Category Archives: Constructive Thought

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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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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Room for You

John 14:1-3 (NLT) Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home . . .  When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be … Continue reading

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Room for Jesus

We’re coming off the Christmas season, where there was “no room” for Jesus (Luke 2:7). The last book of the Bible gives us a different view: Revelation 3:20 (CEV) Listen! I am standing and knocking at your door. If you … Continue reading

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Joy and Praise

We will sing alongside the stars and angels. I can only imagine.

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Everlasting Joy

  Isaiah 35:10 (ESV) And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads.   Sometimes we get so comfortable is this world, we forget about the joy to come. … Continue reading

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