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Hope For Today – God Created the Family!
I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope For Today about the Biblical truth that God Created the Family! Check it out at the link below. Click the link below to listen. Hope For Today is a … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Transformed
Tagged benefit, Bible, bless, blessed, blessing, celebrate, celebration, connection, courage, courageous, dad, design, designer, difficulties, example, family, food, grow up, guidance, guide, holiday, hope, ingenuity, instruction, invention, life skills, mistake, mom, problem, Proverbs, think, wisdom, wise
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Turn-Around Tuesday – Who Are You Connected To?
“So the enemy took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way. They also took Lot, the son of Abram’s brother, who was dwelling in Sodom, and his possessions, and went their way.” … Continue reading
Posted in 2 - Turn-Around Tuesdays (trials and troubles), Suffering
Tagged alone, calmity, captive, care, catastrophe, connection, dark, endear, enemy, escape, friend, friendship, Impossible, intercession, life, lives, love, pain, powerful, pray, problem, problems, rescue, stole, suffering, trouble
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Turn-Around Tuesday – God Knows His Plans For Us!
“So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from … Continue reading
Posted in 2 - Turn-Around Tuesdays (trials and troubles), Suffering
Tagged ability, abundant, action, affiliation, ask, babel, conclusion, confused, connection, evil, future, God, heart, help, hope, imagine, intevention, judgment, Lord, lose, motivation, on track, plan, power, prosper, relationship, resource, significance, struggling, supernatural, think, thrive, welfare
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Turn-Around Tuesday – When God Releases Us!
“Then God said to Noah, “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you … So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with … Continue reading
Posted in 2 - Turn-Around Tuesdays (trials and troubles), Suffering
Tagged adrenaline, Ark, choice, choose, choosing, confinement, connection, daughter, emotion, enemies, expectancy, experience, faith, free, God, growth, life, Noah, plan, produce, release, Son, Trust, wife
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Magnificent Marriage Monday – Your Wife, Your Life!
“The man named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.” (Genesis 3:20, CSB) The man named his wife Eve. Eve means, “life” or “making alive.” What an incredible observation from Adam. She is … Continue reading
Posted in Magnificent Marriage Mondays, Marriage
Tagged Adam, ancestor, blessed, children, companionship, completion, connection, connections, creativity, design, emotion, eve, father, friend, fulfillment, Gift, God, Godhead, gratitude, heartbeat, holiness, Holy Spirit, honor, hope, humanity, husband, interactions, joy, life, living, marriage, married, marry, mother, pledge, prayer, prent, protection, purpose, relational, relationship, sibling, Son, strength, understanding, union, wife, wisdom, wives, womb
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Salvation Is About Relationship
Photo Credit: http://servingjoy.com Remember, salvation is not about a transaction as much as it’s about relationship. For example, if we think we are happily married because we went through the ceremony, and that things should always be wondeful because we … Continue reading
Posted in Discipleship, Love of God
Tagged 100 Largest Churches, agenda, Bible, Bible Reading Schedule, ceremony, choice, Christ, church, communication, confidence, connection, consistenly, eternal life, experience, faith, Garden of Gethsemane, God, Jesus, lead guide, life, lifestyle, marriage, married, Messiah, partnership, plenty, pray, priority, relationship, salvation, shepherd, Trust
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Transformed Episode #173 – Love Helps Our Community Sacrificially!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. True love is always manifested in the proportion one gives to another. Sacrifice and love are synonyms. Looking into a very familiar story of Jesus, Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, lead Pastor at Pacific Baptist Church … Continue reading
Posted in Love of God, Transformed
Tagged cares, compassion, connection, contribution, empathy, inconvenience, levite, love, love your neighbor, outreach, Outreach Magazine, Samaritan, selfishness, wounded people
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Ministry is About Shepherding!
Mary Kay is purported to have said, “There is an invisible sign hanging around every person’s neck and it says, ‘Encourage Me!’” Over the years I have discovered that the people who speak encouragement into my life and seek me … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Multi-ethnic / Urban
Tagged accept, affection, care, connection, contact, encourage, encouragement, friend, friends, Mary Kay, ministry, respond, shepherd, shepherding, transformation
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