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Author Archives: Dr. Matthew Lee Smith
Turn-Around Tuesday – Venting Our Vehemence
“And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between … Continue reading
Posted in 2 - Turn-Around Tuesdays (trials and troubles), Suffering
Tagged Abraham, action, anger, beautiful, bitterness, blame, broken, bumble humbling, cancer, Confession, control, damage, decision, die, distrust, doubt, erase, ess, faith, faithless, foolishness, forgive, God, guilt, heart, husband, impatience, Jesus, Lord, mistake, problem, remorse, repent, repentance, shame, sitaution, soul, stupid, Throne of God, throw up, trial, trouble, vent, wrong
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Magnificent Marriage Monday – Escaping Desire’s Gravitational Pull!
“At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.” But he hesitated. Because of the Lord’s compassion for … Continue reading
Posted in Magnificent Marriage Mondays, Marriage
Tagged abundance, child, community, compassion, daughter, death, decision, decisive, desire, destruction, doubt, fertility, God, heart, Holy Spiirt, house, husband, kids, life, luxuries, luxury, marriage, moral, morally, pleasure, pressure, pressures of life, seduction, sensuality, sin, sinful, Sodom, spouse, wife, Word of God, world
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Hope For Today – I Give Them Eternal Life
It’s a time to celebrate the great love of God as witnessed by the giving heart of His Son, Jesus! I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope For Today about how I Give Them Eternal … Continue reading
Posted in Hope For Today, Transformed
Tagged acceptance, assumption, broken, celebrate, compassion, Easter, eternal life, faith, family, friends, gentle, Gift, God, heal, heart, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jewish, leader, logic, love, poor, sinful, Son, Son of God, tender, tenderness, Trust, worship
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Train Them Thursday – Discipling Our Children
“And when He became twelve, they went up there according to the custom of the Feast; and as they were returning, after spending the full number of days, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. But His parents were unaware … Continue reading
Posted in Discipleship, Train Them Thursdays (discipleship)
Tagged Almighty, babysit, character, child, children, disciple, discipleship, faith, father, follower, God, grace, grow, heart, Jerusalem, King, life, loyalty, maturity, Nazareth, obey, passover, path, path of life, respectful, responsibility, responsible, teenager, trade, training, wisdom
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Willing Worker Wednesday – Leave It Alone! It’s Not Yours!
“Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they asked him, “Teacher, what should we do?” He told them, “Don’t collect any more than what you have been authorized.”” (Luke 3:12–13, HCSB) Don’t collect any more than what you have … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Willing Worker Wednesdays
Tagged abundance, administration, belief, believe, business, busy, color of authority, crave, craving, forsake, government, greed, heart, IRS, King, leader, Leadership, leave, more, occupation, provide, reality, reward, servant, sin, sinful, standard, surrender, tax, thought
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Hope For Today – Having Eternal Life!
While the world celebrates with a bunny, we know it’s all about the substitutionary Lamb of God who takes away our sin! I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope For Today about how Having Eternal … Continue reading
Posted in Hope For Today, Transformed
Tagged abuse, benefits, bunny, Christ, condemnation, create, created, Easter, eternal life, eternity, family, father, forgiveness, Gift, God, harp, heaven, home, Jesus, lamb of God, Lord, lost, love, persecute, promise, reject, sin, syrrender, truth, will
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Faith Filled Friday – Do Not Delay!
“And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said, “Send me away to my master.” Her brother and her mother said, “Let the … Continue reading
Posted in faith, Faith-Filled Fridays
Tagged Almighty, apprecoate, attitude, Bible, brother, business, choice, concept, delay, diligence, disobey, empathize, excuse, experience, faith, father, God, honor, laziness, life, Lord, Master, mission, mother, obey, personal, perspective, possess, postponement, praise, procrastination, procrastinator, prosper, prosperity, relationship, respond, response, rest, servant, success, to do, wife
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Train Them Thursday – Parenting Our Children
“Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when He became twelve, they went up there according to the custom of the Feast.” (Luke 2:41–42, NASB95) Now His parents went to Jerusalem every … Continue reading
Posted in Discipleship, Train Them Thursdays (discipleship)
Tagged Christ, conversation, cross, dedication, disciple, discipleship, faith, Generation, generations, grace, heart, Jerusalem, life, lifestyle, lives, Lord, maturity, mind, Nazareth, newborn, parening, Passion, passionate, ridicule, sacrifice, songs of ascents, soul, spiritual, spiritually, supernatural, The Twelve
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