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• Day 1: During Deployment “Love is Patient”
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• Day 6: During Deployment “Love is Not Irritable”
• Day 7: During Deployment “Love Believes the Best”
• Day 8: During Deployment “Love is Not Jealous”
• Day 9: During Deployment “Love Makes Good Impressions”
• Day 10: During Deployment “Love is Unconditional”
• Day 11: During Deployment “Love Cherishes”
• Day 12: During Deployment “Love Lets the Other Win”
• Day 13: During Deployment “Love Fights Fair”
• Day 14: During Deployment “Love Takes Delight”
• Day 15: During Deployment “Love is Honorable”
• Day 16: During Deployment “Love Intercedes”
• Day 17: During Deployment “Love Promotes Intimacy”
• Day 18: During Deployment “Love Seeks to Understand”
• Day 19: During Deployment “Love is Impossible”
• Day 20: During Deployment “Love is Jesus Christ”
• Day 21: During Deployment “Love is Satisfied in God”
• Day 22: During Deployment “Love is Faithful”
• Day 23: During Deployment “Love Always Protects”
• Day 24: During Deployment “Love vs. Lust”
• Day 25: During Deployment “Love Forgives”
• Day 26: During Deployment “Love is Responsible”
• Day 27: During Deployment “Love Encourages”
• Day 28: During Deployment “Love Makes Sacrifices”
• Day 29: During Deployment “Love’s Motivation”
• Day 30: During Deployment “Love Brings Unity”
• Day 31: During Deployment “Love and Marriage”
• Day 32: During Deployment “Love Is Faithful”
• Day 33: During Deployment “Love Completes Each Other”
• Day 34: During Deployment “Love Celebrates Godliness”
• Day 35: During Deployment “Love is Accountable”
• Day 36: During Deployment “Love is God’s Word”
• Day 37: During Deployment “Love Agrees in Prayer”
• Day 38: During Deployment “Love Fulfills Dreams”
• Day 39: During Deployment “Love Endures”
• Day 40: During Deployment “Love is a Covenant”

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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. We may make our plans, but God has the last word. – Proverbs 16:1 I think I’m like a lot of military professionals in that I pride myself in being able to make a good plan. After all, I’ve had over 20 years of training [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “If you hold to My teaching, you are really My disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” — Jesus’ words in John 8:31,32 You have heard it called many things—an A-Ha moment, a breakthrough, “it all came together,” [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “. . . . each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” — Ephesians 5:33 “Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.” — Proverbs 12:18 Picture [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one.” — Genesis 2:24 “As the Scripture says, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see.” — the words of the LORD to Moses in Deuteronomy 3:28 On the wall of my father-in-law’s office [...]

Have you ever heard statements like these,
“If I’ve done something wrong, I’m sorry.”
“. . . . and I’ll try not to do it again, but I can’t guarantee anything.”
“I was wrong to _____, but it was really your fault.”
. . . . or maybe even said them yourself? Clumsy apologies—if you can even call them apologies. And in marriage a bad apology, or lack of an apology, can begin to cost you the whole relationship.

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “When I lie down, I go to sleep in peace; you alone, O LORD, keep me perfectly safe”. — Psalms 4:8 I don’t know what scares you, but there are a few things that cause me to doubt my safety. I hate deep water, for [...]

. . . . . and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. — Psalm 23:6 It was the very last word that my Mother said—“forever.” Every night after her stroke my husband and I would recite with her, as best she could, the Lord’s Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, and then end [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you [...]