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June 12, 2018

When Your Prayers Aren’t Answered How You Desire

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – June 12, 2018 By Shana Schutte Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet [...]

June 11, 2018

Knowing God Versus Knowing About God

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – June 11, 2018 (Inspired to write these ideas by my recent reread of Knowing God by J.I. Packer) With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him. Those who are wise will instruct many, [...]

June 7, 2018

The Gift of Boundaries

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – June 7, 2018 By Tripp Prince The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. Psalm 16:6 (NIV) Early in life, we are confronted with our limitations. For me, they were athletic. No matter how much I might have wanted it [...]

June 6, 2018

You Are God’s Unique and Beautiful Work of Art

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – June 6, 2018 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to [...]

June 5, 2018

Becoming a Bonus Mom

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – June 5, 2018 By Shana Schutte Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves. Philippians 2:3 When I was in my twenties, I had a plan to meet and marry an amazing Christian man and birth two or three [...]

June 4, 2018

Spiritual Dry Seasons

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – June 4, 2018 Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. Ezekiel 37:4-5 From time to time we all experience spiritual dry seasons. God can [...]

June 3, 2018

Death of Discouragement

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – June 3, 2018 Be strong and courageous.… The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Deuteronomy 31:6 God is with you; through faith in Jesus He is [...]

May 31, 2018

A Way of Life

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – May 31, 2018 By Tripp Prince For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life. Ephesians 2:10 (NRSV) We spend so much of our lives struggling with big questions of identity [...]

May 29, 2018

Believing God’s Love and Serving with Joy

Thoughts from daily Bible reading for today – May 29, 2018 By Shana Schutte He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit. Titus 3:5 There are times when I am slow to get particular [...]

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