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Hope For Today – Being Slow to Anger!
Anger. Just a word evokes a multitude of different emotions in different people. If one of the first people we think of when we hear the word anger is our father, we can be sure that our lives have been … Continue reading
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Tagged accountaibility, anger, arsenic, child abuser, compassion, danger, destroy, drinking, emotions, explode, father, Generation, God, grace, hope, inexorably, Jesus, lead, murderer, painfully, people, poison, relationship, scarred, selfishness, slowly, soul, temper, toxic, toxic waste
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Hope For Today – Being Compassionate and Gracious!
What is the first thing you remember about your dad? Is it his laugh, his smile, his anger, his grumpiness? First remembrances are often the most powerful ones … and they have the tendency to shape our life memories. I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, boy, broken, character, child, children, compassion, compassionate, description, fail, failing, family, father, fatherless, Gid, godly, grace, gracious, grumpy, heart, hope, Jesus, laugh, life, love, lust, man, memories, model, sigle mother, soul, ungoldiness, woman, worldly, young
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Hope For Today – Loving Each Other!
You may have witnessed it this past Mother’s Day. Missing chairs where there should have been family members. Most of us have experienced the pain of broken relationships in our families … someone’s mad at sister Emily. That one isn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged biological, broken, challenge, command, commandment, committed, compassion, contempt, crazy, desire, drink, duty, estranged, family, follower, generous, God, gossip, grumpy, hatred, immoral, interact, jerk, Jesus, love, loving, mad, messed up, mothers day, nasty, one another, option, pain, philanderer, purpose, reality, reason, relationships, sacrificial, situaton, suggestion, true, unlovable
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Willing Worker Wednesday – This Is Who You Are!
“Now the people were waiting expectantly, and all of them were debating in their minds whether John might be the Messiah. John answered them all, “I baptize you with water, but One is coming who is more powerful than I. … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, allegiance, attitude, cancer, Christ, gave, give, God, hate, heart, Holy Spirit, honest, imitate, Jesus, John the Baptist, King, Leadership, lifestyle, Lord, love, offering, sacrifice, sacrificial, self, selfish, selfishness, servanthood, surrender, will, worthy
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Train Them Thursday – How Growth Happens!
“And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and He continued in subjection to them; and His mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God … Continue reading
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Hope For Today – Behind the Scenes!
Only hours away from being reunited, Jesus’ call to His Father gives us insight into the heart of our salvation this Easter. I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope For Today about what happened Behind … Continue reading
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Tagged authority, broken, communication, compassion, crucified, Easter, eternal life, experience, father, follower, glorify, heaven, hope, Jesus, love, obedience, Passion, payer, pleasure, relationship, salvation, Son, Son of God, suffer
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Hope For Today – Jesus Is “The” Way to Heaven!
It’s Palm Sunday! Today we remember the day when Jesus was the hero of Jerusalem. People lined the stone streets in the City of Heaven and cheered their New King, their Rescuer, their long awaited Messiah. And then, Jesus announced … Continue reading
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Tagged disciple, eternal life, friend, God, God the Father, heaven, Jerusalem, Jesus, King, Leadership, love, Messiah, Palm Sunday, rescuer, testify
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Hope For Today – Keeping Your Life for Eternity
Are you about ready for Easter? It seems almost impossible that the year is slipping away so fast, doesn’t it? Pretty soon it will be the 4thof July, we’ll be enjoying cookouts and celebrating with family and friends again! Time … Continue reading
Train Them Thursday – Naturally Curious
“When they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem looking for Him. Then, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. And all … Continue reading
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Tagged curious, disciple, discipler, discipleship, eternal life, faith, God, God's Word, grow, growing, growth, Holy Spirit, imitate, Jesus, life, questions, salvation, Spirit of God, Study, submission, Teachers, temple, training, Word of God
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