Continue reading “Don’t Follow Your Heart”Guard your heart with all vigilance,
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for from it are the sources of life.
Remove perverse speech from your mouth;
keep devious talk far from your lips.
Let your eyes look directly in front of you
and let your gaze look straight before you.
Make the path for your feet level,
so that all your ways may be established.
Do not turn to the right or to the left;
turn yourself away from evil. Proverbs 4:23-27
Forgiving is Hard
Continue reading “Forgiving is Hard”Then Peter came to him and said, “Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother who sins against me? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, I tell you, but seventy-seven times!” Matthew 18:21-22
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What I Understand
For the past weeks I’ve been reading the book of Revelation. I currently finished chapter 17 moments before typing this post. It’s crazy, there is just so much that I don’t understand about this book. Tragic events, glorious moments, and incomprehensible instances are recorded for us to read. Honestly, I can get caught up in my confusion and miss the importance of the one thing I actually understand from this book.
Continue reading “What I Understand”Faith Means Action
You’ve often heard the phrase “love is action,” but I’d go a step farther and say that faith is action too. So many people like to throw around the phrase “I’ve got faith.” Even some secular songs speak of having faith. Yet, not everyone who flippantly uses the phrase has faith. Thus, the question must be asked, how can you tell if a person has faith?
Continue reading “Faith Means Action”Does It Change You?
Continue reading “Does It Change You?”For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart. Hebrews 4:12
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Not Even Adequate
Continue reading “Not Even Adequate”Now we have such confidence in God through Christ. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 2 Corinthians 3:4-6
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Words Can Kill
Continue reading “Words Can Kill”From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters. A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it? Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water. James 3:10-12
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Who Will You Serve?
Continue reading “Who Will You Serve?”For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace. Romans 6:14
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The Only Way
Continue reading “The Only Way”Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6
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Trust in the Lord
Continue reading “Trust in the Lord”Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6
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