Ecclesiastes 7:9 – Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools. Anger flares faster than a struck match and explodes like dynamite. It scars hearts and minds and kills many relationships. Don’t justify anger that does not bring good fruit. Some will rise up quickly to (angrily) ask “What…
Continue ReadingActs 17:22 – Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very…
Continue ReadingIsaiah 43:18-19 – Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Ecclesiastes 3:11 – He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the…
Continue ReadingEcclesiastes 4:12 – Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Yesterday I gave my keys to my parents’ house to the buyer’s real estate agent. The buyer had completed her final walk through of the house, but asked if I would wait for her parents, from another country,…
Continue ReadingActs 14:1-7 – At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed. 2 But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. 3 So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed…
Continue ReadingActs 7:1-51 / 31-34 – When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to get a closer look, he heard the Lord say: 32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look. 33 “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take…
Continue ReadingRevelation 20:11-15 – Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according…
Continue ReadingGalatians 3:26 – So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. Colossians 1:12 – Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— Ephesians 2:10 – For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.…
Continue Reading“Sorry” starts with love, is hampered by pride, perpetuated by vision and is a benefactor to those who do so and move on. Sorry is a greater benefit to the those who say it then to the intended recipient of it. Wrath, anger, vengeance is a deadly poison consumed to kill someone else, but only…
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