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I really like these verses that are presented on the "Our Daily Journey" blog, which can be found here.

In Proverbs we find some instruction can make us spiritually healthy (Proverbs 4:23):

Keep your mouth right (…

When was the last time you jumped for joy?

A key biblical principle or Spiritual Exercise is ‘Being Thankful to God’. His Word tells us that we’re to express our thanks for what He’s done in our life and for who He is.

“Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.” Psalm 107:1

The more we’ve experienced the love of God and understand who He…

“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do,” Paul wrote.  Have you ever considered what sin(s) Paul battled?  I mean, let’s be honest—it is difficult to think of him struggling with temptation and sin, isn’t it?  After all,

Paul was arguably the second best teacher that ever walked this earth,

         the first and most influential missionary,

            taking the Gospel from Jerusalem into Europe and…

Sound Preaching

1 Corinthians 2 (King James Version)

 ¹And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

 ²For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

 ³And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

 ⁴And my speech and…

“God’s great love and purposes for us are worked out in the messes, storms and sins, blue skies, daily work, and dreams of our common lives, working with us as we are and not as we should be.”2

And yet…he doesn’t want us to be dragged down by sin…Paul finishes out Romans chapter 6--

(You are dead to sin, and alive to God) That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don't give it the time of…

                                                            Stephen Simmons 2-24,2011

Anberlin - The Unwinding Cable Car -( the first song…

If you were to write a ‘Statement of Purpose’ for your life, what would it look like? Or put another way, ‘What’s your story?’  It would follow that how you choose to order your life would flow from that.

I’ve been thinking about that . . . I believe my life is a gift from God, (especially since my mother had previously had her ‘tubes tied’ and was 45 years old when she had me!)  Life is a gift from God, and what I do with it, is what I give to God.  Oh, I often fall short, but he…

Thanksgiving

(1 Corinthians 1:1-9)

 ¹Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

 ²Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's:

 ³Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our…

As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend..



I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.

Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM or sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 &70's and while Praising my Lord, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ..…

Romans 15: 1-13 (King James Version)

 ¹We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

 ²Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

 ³For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

 ⁴For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our…

How Great Great is God?…

Let’s be honest—there is a lot of confusion about miracles … we’ve heard

~about television preachers rigging their healing services with ‘plants’, about

~big-tent meetings where people are getting healed on a nightly basis, and of

~long-held sacred beliefs on the healing powers at Fatima, Portugal1,  and then

~some of our denominations do not believe in healing prayer for the miraculous..

~or they do, but don’t talk about it much—certainly don’t…

But God being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which He loved us,even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive togather with christ [by graceyou have been saved] and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenlys places in Christ Jesus so that the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.for by grace you havebeen saved  through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of god not a…

Recently, we have had discussions on the Forum here at AAG.net about whether or not a person is saved eternally by Christ or whether a person can lose (and possibly regain) that salvation. Usually, this question is derived from a misquoting or misappropriation of some verses out of context, where it becomes unclear if God has truly saved us in Christ, or merely set us up for a…

"Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in Me." (John 16:7-8)

It…