Month: June 2024

Anxious Thoughts

Posted: June 27, 2024

As Jesus was discussing fears, worries, and anxious thoughts, he said this to his disciples: “Do not be anxious about your life.”1 Then he highlighted a specific situation regarding worrying over food and clothing, using flowers and birds (who do not worry, yet God takes care of them) as a good example. But .

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Vain Things

By Deborah Belew McDermet

Posted: June 20, 2024

“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”1 It sounds more demanding written in the King James Version, doesn’t it? But what does it mean, this third commandment that we have conveniently overlooked and almost completely eliminated from our minds? The first response would probably be not to use God’s

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Tolerance

By Deborah Belew McDermet

Posted: June 13, 2024

Before there were kings that ruled nations, there were judges. The judges’ job was to instruct and encourage the Israelites to serve God as their king, but some judges were not very good at their job. Over and over we read “the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the

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Lifeboats

By Deborah Belew McDermet

Posted: June 6, 2024

If God is sovereign, why do people suffer? If God is good, why are there storms? Luke tells a great story that answers those questions. It’s his story—one that he experienced when he was accompanying Paul, who was a prisoner on his way to Rome. They were on board a ship sailing on

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