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Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.Ecclesiastes 9:10 NASB There is consensus that 10,000 hours or 10 years doth an expert make! I read a book recently that added a new wrinkle! It is entitled Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela...
Happy are the people whose God is the Lord.Psalm 144:15 Let’s get real. How many people are really happy? We all know there are many irritations and disappointments in life but still this verse in Psalm 144 is very clear. Scripture says God’s people are happy people...
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God. do not forsake me,until I proclaim Your might to another generation,Your power to all those to come.Psalm 71:18 Anti-aging seems to be the hot topic of the day. Sales of life extending products have skyrocketed in the US...
Thanks be to God for His inexpressible gift!2 Corinthians 9:15 ESV I've been thinking about gifts... Have you ever noticed how some gift givers get it right? When a gift is given in love and meets a real need, that gift can touch the heart and sometimes even the soul...
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!Ecclesiastes 4:9&10 William Nesbitt was a navy doctor in WWII,...
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.I John 4:10&11 (ESV) I admit it! I am deeply loved! As a little girl growing up in...
All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces knowthat if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called,there is but one law—to be put to death, except to whom the king holds outthe golden scepter so that he may...
Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2 Paul Kalanithi (April 1, 1977-March 9, 2015) was an Indian-American neurosurgeon and writer. He was a neurosurgical chief resident when he contracted stage IV metastatic lung cancer...
For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.Romans 14:11-12 ESV It has been said that every action touches some chord that will vibrate in...
Years ago I remember sitting in a little Methodist church with my Sunday school teacher. In my memory she is a big presence and I am very small. I can hardly sit still because I am anxious to recite Psalm 23 and The Lord’s Prayer. My faith roots are developing and...