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These books will help guide your daily Bible reading with insights into each passage you read. This series is a practical, passionate, Biblical mentoring journey for individuals, small groups, leadership teams and congregations who desire to win their world for Christ.

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Hope For Today – Forgiving Iniquity, Rebellion, and Sin!
Messing up. Ugh! We’ve all done it and, to be honest, sometimes the biggest problem is just being discovered. Don’t misunderstand me. The worst thing is failing. But the problem is, when we have to tell someone what we did, … Continue reading
Hope For Today – Being Slow to Anger!
Anger. Just a word evokes a multitude of different emotions in different people. If one of the first people we think of when we hear the word anger is our father, we can be sure that our lives have been … Continue reading
Posted in Hope For Today, Transformed
Tagged accountaibility, anger, arsenic, child abuser, compassion, danger, destroy, drinking, emotions, explode, father, Generation, God, grace, hope, inexorably, Jesus, lead, murderer, painfully, people, poison, relationship, scarred, selfishness, slowly, soul, temper, toxic, toxic waste
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Magnificent Marriage Monday – Take Seriously What God Takes Seriously!
“And he said to Sarah, “Look, I am giving your brother one thousand pieces of silver. It is a verification of your honor to all who are with you. You are fully vindicated.” Then Abraham prayed to God, and God … Continue reading
Posted in Magnificent Marriage Mondays, Marriage
Tagged acting, adultery, Almighty, children, consequencs, decision, destruction, disaster, foolish, generous, God, God's Word, husband, infertility, intervening, judgment, love, marriage, offering, promoting, sanctity, stupifity, thwarting, unfailing, wife, womb, Word of God
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Magnificent Marriage Monday – Valuing Our Wives As God’s Gift To Us!
“Abraham replied, “I thought, ‘There is absolutely no fear of God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’ Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, … Continue reading
Posted in Magnificent Marriage Mondays, Marriage
Tagged adultery, brother, choice, Christ, church, compassion, conscience, decision, design, discernment, faith, fear, give, God, husband, insight, intelligence, intervention, lifetime, love, loyalty, marriage, shrewdness, sister, supernatural, treasure, unthinkable, Value, violated, wife, wisdom, worth
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Hope For Today – Loving Each Other!
You may have witnessed it this past Mother’s Day. Missing chairs where there should have been family members. Most of us have experienced the pain of broken relationships in our families … someone’s mad at sister Emily. That one isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Hope For Today, Transformed
Tagged biological, broken, challenge, command, commandment, committed, compassion, contempt, crazy, desire, drink, duty, estranged, family, follower, generous, God, gossip, grumpy, hatred, immoral, interact, jerk, Jesus, love, loving, mad, messed up, mothers day, nasty, one another, option, pain, philanderer, purpose, reality, reason, relationships, sacrificial, situaton, suggestion, true, unlovable
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Magnificent Marriage Monday – Treating Our Spouse With Respect!
“Early in the morning Abimelech got up, called all his servants together, and personally told them all these things, and the men were terrified. Then Abimelech called Abraham in and said to him, “What have you done to us? How … Continue reading
Posted in Magnificent Marriage Mondays, Marriage
Tagged abundant, account, accusation, action, adultery, Almighty, cnsequence, communication, companionship, confront, consequence, couple, damage, defend, design, emotion, existence, friendship, God, Godhead, husband, idea, indignation, innocent, isolation, judgment, life, Lord, marriage, mistreat, motive, partnership, purity, recrimination, respect, revere, righteous, spouse, terror, threatening, thrive, Unity, violate, violation, vows, wife
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Magnificent Marriage Monday – My Marriage Is Protected By God!
“But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.” Then God said to him in the dream, … Continue reading
Faith Filled Friday – Blessed Because Of Another
“From there he went up to Beersheba. And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your … Continue reading
Posted in faith, Faith-Filled Fridays
Tagged blessing, faith, faithfulness, favor, favor of God, God, life, mystery, obedience, ponder, presence of God, surrender, The struggle is real, urban, wealth, wife
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Train Them Thursday – Faith’s Beginning – Repentance!
“John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by … Continue reading
Posted in Discipleship, Train Them Thursdays (discipleship)
Tagged abundant life, baptism, body, change, control, discipleship, evidence, faith, God, idols, life, mind, mistake, monster, path of life, preach, pride, process, repent, repentance, resistance, serve, spirit, struggle, subconscious, supernaturalpower, transform, transformative, truth, tsoul, turn around, way of life, wrong
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Willing Worker Wednesday – This Is Who You Are!
“Now the people were waiting expectantly, and all of them were debating in their minds whether John might be the Messiah. John answered them all, “I baptize you with water, but One is coming who is more powerful than I. … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Willing Worker Wednesdays
Tagged abuse, allegiance, attitude, cancer, Christ, gave, give, God, hate, heart, Holy Spirit, honest, imitate, Jesus, John the Baptist, King, Leadership, lifestyle, Lord, love, offering, sacrifice, sacrificial, self, selfish, selfishness, servanthood, surrender, will, worthy
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