The temple of God is holy, and you are that temple. 1 Corinthians 3:17 Growing up in the South, references to keeping God’s temple holy usually meant that you shouldn’t “drink, smoke, or kiss girls (boys) that do” and a prohibition from doing a whole lot of stuff that one was inclined to experience. The…
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A Soft Answer
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir anger. – Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer – again we meditate on a phrase in the Bible that carries so much meaning. Try this out sometime soon. When you really want someone’s attention lower your voice. Notice that in the listener’s straining to hear…
First Monday in Advent
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. – Hebrews 12:1 Great may the danger near, Greater are the friends…
My Love For Thee
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. – Isaiah 48:10 Be patient, suffering soul! I hear thy cry. The trial fires may glow, but I am nigh. I see the silver, and I will refine Until my image shall upon it shine. Fear…
Family of God
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. – Ephesians 3:15 So much is made about differences – Men and women; black, white, brown and yellow; gay and straight, Christian and Jew, Sunni and Shiite, Buddhist and Hindu, Republican and Democrat, Conservative and Liberal, Have and Have-not, the list goes on…