gratitude, joy. . . .They follow a brighter light than the glimmer of their own candle; theyare part of something beautiful."I…

  • So, yeah, i'm sitting here waiting for this Ladies Night Out to start, it starts at 6 and it goes till 9:30, and I hope that I will enjoy it, my mom is setting up a booth and my dad is gonna come and assist her. So, I h…

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