May
31
Some Gave All
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. — John 15:13 Time spent with chaplains is precious time. Recently we shared that precious time with a Navy chaplain who gave us a glimpse into his world of [...]
May
27
Taps
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? If I go up to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in the depths, You are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if [...]
May
24
Sunday Night Prayers
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this is mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. — Ephesians 6:18 It’s Sunday night—so I know I’ll be getting an email prayer from [...]
May
20
Family Values
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 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 [...]
May
17
Talking to Yourself
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him for the help of His presence. — Psalm 42:5 Has loneliness during deployment caused you to “talk to yourself”? Do [...]
May
13
When Surrender Means Victory
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.’ — Jeremiah 29:11 From the first week of her new husband’s deployment to Iraq until he came [...]
May
10
Don’t Leave Home Without It
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Make plans by seeking advice. . .Proverbs 20:18a Our flight was delayed—eventually cancelled. The rush to get everything done with work and home in order to get out-of-town had left us exhausted, so standing in a long line to be re-routed was a bit of [...]
May
6
Mother’s Day Perspective
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD’S great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. — Lamentations 3:21-23 When I face some new challenge in [...]
May
3
Dirt Gets a Bad Rap
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For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. — John 3:16,17 Dirt gets a bad rap. [...]