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Acts 11:18 When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, “So then, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance that leads to life.” Peter had entered the house of Gentiles, an act punishable by excommunication from the Jewish religion. But he explained the steps...

Well I don't really like the word "creative" because it sounds elite and those who are gifted in Christ need to serve and in a real sense, all believers are "creatives", but the idea is to encourage the development of those gifts though sharing, receiving and giving constructive critiques and...

Psalm 73:13-17 I concluded, “Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle. I suffer all day long, and am punished every morning.” If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your loyal followers. When I tried to make sense of this, it was troubling...

This is a devotional in the SOAP format (scripture, observation, application and prayer) per Wayne Cordeiro's Life Journal format. See New Hope Christian Fellowship Oahu for a daily scripture for journaling. Scripture: Ps 137:1-3 By the rivers of Babylon we sit down and weep when we...

Proverb 17:28 Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue. I once heard a corollary to this proverb stated in a funny, negative way: “Be quiet and let them wonder if you’re clueless rather than opening your mouth and removing all doubt” I have a...

... a dear friend, a minister at our church. In his early 50s - has a devastating family history of early death due to heart disease. He is in the hospital, undergoing tests. He has an abnormal EKG and possible kidney failure. Please pray for his healing and peace and faith for his entire...

We pay our kids' college expenses, just something we do. Now, we found out fairly late in this last semester that our son had sloughed off and not done the work for a course in college to the point of flunking the class. Apparently, he spent LOTS of time playing video games instead. If this...

Violence sells, just look at the amount of attention given to the Virginia Tech massacre Monday. We know more about Mr. Cho than we know about most people in our daily lives. Over 250 people were killed in Iraq today, and the daily toll there is well over the 33 killed at Virginia Tech. So ...

Father, for all whose lives were senselessly taken in the rampage on Monday, I pray for deep comfort and peace. Wherever there is still fear and leftover trauma, I pray You would send assurance of Your protecting hand. For the family of Cho Seung-Hui I pray reconciliation and grace. Be with all...

Ps 56:3 When I am afraid, I will trust in you. Bible verses don't get more simple than that. But when we realize how often we fear and how many things we're afraid of, applying this verse is as hard as repenting from addictive sin. At work I might get frustrated over a delay and go into a...

From his book Waking the Dead Go to the bottom of this page: http://www.suffering.net/eldrid2.htm Per John, in the book, not to be prayed as a set of words but as a pattern. I have already seen great victory through this composite of healing and spiritual warfare. Enjoy, be blessed...

Hi, Does anyone know where one could find a blog-style Life Journal web site? Hard copy writing and reading is old school, plus you can't share very well. Now someone will probably tell me there's such a thing on Christian Forums. I'm so well informed it's just amazing. :P Thanks!!

What they've done and keep doing make us mad, and it should. And .. this does not mean justice won't be served. It's just that JESUS is the only way to heaven and only HE can touch the hardest of hearts. Father, I lift these men up before you as I lift up their followers. May you miraculously...

Ps 63:1 O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. There are places of wilderness we walk through. They can be circumstances, relationships or just prolonged seasons of barrenness in life. To...

Prov 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. and Prov 13:19 A longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil. We need to know that our longings (hopes, dreams) are not necessarily fantasies. We can at any time erect...

1 Cor 1:17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel — not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power . I had an experience with my PC last week that was kind of scary. When I tried to turn it on, the power light turned amber and started...

John 4:23-24 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." Jesus is speaking to the woman at the well in...

I'm a senior person at my job. I know the ropes and part of my job is to help others learn the job too. It's engineering so it's complicated, detailed work. There's a person, I won't give the gender so people don't take sides based upon that, but he/she has been given a job to do that should...

The book of Job tells the story of a righteous man whose devotional life humbles most of ours in comparison. In a rare glimpse of the courts of heaven, we're given a picture of the adversary, Satan himself, who accuses Job to God as only serving God because of the blessings in his life. Satan...

1 Cor 2:14 The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit...