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Loaned money

Have you ever loaned money to friends or relatives? Or have either friends or relatives asked you to loan them money? Or perhaps you were the one asking for the loan.  If you loaned them money or borrowed money from…

Heaven Is a Literal Place

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014 Don’t let this throw you. You trust God, don’t you? Trust me. There is plenty of room for you in my Father’s home. If that weren’t so, would I have told you that I’m on my…

Permeated

TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2014 God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind…

Our Present Possession

MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2014 God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the…

Promises, Not Explanations

FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2014 Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely,…

Life in Two Dimensions

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 He raised us from the dead along with Christ, and seated us with him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus.— Ephesians 2:6 A Christian is someone who lives in two dimensions. The…

There Is More

MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2014 To me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.— Philippians 1:21 The apostle Paul wrote those words from a dungeon in Rome, facing imminent execution, and Christians through the centuries have repeated them. But not…

August 16, 2014 Bible Verse

“Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.” – 2 Corinthians 7:1 NIV