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And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they...

We love him, because he first loved us. —1 John 4:19 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... It's all very simple. God is love. He is love's origin, example, and architect. I love because he loved me first. I know how to love because he has demonstrated it. I can love because he made me in his...

We AREN'T enough, but He is. It is the goodness of the Lord that brings us nose-to-nose with our desperate need for Him. Did you know it's okay to start over? To realize that we've missed the boat, you don't need to keep trying to correct a wobbly course, but you can go alllllll the way...

I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. —Psalm 18:1-2 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... We sing it and we say it in our public...

And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. —Mark 9:35 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Last? Nobody likes to be last. We have a hard enough time settling for second place, much less last...

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake... —Philippians 1:29 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Suffer! How is suffering a privilege? It's not unless it is for Jesus. Remember how the early apostles were joyful because they...

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. —Psalm 119:30 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Yesterday we made a commitment to follow the Lord Jesus whole-heartedly. Let's not forget it and slip back into old habits and bad patterns. Let's choose the way of truth...

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! —Proverbs 16:16 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... What are the greatest riches in life? Well surely they are not silver and gold. Of infinitely greater value is wisdom, which helps us...

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. —Romans 6:14 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... As we called on Jesus name in baptism and trusted him to be our Savior, we died to sin. In this death, we die to dying and pass from death to life because...

Perhaps the biggest gift of I suppose it's safe to say we all have "Jonah Days," as Anne of Green Gables called them. Hard days. Crashing off a wonderful weekend to nitty-gritty Mondays that stretch into Tuesdays. Days when the AC breaks, the refrigerator sits in the middle of the kitchen...

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. —Joshua 1:9 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... While these words were spoken to Joshua when he took over for Moses, they are also...

[Jesus said,] "All that belongs to the Father is mine; this is why I said, 'The Spirit will tell you whatever he receives from me.'" —John 16:15 NLT Key Thought The source of our truth is God. His Spirit of truth will tell us everything he has received from the Son and make it clear to us...

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. —Proverbs 3:3-4 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... Character is measured by the love and faithfulness we...

On the final and climactic day of the Feast, Jesus took his stand. He cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way, just as the Scripture says." (He said this in regard to the...

For it is impossible to bring back to repentance those who were once enlightened — those who have experienced the good things of heaven and shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the power of the age to come — and who then turn away from God ... —Hebrews...

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. —Hebrews 13:2 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... What do you you do to welcome new neighbors into your neighborhood or apartment complex? How warmly do you personally welcome visitors at your church or...

[Jesus:] "I tell you the truth, all sin and blasphemy can be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. This is a sin with eternal consequences." He told them this because they were saying, "He's possessed by an evil spirit." —Mark 3:28-30 NLT Key Thought What...

But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine." —Isaiah 43:1 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... We belong to the LORD, God of all creation, and God of Abraham, Isaac...

Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said, "This is what God says: Why do you disobey the LORD's commands and keep yourselves from prospering? You have abandoned the LORD, and now he has abandoned you!" —2 Chronicles 24:20 NLT...

I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. —John 17:4 (KJV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... One of the most amazing things that Jesus ever said, he said to his Father in heaven: "I have completed the work you gave me to do..." In fact, when he...