July 9th 2010
Proverbs 17:17 “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
This verse is the oddest verse in Proverbs 17. It just doesn’t seem to fit the rest of the context. Before and after this statement are verses describing a fool in their lifestyle, character, and dealings with money and other people.
This verse is…
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July 7th 2010
This past weekend, July 4th fell on a Sunday. Our church, Fellowship Church, holds an outdoor service the first Sunday of July for the past 7 years. So last November, we put on the calendar to have a Family Experience as our outdoor service. Our Family Experience is a time where the kids and the adults get…
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June 29th 2010
I find it absolutely amazing if people say that the bible is an outdated book that does not have relevance to today’s world. If you have brothers and/or sisters, you’ve experienced some form of jealousy and feeling ripped off of what is “mine.”
Oldest children get this when a new baby sister or brother is born. This might happen at…
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June 18th 2010
I have a twin brother. When we were little, I remember my mom telling us that she loved us both equally. We would draw something and ask her “whose is better” and she of course would say “I love them both as much.” One day I wrote something both with my right hand and my left hand and asked…
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June 16th 2010
Again, my mind goes crazy from reading these stories in the Old Testament. I kinda laugh out loud a lot. Jacob in Genesis is just a riot to read about. His mother loved him more than his older twin, Esau, and devised a plan with Jacob at his father’s death bed to dress up and pretend that Jacob was…
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