Growing, telling, belonging


evanlaar1922's avatarDisciple

My response to Psalm 117 is a familiar response to one who wants to be a disciple of Jesus. It is simply to tell the world the Good News. I need to look for those who cannot come to church, do not come to church or will not come to church. That is a challenge for 2020.

    Extol him, all peoples!
For great is his steadfast love toward us,
    and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord! – Psalm 117:1-2 ESV

I can do this because I have a sense of belonging – I have security in God’s care.  

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,
    which cannot be moved, but abides forever. – Psalm 125:1 ESV

I heard so many teachings as a teenager and young adult about the danger of being a lukewarm Christian. I did have a sense of…

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Compare Quality Of Life By State And Nation, Liberal Or Conservative, Religious Or Secular


Andy Rhodes's avatarPersuade Me Politics

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When comparing quality of life conditions between advanced Western capitalist nations and individual states within the U.S., a growing amount of data shows that those which are the most extremely conservative and religious are very often the most violent and plagued with far greater social problems in more than a dozen categories like overall crime, economic mobility, infant mortality, overall poverty, environmental abuse, teen pregnancy, incarceration, life expectancy, murder, education, childhood poverty, healthcare efficiency, “best-for-business” conditions, average worker to CEO pay ratio, paid maternity leave, gun violence, obesity, income inequality and minimal worker’s benefits. Extreme liberalism, such as with revolutionary communism, also seriously detracts from quality of life. This ideology has had a very weak following around the world since the late 20th century. Extreme social and economic conservatism, in contrast, have been increasingly popular among a large segment of the American population during the past four decades.

This article…

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Just For Today: Dreams Take Time


AlwaysShawna's avatarAlwaysShawna

The past few weeks, I’ve allowed myself to pile my mind up with so many ideas that I was beginning to lose myself in all the clutter. I want to do this… I want to do that… my mind was non-stop with wonderful ideas. I began to feel this feeling of uneasiness and overwhelm so I had to take a few steps back and look at my mindset and start to communicate more with God. I began to talk out loud saying ” God, this can’t be right I’m feeling overwhelmed and way too anxious”. The answered I got back was an eye opener for me ” Just because you are following me, doesn’t make you superwoman”. Why would I think I could take on so many things at once. Now I know.

Dreams take time and they can only be accomplished one day at a time. There’s no need to try…

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NASA have Selected the Landing Site for Mars 2020 Mission


Grateful


moreprayerplease's avatarMore Prayer Please

Dear Lord,

Thank you for this day. I am grateful for my family and friends and I pray my enemies find peace in their lives through You.

I am grateful for the roof over my head and food in the fridge.

I am grateful for the wonderful man in my life who you have allowed me to cross paths with. He is loving and caring…a wonderful person. Thank You.

I am grateful for our two cats, they have quite the personalities. They bring love, peace, comfort and humor to our home.

I am grateful for my job. I work with good people. I have a good boss and I am within walking distance. Very grateful for that.

I am grateful to finally start having a true relationship with you Lord. I am grateful to be back in church. I enjoy the women’s Sunday School class. Thank You.

I am most…

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Raising kids not ever easy…. :P


lokeshguruu's avatardarshandesai54

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Oh no dear don’t do that your daddy agree with u….hahahaha… :P

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Strength


Sarah Maat's avatarSarah Maat

photo-24744428-silhouette-of-a-man-flexing-muscles..jpgA strong person is someone who has been weak, but has allowed themselves to be repaired by God.

They have learned to embrace when bad things happen, because they know the outcome will make them a better individual.

It is impossible to be unaffected by the things in this world. We all have feelings.

A person is not strong because they somehow have more strength than you, we are all equal. We are all weak. They are that way because they have faith.

They know that storms don’t last forever. Without rain, we cannot grow. So instead of staying in the drought, they take that water and use it. They understand it is necessary for growth.

They understand that when bad times arise, it is an opportunity to learn. Sometimes, these so called “struggles” we face, allow us to learn the most about ourselves.

And, without the

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Teach Me To Number My Days


TheMoniqueWanderer's avatarThe Monique Wanderer

I can so easily live my life as if it will go on forever. I’m so caught on maybe next time, dilly dallying and waiting for the best moment yet to come. Yet losing someone I love recently reminded me not to save the best for the last. Because the best is ME, HERE, where I am RIGHT NOW, brightly lit and painfully now.

Lord I know I may not have as much time as I think. I pray to let me experience all that life has to offer and to offer all that I am to You for the remaining years of my life. Teach me, Lord, to number my days, so that I might grow in wisdom, so that I might live each day in the best possible way with the people that matters to me the most. Help me to strive to fill each day with value…

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Watch “Remembering Neil Armstrong and his Legacy” on YouTube


Know God’s Heart


DrAbaBrown's avatarMarriage is...

Read 1 Peter 4:12-19.
As you seek to follow the Lord’s commands in His Word with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength, be prepared for flack from the enemy. What does Peter say not to be surprised about? How does he say to respond?

SHARE GOD’S HEART

Ask the Lord to continue to grow your love for your husband and to give you His love for your husband. But don’t stop there. Ask Him to give you a glimpse of His vision for your husband so that you can come alongside him in every way possible. Lay down your life and follow Christ, die to self and pick up your cross, and be a servant of all, beginning first with your husband. Ask the Lord to show you some way that you can serve your husband this week. Then ask your husband how…

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We are Not Unique: New Revelation on Earth’s Origin Shatter Previous Scientific Beliefs


Stefano Pierini's avatarFocus Education

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A new study suggests that the Earth and other planetary objects formed in the early years of the solar system have the same chemical origins.

The Earth and other extraterrestrial objects that formed during the early years of the solar system share the same chemical origins, according to a new study.

Audrey Bouvier, a cosmochemist at the Western University in Ontario, Canada, discovered that the Earth shares the same chemical origin with other primitive materials in the solar system–a finding that shatters previous scientific beliefs about the Earth’s origins.

“How the Earth was formed and what type of planetary materials were part of that formation are issues that have puzzled generations of scientists,” Bouvier, who is also curator of the Western Meteorite Collection and principal investigator at Western University’s Center for Planetary Science and Exploration, said in a news release.

“And these new isotopic measurements of meteorites provide exciting…

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weekend read:sermons of John G. Lake compiled by roberts liardon.


flight aflame by nabilah tlhale's avatarflight aflame

Acts 1:1-2 in my first book i told you ,theophilus,about everything Jesus began to do and teach until the day he was taken to heaven after giving his chosen apostles further instructions through the holy spirit.

Today i have found a book while perusing our bookshelf at home and found an interesting book neatly tucked in entitled your power in the holy spirit by john g. lake as compiled by roberts liardon.as most know john g. lake is one of GOD’s generals and his ministry even reached here in southern africa,this book is a collection of his sermons from booklets,radio addresses and sermons in conventions spanning from the years 1910 to 1921.

The blurb:

 john g. lake was anointed with God with power to reach the sick and lost in miraculous ways.over 100 00 healings were recorded in five years through his ministry.You, too, can personally experience the outpouring…

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dear depression


Kira's avatarKira's Hymn

oh sadness sadness dear
hello again old friend
come draw the curtains
come lay with me in bed
on my chest heavy ladened
my burdens litter the floor
i can’t talk can’t dream can’t get up anymore
fixate on fixating
this question berating
your last smokes takes hits from that same drug defeat
“where are you going?”
where am I going?
the world’s moving while I’m stuck
staring at these two feet
not the son that rises
not the person carrying me
surely not securely
bend broken bent
my will to progress forward coward lies regressed enfolds depressed in folds repressed in fetal position possessed and fools repeat
i’m lost sadness
leave me please
but you overstay again until I’m crushed again and my motivations remain chained deceased

where are you going
©Kira Shymn

~~posted on 3.7.18
~~written on 3.5.18

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