Author Archives: Shirlee Abbott

Simple Wisdom

Psalm 19:7 (ESV) The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.   It’s simple. More time spent reading the Bible = more wisdom.

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Boasting in Christ

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Good Reason for Boasting

Jeremiah 9:24 (ESV) Let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.   Boast … Continue reading

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No Reason for Boasting

  1 Corinthians 4:7 (NLT) What do you have that God hasn’t given you? And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift?   All that we have, all that we are … Continue reading

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Boasting and Flattery

Jude offers quite a description of evildoers.  Jude 16 (NIV) These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.   Self-serving boasting and flattery . . . never good.

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Watch Out for Boasting

2 Timothy 3:1-2, 5 (TLB) In the last days . . . people will love only themselves and their money; they will be proud and boastful, sneering at God, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful to them, and thoroughly bad . . … Continue reading

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Simply Rest

Mark 2:27 (MEV) Then He [Jesus] said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.”   “The sabbath was made for man – For his rest from toil, his rest from the cares and … Continue reading

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Room on Your To-Do List

Do you schedule yourself to the edges of your time? Or do you leave space for interruptions? Jesus welcomed interruptions. Even when he was already busy. Take Luke 8, for example.   Luke 8:41-44 (TLB) And now a man named … Continue reading

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Room in Your Bank Account

Financial advice from God’s Word: Leviticus 23:22 (NIRV) Suppose you are gathering your crops. Then do not harvest all the way to the edges of your field. And do not pick up the grain you missed. Leave some for the … Continue reading

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No Room

We all know a few folks who want nothing to do with Jesus. They have no room in their hearts for anything Christian. Despite their best efforts, they may get an occasional whiff of God. 2 Corinthians 2:15 (TLB) As … Continue reading

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