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• Day 19: During Deployment “Love is Impossible”
• Day 20: During Deployment “Love is Jesus Christ”
• Day 21: During Deployment “Love is Satisfied in God”
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• Day 23: During Deployment “Love Always Protects”
• Day 24: During Deployment “Love vs. Lust”
• Day 25: During Deployment “Love Forgives”
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• 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”
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• 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. Editor’s Notes: This posting is taken from Day 23 of “The Deployment Dare” which is found on the sidebar of Excellent or Praiseworthy. If you have wondered how you would accomplish The Love Dare while deployed, check it out. “The 40 Day Deployment Dare” was [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. In memory of Denise McColl, who went home to be with our Lord three years ago on March 29, 2008. . . and in honor of the McColl family who demonstrated great love and care. . .we are re-posting this devotional.  It was originally posted [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.  And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.  God is love. —I John 4:15,16 “Identity Crisis” is a long devotion—the longest we [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “This is what the LORD says—Israel’s King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from Me there is no God.” — Isaiah 44:6 Because of the rigors of deployment and the struggles of life, have you started [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.  Who is it that overcomes the world?  Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. — 1 John 5:4, 5 No doubt you associate March 17th each year as St. [...]

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.” — Matthew 6:33 “The most important one (commandment),” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.’ Love the Lord [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.” — Jeremiah 31:3 “It was the love letters—that’s what really helped.” I was having a conversation with a military wife who had struggled for years through an unhappy marriage—but had seen [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?’ —John 11:25 While researching the material for the new [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety. — Psalm 4:8 Sleep—it is a precious commodity. When my children were small I slept with one ear tuned to the pitch of their voices. I would [...]