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Just a thought by coppi
Howard Rutledge came to appreciate his time as a POW in Vietnam. He wrote, “After twenty-eight days of torture, I could remember I had children but not how many. I prayed for strength. During long periods of enforced reflection, it became so much easier to separate the important from the trivial. My hunger for spiritual…
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Ezekiel 47:12 “And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their…
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2022 Ps 34:4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me & delivered me from all my fears Confidence is a word that alludes me. My life growing up was lacking self confidence. I stuttered & shook if I had to say anything in front of people. School was not a good time in my life. I was…
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2022 Romans 2:29…….and true circumcision is not merely obeying the letter of the law; rather, it is a changed of heart produced by the spirit & a person with a a changed heart seeks praise from God, not from man. As I read this scripture written by Paul, who used to be Saul. A devout Jew who…
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Just a thought by coppi “Life is not a straight line, it is filled with highs & lows & looking back never moves us forward”. “Moving forward in faith is about trusting God to make a path in desolate places”. My friend told me before she married her husband, she started to tell him all…
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Henri Nouwen was right: “The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God, and that I can be free in the world—free to speak even when my words are not received; free to act when my actions are criticized, ridiculed, or considered useless; free also to receive love…
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1922 “Then Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”” Luke 6:5 NIV The Pharisees were angry with Jesus for eating on the Sabbath and healing the sick on the Sabbath – the Sabbath was a day of doing nothing even if it was doing something good. They condemned him mercilessly…
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In Isaiah 6:1-6, Isaiah’s encounter with the living God speaks to the truth of transformation through experience. In response to seeing “the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up” and hearing the Seraphim calling to one another, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory,” Isaiah’s natural response was, “Woe is…
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2022 “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish. John 21:6 – NIV version I remember many years ago I was facing a test that I was frightened to have because…
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Just a thought by coppi – July 1917 written. There are miracles all around us all the time, yet it’s so easy to find something to complain about in the midst of those miracles. The simple act of reading involves millions of impulses firing across billions of synapses. While you’re reading, your heart goes about…
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