What You Should Know About Tolerance and Teaching

We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification. For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell [...]

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My Weaker Brother

Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things. For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who [...]

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What Time Is It?

Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. Romans 13:10
Wake Up!
And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. Romans 13:11
Dress Up!
The night is far spent, [...]

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Do YOU Know What It’s There For?

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and [...]

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Today’s Compassion Child is Swahiba Malamla Ally

Swahiba is 11 years old and she was born on January 14, 1998. Swahiba lives in Tanzania with her mom and dad and one sibling. In her home she helps by fetching the daily water, sewing, and buying and selling in the market place. Mom and dad are sometimes employed as farm laborers.
Swahiba enjoys singing, [...]

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Goodness, Glory, and Getting Along With Other Christians

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Romans 8:28-29
We Know
Reflect upon what [...]

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All Groan Up

For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children [...]

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The Best Antidote for Depression

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:1
It’s easier said than done to qualify one book of the Bible as better or more impacting over another (and I won’t here), but be that as it [...]

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One Step to a Healthy Life

O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God–through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7:24-25a
Spiritual healing comes through Christ alone and cannot be obtained through any fleshly endeavor. Scores understand the principle, but too often we return to carnality (solutions of the flesh), forgetting that the [...]

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Lieutenant Dan, What Are You Doing Here?

Lieutenant Dan, What Are You Doing Here?
…Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Romans 6:6-7
Forrest Gump: “Lieutenant Dan, what are you doing [...]

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