2015 is Full of Opportunities to Change

January 10, 2015 by 1 Comment

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“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man”. Benjamin Franklin

New Year is God’s way of letting you know

that there is still a chance for you to change for the better.

Have a blessed and prosperous New Year!

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord

Read chapter 10 “Changed from Glory to Glory” from my book “Developing a Secret History with God” to inspire these changes in our lives. Available from Barnes and Amazon

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Walking the Talk

January 9, 2015 by Leave a Comment

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“To call yourself a child of God is one thing,

To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether”.  Max Lucado

Matthew 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them

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Thoughts for the New Year

January 8, 2015 by 1 Comment

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“We often spend January pensively walking through the storeroom of our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.”

Why do we all too often only consider Adam’s condition and failings after the fall never stopping for a moment to consider his condition and potential before the fall? The Lord Jesus died to restore that which was lost.

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Don’t Pack Him Away with the Christmas Decor

January 7, 2015 by 1 Comment

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This week we will all be packing away our Christmas tree decor for another year and discarding all that torn wrapping paper and empty gift boxes. We will be stripping our homes of the symbols of Christmas but don’t let us strip our hearts of love, expectation of hope, joy and peace and the sentiment of the season. We don’t have to pack away the Christmas spirit. We can pack away the symbolic babe of the nativity scene but don’t pack away the living Christ for He lives in us ! Lift Him high for the world to see all year long not only in a manger during the Christmas Season.

Galatians 2:20 It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. 

Don’t store away the light of the world with your Christmas lights.

Matthew 5:13 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Don’t discard Him as you discard the dying Christmas tree losing the glory of its pines for He ever lives in all His glory.

Revelation 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore.

1 Peter 5:11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen

CHALLENGE: Pray for grace to live the Christmas message of love, peace and hope throughout the coming year.

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May You have a Fresh Epiphany

January 6, 2015 by Leave a Comment

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As the church celebrates Epiphany we think of the Magi who kept seeking until they found the Christ Child. As you read the story in the gospels you will find that after they found Him they determine in their hearts not to journey back the same way they came! May this Christmas have given us all a fresh epiphany of the Christ Child to cause us to walk a different way as we enter 2018.

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