I Need Help

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Shirlee Abbott

I’m looking for a reading specialist with ESL experience to collaborate on adult Bible studies. If you’re interested, send me a message via my contact page.

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Unity: Pray Early, Pray Often

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Shirlee Abbott

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Unity for a Worthy Cause

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Shirlee Abbott

Jesus prayed for our unity:

John 17:20-21 (NIV)
I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one,Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

 

We should also pray for unity. It’s for a worthy cause (“so that the world may believe“).

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Simple Unity

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Shirlee Abbott

Pray for unity:

— in Christ
— with Christ
— through Christ

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Constructive Unity

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Shirlee Abbott

 

The theme for our National Day of Prayer is UNITY. What do you think? Where’s unity needed most?

 

 

  • In my family
  • In my church
  • In my community
  • All of the above

 

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Shelter with Room to Grow

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Shirlee Abbott

 

The 2004 tsunami killed 35,000 people in the island nation of Sri Lanka. A 26-year civil war killed twice that and displaced almost 300,000 people. Habitat for Humanity has helped over 23,000 low-income families build safe shelters.

A typical Habitat Sri Lanka home is 350 square feet, with a larger foundation. When they can afford it, the homeowners expand their space.

Built with room to grow–what a great idea, Lord. We thank you for the present safe shelter for these Sri Lankan families, and for hope built into the bigger foundation. And, Lord God, help us all to grow into the foundations you’ve prepared for us.

 

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Wholly Healthy

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Shirlee Abbott

 

“It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.”
Saint Ignatius, 1491-1556

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Sick of My [Spiritual] Self

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Shirlee Abbott

Romans 7:15 (NIV)
For what I want to do I do not do,
but what I hate I do.

 

Count me in with Paul, Lord. I’m auto-immune–that is, my soul works against itself. I want to be all-in for you, God. Really. Show me how.

 

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Simply Do It

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Shirlee Abbott

Get some spiritual exercise. read your Bible and pray. Then you too can say

 

2 Timothy 4:7 (NIV)
I have fought the good fight,
I have finished the race,
I have kept the faith.

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Don’t Be a [Spiritual] Couch Potato

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Shirlee Abbott

 

Psalm 1:1 (NASB)
How blessed is the man who does not 
walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers.

Are you a spiritual couch potato, cozy with the complainers, slouching with the sarcastic, mingling with the mean?

Here’s the antidote:

Psalm 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the Lord.

Get off the couch, get some exercise. Open that Bible!

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