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Train Them Thursday – Faith’s Beginning – Repentance!
“John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by … Continue reading
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Willing Worker Wednesday – Mid-Course Corrections!
“Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. But John tried to stop Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and yet You come to me?” Jesus answered him, “Allow it … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Willing Worker Wednesdays
Tagged destination, educationally, emotionally, evaluate, exit, family, financially, judge, judgment, leader, love, midcourse correction, mind, moral, path, physically, pleasure, purpose, reality, right, righteous, servant, socially, trajectory, Value, work
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Hope For Today – So I Send You!
With Easter over and the celebrating finished, the question in our hearts and minds should be, “So what do we do NOW? I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope For Today about the purpose of … Continue reading
Posted in Hope For Today, Transformed
Tagged ability, afraid, confort, death, disciple, Easter, father, follow, forgive, forgiven, God, Good News, guide, heart, Holy Spirit, hope, Jewish, joy, jurisdiction, Lord, love, Messiah, mind, mission, Passion, peace, perspective, priorities, resurrect, resurrection, salvation, supernatural
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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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Magnificent Marriage Monday – Leveraging Our Platform!
“Then he said, “Since I have ventured to speak to my lord, suppose twenty are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it on account of twenty.” Then he said, “Let my lord not be angry, and I will … Continue reading
Posted in Magnificent Marriage Mondays, Marriage
Tagged cash, chaos, character, community, couple, fail, failure, faith, friend, friendship, generosity, God, goodness, grace, happinss, heart, holiness, holy, husband, influence, Jesus, joy, King, life, live, Lord, lot, man, marriage, mercy, mind, mission, mission statement, opportunity, partnership, peace, servant, serve, Sodom, surrender, tranquility, wife
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Turn-Around Tuesday – Impaired Faith-Vision
“And he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess … Continue reading
Posted in 2 - Turn-Around Tuesdays (trials and troubles), Suffering
Tagged Abraham, attack, breathe, difficulties, doubt, encourage, enormity, fail, faith, flesh, God, heart, humanity, impaired, life, mind, natural, plan, power, problems, progeny, promise, routine, spirit, struggle, think, trials, trouble, truth, Vision, walk, will
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Train Them Thursday – Following God’s Timing!
“But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said, “Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the … Continue reading
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Tagged abundant, angel, child, choice, confidence, disciple, discipleship, dream, Egypt, father, freedom, God, heart, home, indwelling, insider information, Israel, Joseph, life, Lord, Mary, mind, patient, peace, prompt, safety, security, Son, Trust, voice, whim, whim of God
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Turn-Around Tuesday – Fear Tears Away One’s Hope
“I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me. Let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share.” After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram … Continue reading
Posted in 2 - Turn-Around Tuesdays (trials and troubles), Suffering
Tagged Abraham, confidence, darkness, decision, Despair, disappointment, doubt, emotion, evil, fantasy, fear, future, generous, heart, hope, hopeless, imagination, imagine, immune, insidious, Jerusalem, life, lost, mind, monster, possibility, protection, reward, shield, shiledd, stalker, suffering, terror, troubles, true, victory, Vision
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Faith Filled Friday – When God Tests Us to Our Limit!
“After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there … Continue reading