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• Day 6: During Deployment “Love is Not Irritable”
• Day 7: During Deployment “Love Believes the Best”
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• Day 9: During Deployment “Love Makes Good Impressions”
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• Day 11: During Deployment “Love Cherishes”
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• 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”
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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”
• 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. 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, [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Editor’s Note:  In honor and memory of my Mom, who passed away two years ago, I am re-posting this article. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints. — Psalm 116:15 She was a strong woman. Perhaps that came from [...]

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, [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. For the LORD is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.  — Psalm 100:5 I have written before on Excellent or Praiseworthy that when I am approached by several people about the same thing, it means that God is up [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength! — Proverbs 24:10 Think back to your childhood for a moment.  After doing something you would come to regret, were you ever told by your parents that you were “just askin’ for trouble” [...]

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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”  He called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”  [...]

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Therefore, if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. —John 8:36 I opened my email first thing this morning and read a message from a sweet military wife whose husband is in Afghanistan. She had enjoyed the prior posting, “God Bless America”—especially [...]