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Rest and Labor

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Your Best Job

    What’s your dream job?   Earning the big bucks Doing what I’m good at Making the world a better place All I want is a steady paycheck Maybe your best job isn’t really about you. Psalm 127:1 (NIV) … Continue reading

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Safe Income

  There’s nothing like the shelter of a steady paycheck. Lots of people have the ability, perseverance and good ideas to successfully run their own businesses. What they lack is start-up money.   There are places in the world where … Continue reading

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A Simple Fall

  Proverbs 16:18 (MSG) First pride, then the crash— the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.   Be humble and land gently.

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Credit Where It’s Due

I don’t remember who said this, but the message stays with me:  We humans often take credit for God’s work.  We think, “Praise us from whom all blessings flow.”   Been there, done that. I was wrong, Lord.  The credit … Continue reading

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Uplifted

Ever been knocked down, then kicked? Pushed over and stepped on? If you find yourself in a pit–due to your own poor choice or someone else’s deliberate action–you can look to God for a hand up.   Psalm 40:2 (NIV) … Continue reading

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Celebrate Disaster?

Proverbs 24:17-18 (ESV) Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the Lord see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.   Matthew 5:44-45 I say … Continue reading

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Because It’s Not Nice

    Are you guilty of these not-nice actions?   I gloat at others’ troubles I kick ‘em when they’re down I grab all the credit I lord it over others The prophet Ezekiel prophesied disaster for nations doing these … Continue reading

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Sheltered Advisors

  Joseph and Daniel are Old Testament examples of godly advisors to heads of state. Surely there are many men and women of God behind the scenes in national, state and local government.    Capitol Ministries is one organization working … Continue reading

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Shoot Off a Prayer

I can send a prayer anywhere–   1 Timothy 2:1  (MSG) Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.     I can send my prayers off to the White House, into the secret corners of North Korea, … Continue reading

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