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Good Luck Charms: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 4:1-11)

As a baseball fan I am tantalized by the superstitions many players have about how to insure victory or a continuation of good playing. If they were wearing certain socks when they got a homerun, they

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How Can We Hear the Voice of God?: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 3)

There is a disturbing sentiment in much of evangelical Christianity that God does not speak to us personally but that we should expect His voice to be heard only in Scripture, because in Scripture is all

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Sit Up and Take Notice: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 12:41-44)

What gets your attention?  Nightly news knows that our attention is drawn to the difficult and scary things going on in our world, as well as the heartwarming things.  Maybe as glass-half-full kind of

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Crumby Faith: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 7:24-30)

Does it sometimes feel like the only way to get your requests of God answered is to have someone really spiritual pray them for you, or say the requests the right way, or be holy enough to deserve an answer? 

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Family Is Everything: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 3:31-35)

Family is everything.  We hear that all the time.  But what if your family doesn’t believe what you believe about the biggest issues of life?  What if your family is actually against you?  What

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: His Purpose to Bring Good (Zechariah 8:1-17)

And the word of the LORD of hosts came, saying, “Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath. Thus says the LORD: I have returned

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Dwelling in Our Midst (Zechariah 2)

And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand! Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what

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Daily Thoughts from Philippians (20): Protection From Worry and Disunity – Philippians 4:4-7

The Power of Joy: How the Deliberate Pursuit of Pleasure Can Heal Your Life, by Christiane Northrup, claims that “When you move toward that which is most fulfilling and life-enhancing—with joy

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Daily Thoughts from Acts: Guidance on the Path (Acts 18:1-11)

After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave

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Daily Thoughts from Romans: Oh the Deep, Deep Love (8:31-39)

Daily Thoughts from Romans: Oh the Deep, Deep Love What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will

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Daily Thoughts from Romans: Adopted! (8:9-17)

Daily Thoughts from Romans: Adopted! You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

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Daily Thoughts from Micah: Real Repentance (6:1-8)

Daily Thoughts from Micah: Real Repentance 1 Hear what the Lord says:  Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.  2 Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the Lord,

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Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Answered Prayer (5:13-15)

Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Answered Prayer I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence that we have toward

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Learning God (15:32-41)

While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation.

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Daily Thoughts from Numbers: Unintentional and High Handed Sin (15:22-31)

“But if you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses, all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment,

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