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Things God Created
In Sunday School for the past few Sundays, we've been teaching the little kids about God creating everything. Yesterday morning the teacher was asking the kids to name things that God created. They named various animals and plants, and had a good time. Then in my head...
Cleaning the House
Sometimes your house just needs a good deep cleaning. But between those cleanings, it won't need that kind of deep cleaning as often if you do maintenance cleaning. If you do a little bit of something every day, like putting things back right when you're done with...
Notes on Suffering
Many times you will not truly know and see just how good God is until you suffer. There is no amount of suffering that can exhaust God's grace, mercy, and glory. We are promised the storm. Sometimes following Christ will bring suffering - not merely inconvenience, but...
Daily Bible Reading
I highly recommend reading the Bible every day. Whether you want to focus on a portion of it for a week or a month, focus on parts to memorize, or read the whole thing through in a year, reading it every day really gives you a better sense of what's in it. Being...
Church as the Body of Christ
In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul compares local church to a body that acts like an extension of Jesus as it does Jesus' will in the world around it. Sometimes we Christians get so used to this idea that it becomes like a display piece we walk by so much that we stop noticing...
Guarding and Keeping Your Heart
In Proverbs 4:23 we are told how important it is to keep or guard our hearts. I decided to look at the original Hebrew meaning for some of the words. (For this post I'm reading KJV, but I see no reason not to use a different translation. Since we're looking at the...