For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure, (Philippians 2:13)...
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, Philippians 2:5....
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in Me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing, (John 15:5)....
Dear Faith Family, For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building, (1 Corinthians 3:9). It was insensitive, inconsiderate, unimaginable, unthinkable, dare I say it, inconctheivable! I mean my "back forty" is a work of art. For years I've worked the soil adding compost, tilling, watering, and weeding. The 8'X12' garden plot in my backyard is fraught ...
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Dear Faith Family, Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving, Colossians 2:6-7. All it takes is a pole, a ball, and something to connect the ball to the pole. Tetherball here we come! The rallying point for fierce competitors becomes the pol...
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Dear Faith Family, Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table, Matthew 26:6. As newlyweds, my wife and I enjoyed life in a small town. We would travel to "the city" to pick up groceries, etc. On one trip, I noticed someone...
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Dear Faith Family, I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth, (John 1...
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