Aug
30
Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “ . . . . but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.” — Romans 5:4 What would happen if we viewed deployment as an opportunity for character-building in our military children? Think about [...]
Aug
26
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. — II Timothy 3:16,17 The answer from the young military members coming to our church was, [...]
Aug
23
Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. But He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.’ . . . .That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, [...]
Aug
19
Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.” —Jeremiah 29:12,13 On the battlefields of the Civil War, one hundred and [...]
Aug
16
What Not to Say
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. – Colossians 4:6 I’ve made a list of things people hate to hear when their spouse is deployed. Perhaps you could add to this list, [...]
Aug
12
Beautiful Lessons in a Bad Day
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. — Matthew 6:33-34a On the worst day of last week I walked into the [...]
Aug
9
Through It All
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the [...]
Aug
5
iWorship
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Excellent of Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me.” — Exodus 20:1-3 I used to sneer with prideful arrogance whenever I read Exodus 32:1-4: “Now [...]
Aug
2
Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. We love because He first loved us. — I John 4:19 Brian’s writing on Joker One (July 29, 2010) motivated me—so I bought a copy of the inspiring book for myself. In the next-to-last chapter I lingered as I read this part: “I couldn’t in [...]