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🎃HOLLYWOOD, HORROR MOVIES, & ENTERTAINMENT
When people seek help for issues such as anxiety, fear, worry, or depression one of the first things many counselors suggest is a journal of the movies, programs, books, or music the person watches, reads, or listens to. Or the counselor may say “I’m thinking some of your favorite TV shows might be…..” with surprising accuracy.
🦈BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT
Because the Sea of Galilee is fresh water, there are no sharks. In fact, it has no dangerous marine life, no barracudas or even jellyfish. With Peter being a commercial fisherman, and had there been sharks in the Sea of Galilee, he might have said, “be sober, be...
✝The Christian Life: Nothing to it, right?
“In and of ourselves we can produce artificial fruit which may look amazingly real, but only the Holy Spirit can produce genuine fruit”
Cultural Christianity
The good news is that God has a plan for each of us, to prosper and not to harm us, giving us a future and a hope. The bad news is the world, the flesh, and the devil have a very different plan to kill, steal, and destroy.
🦺Undertow, Rip Currents, and a Really Short Prayer
When facing the storms of life, it’s great to have a lifeguard who walks on the water!
The Summer of ‘21
Dare we hope! As we enter the second summer of the second year of the global pandemic, and depending on who we listen to, there may be hope for a return to some semblance of normalcy. Some “experts” have said that if enough people are vaccinated, we might soon see...
Knowing God Requires Faith
Faith can be a very elusive concept. One definition of faith is confidence in a person or a thing. As commonly used, the phrase “keep the faith” can apply to anything from a football game to the stock market. For believers, faith is much more. Faith is the...
The Best Friend Ever
Our devotional time each day is time that we invest with our dearest friend who loves us most. He’s there 24/7/365 desiring a relationship with us that He suffered and died to make possible.
Where Has The Love Gone? ❤️
For decades the cold, gray days of winter have been warmed by the love of Valentine’s Day. But this year it seems that the red and pink hearts, flowers, and heart shaped boxes of candy have been overshadowed by face masks, hand sanitizer, and a pandemic whose numbers...
STEPS TOWARD A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
By building, and planning, our hopes and lives on the Truth of His Word we have every reason to be optimistic and to expect that 2021 will be a very Happy New Year!
The Power of Thankfulness
If there were a list of modern day heroes of the faith, Corrie ten Boom would surely be near the top. Corrie was the youngest child of a devout Christian family in the Netherlands. As a deeply caring young girl, Corrie loved animals, especially birds, and people. She...
3 Ways to Battle Fear
There are a couple of kinds of fear. There’s the “fun” kind of fear that somehow draws many people’s attention—the scary movie, the newest roller coaster, the murder mystery novel. But there is another type of fear that is anything but fun.