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Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Sanctification” Our Bible verse for today: “There is profit in all hard work, but endless talk leads only to poverty.” Proverbs 14:23 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Just get started” In yesterday’s devotional I encouraged us to not settle for “good-enough,” and I referred to the classic leadership book “Good toContinue reading “Just get started”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Sanctification” Our Bible verse for today: “For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure,Continue reading “Don’t settle for “good-enough””

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Sanctification” Our Bible verse for today: “Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” 2 Corinthians 4:16 (NIV) Our thought for today: “Live until you die” So, I have some “old man issues” going on. Nothing serious. They’re all minor. But I had twoContinue reading “Live until you die”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Sanctification” Our Bible verse for today: “He comforts us in our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”  2 Corinthians 1:4-6 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Give them some of your strength” ThroughoutContinue reading “Give them some of your strength”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Sanctification” Our Bible verse for today: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 (CSB) Our thought for today: “A new, improved, and better you” 2 Corinthians 5:17 is one of the classic go-toContinue reading “A new, improved, and better you”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Sanctification” Our Bible verse for today: “But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:13-14 (CSB) Our thought for today: “What’s holding you back?” If my illustrationContinue reading “What’s holding you back?”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Sanctification” Our Bible verse for today: “For I am being poured out as a drink offering, and the time for my departure is close. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:6-7 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Don’t wasteContinue reading “Don’t waste any of the years of your life”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Sanctification” Our Bible verse for today: “The Lord our God has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them; but we and our children are accountable forever for all that he has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions.”Continue reading “We are responsible for knowing what God has revealed”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Sanctification” Our Bible verse for today: “We all, with unveiled faces, are looking in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is Spirit.” 2 Corinthians 3:18 (CSB) Our thought for today:Continue reading “A little less like me; a little more like Jesus”

Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Sanctification” Our Bible verse for today: “Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love.” 2 John 3 (NIV) Our thought for today: “Knowing about God is not the same as knowing God” I once knew aContinue reading “Knowing about God is not the same as knowing God”