Sep
28
Anonymous
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld His love from me! — Psalm 66:20, Anonymous, written after a great victory in battle (according to The Living Bible NIV translation) “I asked God for strength that I might achieve, I was [...]
Sep
24
Compartmentalization
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.” —Romans 11:36 Because of the pressing need to clean out our attic and closets, I have been diligently going through boxes and old clothing. In a [...]
Sep
21
Just a Piece of Paper?
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.” — 2 Corinthians 3:3 During the debate over [...]
Sep
17
The “Say So”
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Let the redeemed of the LORD say so. —Psalm 107:2 It has been a summer of verbalizations for us, it seems. Weddings we have gone to, where the bride and groom declare their vows to each other, to witnesses, and to God. Funerals we have [...]
Sep
14
Thoughts from the Desert
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. — Hebrews 4:12 [...]
Sep
10
Happy Anniversary, Excellent or Praiseworthy . . . .
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” —2 Timothy 3:16 It all started at a church near Ft. Hood, Texas. We were meeting [...]
Sep
7
Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.” —Hebrews 13:4 Have you ever heard the phrase “Absence makes the heart grow fonder” and wondered if that was really true during [...]
Sep
3
Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. . .” — [...]