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Daily Encouragement - July 4

And Lot said to them, "Oh, no, my lords; your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life;...

Friday Greetings - July 3

July 4, 1776 is a somewhat arbitrary moment to celebrate. The Declaration of Independence was actually passed on July 2, 1776. The...

Daily Encouragement - July 3

How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I bear pain[a] in my soul, and have...

Daily Encouragement - July 2

Do not fear, for redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and...

Daily Encouragement - July 1

Matthew 23:11-12 11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble...

Daily Encouragement - June 30

Surely, God is my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid: for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and has become my...

Daily Encouragement - June 29

Matthew 10:42, “and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple – truly I tell you, none...

Daily Encouragement - June 27

Genesis 1:1-3 1: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2: The earth was without form and void, and darkness was...

Friday Greetings - June 26

Pastors have a tendency to live by a different calendar. When the rest of the world is experiencing Christmas, we tend to be thinking...

Daily Encouragement - June 26

God makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. — Matthew 5:45 There has been...

Daily Encouragement - June 25

Rejoice in the Lord always, again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about...

Daily Encouragement - June 24

Psalm 86 Teach me your way, Lord, so that I can walk in your truth. Make my heart focused only on honoring your name....

Daily Encouragement - June 23

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 For you were...

Daily Encouragement - June 22

Joshua 24:14-15 Now therefore revere the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods that your ancestors...

Daily Encouragement - June 20

Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”...

Friday Greetings - June 19

In the 1990’s sociologists starting talking about “third places.” By that they meant the third anchor of our lives, the third place we...

Daily Encouragement - June 19

When he came to Nazereth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to...

Daily Encouragement - June 18

Micah 6:8 He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to...

Daily Encouragement - June 17

The Crux Crux: Latin for cross: now means the point of decision. (Didn’t it always?) Also appearing in words like crucify, crucifer,...

Daily Encouragement - June 16

Genesis 17:1-6, 15-17 (NRSV) When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me...