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Daily Encouragement - November 4

The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for...

Daily Encouragement - November 3

Jeremiah 32:17 NIV “Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too...

Daily Encouragement - November 2

Genesis 1:1” In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Only the Divine matters, And because the Divine matters, Everything...

Daily Encouragement - October 31

Judges 16:18 (The Message) When Delilah realized that he had told her his secret, she sent for the Philistine tyrants, telling them,...

Friday Greetings - October 30

Isaac Newton once wrote to a friend, “if I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” Every year on the first...

Daily Encouragement - October 30

But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I...

Daily Encouragement - October 29

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does...

Daily Encouragement - October 28

We live in a world of instant gratification. We want it our way right away. Is your internet too slow? Pay for the upgraded higher speed!...

Daily Encouragement - October 27

Matthew 22:34-40 NRSV When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer,...

Daily Encouragement - October 26

1John 4:7-8, 19 “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever...

Daily Encouragement - October 24

Joshua 24:15 (RSV) And if you be unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers and...

Friday Greetings - October 23

Angelus Silesius was a seventeenth century mystic and he once wrote, “Shout on, O Seraphim, that which of you one reads; I know that God,...

Daily Encouragement - October 23

You shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your...

Daily Encouragement - October 22

The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who dwell in it. Psalm 24:1 I lift up my eyes to the hills – from...

Daily Encouragement - October 21

1 Thessalonians 1-10 CEB From Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy. To the Thessalonians’ church that is in God the Father and the Lord Jesus...

Daily Encouragement - October 20

Matthew 22:17-22 NIV 17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a] to Caesar or not?” 18 But Jesus,...

Daily Encouragement - October 19

Romans 13:8 “Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.” As many of you know,...

Daily Encouragement - October 17

Joshua 10:40-41 (The Message) Joshua took the whole country: hills, desert foothills, and mountain slopes, including all kings. He left...

Friday Greetings - October 16

Most reading these words look forward to Sunday worship. Whether in person, online, on the radio…whatever format we are able to connect...

Daily Encouragement - October 16

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to...