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Thankful Attitude
It is important to exercise your thankfulness muscles daily. Not only is thankfulness commanded and appropriate (Psalm 136; 1 Thessalonians 5:18), taking some time every day to thank God and others makes you healthier all around. It gets your mind into a habit of...
Friendship with God
This is a bit connected to God's Feelings. God wants to have a relationship with us. God wants to be more than just our King and our Father, He wants to be our Friend. You spend time with a friend and get to know them, and they do the same with you. It goes both ways....
Thankful for Salvation
As I was praying in bed this morning, I was taking a little more time to thank God than usual. I thanked Him for everything that came to mind, big things and little things. As I prayed I realized that all the things I was thanking Him for were things that I don't...
God’s Feelings
In The One Year Hearing His Voice Devotional by Chris Tiegreen, I read the other day about our feelings connecting us with God. The Sunday School lesson yesterday added to what I'd found. God is not a detached, impassive being. He has emotions and feelings, and gave...
Trusting God with Others
In the sermon last Sunday evening one of our young men preached. He talked about when God told Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac (Genesis 22:1-18), and how Abraham had to trust God not with his own life this time, but with his son's life. He pointed out that parents...
Living Like a Fool
The sermon yesterday morning prompted this post. In Psalm 14:1 we see that the fool says in his heart that there is no God. We find this verse quite easy to apply to atheists, but how many times have we Christians behaved and made decisions as if there is no God? We...