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Monthly Archives: March 2019
Hope For Today – I Give Them Eternal Life
It’s a time to celebrate the great love of God as witnessed by the giving heart of His Son, Jesus! I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope For Today about how I Give Them Eternal … Continue reading
Posted in Hope For Today, Transformed
Tagged acceptance, assumption, broken, celebrate, compassion, Easter, eternal life, faith, family, friends, gentle, Gift, God, heal, heart, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jewish, leader, logic, love, poor, sinful, Son, Son of God, tender, tenderness, Trust, worship
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Train Them Thursday – Discipling Our Children
“And when He became twelve, they went up there according to the custom of the Feast; and as they were returning, after spending the full number of days, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. But His parents were unaware … Continue reading
Posted in Discipleship, Train Them Thursdays (discipleship)
Tagged Almighty, babysit, character, child, children, disciple, discipleship, faith, father, follower, God, grace, grow, heart, Jerusalem, King, life, loyalty, maturity, Nazareth, obey, passover, path, path of life, respectful, responsibility, responsible, teenager, trade, training, wisdom
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Willing Worker Wednesday – Leave It Alone! It’s Not Yours!
“Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they asked him, “Teacher, what should we do?” He told them, “Don’t collect any more than what you have been authorized.”” (Luke 3:12–13, HCSB) Don’t collect any more than what you have … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Willing Worker Wednesdays
Tagged abundance, administration, belief, believe, business, busy, color of authority, crave, craving, forsake, government, greed, heart, IRS, King, leader, Leadership, leave, more, occupation, provide, reality, reward, servant, sin, sinful, standard, surrender, tax, thought
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Hope For Today – Having Eternal Life!
While the world celebrates with a bunny, we know it’s all about the substitutionary Lamb of God who takes away our sin! I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope For Today about how Having Eternal … Continue reading
Posted in Hope For Today, Transformed
Tagged abuse, benefits, bunny, Christ, condemnation, create, created, Easter, eternal life, eternity, family, father, forgiveness, Gift, God, harp, heaven, home, Jesus, lamb of God, Lord, lost, love, persecute, promise, reject, sin, syrrender, truth, will
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Faith Filled Friday – Do Not Delay!
“And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said, “Send me away to my master.” Her brother and her mother said, “Let the … Continue reading
Posted in faith, Faith-Filled Fridays
Tagged Almighty, apprecoate, attitude, Bible, brother, business, choice, concept, delay, diligence, disobey, empathize, excuse, experience, faith, father, God, honor, laziness, life, Lord, Master, mission, mother, obey, personal, perspective, possess, postponement, praise, procrastination, procrastinator, prosper, prosperity, relationship, respond, response, rest, servant, success, to do, wife
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Train Them Thursday – Parenting Our Children
“Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when He became twelve, they went up there according to the custom of the Feast.” (Luke 2:41–42, NASB95) Now His parents went to Jerusalem every … Continue reading
Posted in Discipleship, Train Them Thursdays (discipleship)
Tagged Christ, conversation, cross, dedication, disciple, discipleship, faith, Generation, generations, grace, heart, Jerusalem, life, lifestyle, lives, Lord, maturity, mind, Nazareth, newborn, parening, Passion, passionate, ridicule, sacrifice, songs of ascents, soul, spiritual, spiritually, supernatural, The Twelve
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Willing Worker Wednesday – Sharing Shows Caring
““What then should we do?” the crowds were asking him. He replied to them, “The one who has two shirts must share with someone who has none, and the one who has food must do the same.”” (Luke 3:10–11, HCSB) Share … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Willing Worker Wednesdays
Tagged attitude, care, clothing, commodity, driven, enemies, faith, family, food, generosity, generous, give, giving, God, heart, hectic, imitate, Jesus, leader, Leadership, money, need, neighbor, resource, sacrifice, servant, serve, share, surplus, time, travel, valuable, Value
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Turn-Around Tuesday – Happy Wife, Happy Life?
“Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it … Continue reading
Posted in 2 - Turn-Around Tuesdays (trials and troubles), Suffering
Tagged bad, believe, child, children, choice, cry out, fast, God, honor, husband, infertility, intervention, joy, life, loathing, marriage, natural, obstacle, pain, path, path of life, pray, prayer, problem, problems, progress, quality of life, regret, resolution, resolve, righteousness, sacred, sense, shortcut, solution, Son, supernatural, think, thinking, trials, trouble, union, wife, world
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