But what is eternal life? Is it eternal self-esteem? Is it a heaven full of mirrors? Or snowboards, or gold links, or black-eyed virgins? No. Jesus tells us exactly what he meant: “And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (John 17:3). What [...]

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Photo Credit: slicedbreadmag.com Saving faith is the cry of a new creature in Christ. And the newness of the new creature is that it has a new taste. What was once distasteful or bland is now craved. Christ himself has become a Treasure Chest of holy joy. The tree of faith grows only in the [...]

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  To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. ~ Louis L’amour Faith in the unseen. For some it is impossible. For others, it is a desire. For those who know God, it is a daily reality. Craig Brian Larson says, “Faith is the ability to trust what we cannot [...]

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“Do you think, asks the Sovereign Lord, that I like to see wicked people die? Of course not! I only want them to turn from their wicked ways and live.” ~ Lord in Ezekiel 18:23 (NLT) For most people, the will of God is one of the great mysteries of life. “What does God want [...]

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  The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed.  But the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show. ~ Charles Caleb Colton At the center of our lives lies the one reality that drives us. It manifests itself in the realities of [...]

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  It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick Why are you seeking Jesus? At the center of your life quest, what really drives you? The answer to this question will reveal your heart’s direction. Our purpose for living [...]

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Photo Credit: fvdb.wordpress.com Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight.  Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward.  Your life will never be the same again. ~ Og Mandino Perhaps you [...]

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Photo Credit: halyork.blogspot.com Faith is about confronting challenges and trusting God to overcome any obstacle. It is acting on God-given dreams and visions. ~ Kirbyjon Caldwell You know the feeling when you step out by faith and get clobbered by reality. We all have had a situation or time in our lives where we went [...]

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Photo Credit: vimeo.com Faith has nothing to do with human logic, mathematics or what we can see, hear, fell, smell, or touch. But it has everything to do with how God operates! Faith disregards the obvious facts and trust that God will do the impossible. ~ K P Yohanan Sometimes God simply asks the incredible, [...]

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Photo Credit: jamesmcgahey.blogspot.com The secret lies in how we handle today, not yesterday or tomorrow.  Today … that special block of time holding the key that locks out yesterday’s nightmares and unlocks tomorrow’s dreams. ~ Charles Swindoll Do you suffer from impulsiveness? Wikipedia defines it as “a tendency to act on a whim, displaying behavior [...]

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