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Category Archives: Dying To Self
Balls & Strikes
Baseball is my favorite sport, and it’s the last weekend of Major League Baseball’s regular season. All the playoff spots for the postseason haven’t been claimed yet, and that makes for a very exciting ending to the regular season. So, … Continue reading →
Posted in Bible Study, Choices, Current Events, Decisions, Discernment, Dying To Self, God's Omnipotence, God's Sovereignty, God's Will, God's Word, Personal, Prayer, Scripture, Sports, The Bible
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Tagged funny story about umpire, how to determine God's will, replacing umpires with computerized technology, strike zones on televised baseball games
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Followship
As Jesus passed on from there. He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him. (Matthew 9:9, N.K.J.V.) A little boy got mad at his … Continue reading →
Posted in Belief, Change, Commitment, Courage, Decisions, Dying To Self, Faith, God's Will, God's Work, Ministry, Obedience, Salvation, Service, Submission
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Tagged Follow Me, following Jesus, how to stay in fellowship with Jesus, Jesus changing Levi's name to Matthew, Matthew's calling
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Bringing Down Giant Walls & Giant Men
In a devotion entitled “Spiritual Battles,” Ed Young Sr. uses Israel’s defeat of the walled city of Jericho (Joshua 6:1-27) as an illustration of how we Christians must overcome our own strongholds if we want to enjoy all the blessings … Continue reading →
Posted in Addiction, Adversity, Dying To Self, Faith, God's Omnipotence, God's Sovereignty, God's Work, Obedience, Prayer Requests, Problems, Spiritual Warfare, Trials, Trusting In God
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Tagged bringing down the walls of your Jericho, David not wearing Saul's armor, defeating your Goliath, Ed Young Sr. devotion
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So-So
In Jones county, Mississippi, there is a little town called Soso. There are different stories regarding how the town got its name. One says that an early settler of the area used to always reply, “So-so” whenever someone asked him … Continue reading →
Posted in Backsliding, Christ's Death, Complaining, Discipleship, Doing Good, Dying To Self, Faithfulness, God's Holiness, God's Love, God's Mercy, God's Work, Grace, Ministry, Obedience, Perseverance, Priorities, Repentance, Sacrifice, Salvation, Sanctification, Service, Suffering, Thankfulness
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Tagged a so-so effort, Jesus paid it all all to Him I owe, Jones county Mississippi, Soso Mississippi, what our salvation cost Jesus
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Enduring Hardship
You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. (2 Timothy 2:3, N.K.J.V.) Adoniram Judson had been formally appointed as a missionary to India by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and he was all … Continue reading →
Posted in Adversity, Commitment, Dying To Self, Evangelism, Faith, Faithfulness, God's Work, Marriage, Ministry, Missions, Persecution, Perseverance, Problems, Sacrifice, Service, Suffering, Trials, Trusting In God, Witnessing
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Tagged Adoniram Judson, Adoniram Judson in Burma, Adoniram Judson's letter to John Hasseltine, Ann Hasseltine Judson, hardships on the mission field, the life of a missionary and his wife
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Does God Lead Us Along Routes That Don’t Make Sense?
(“Questions From Israel’s Exodus” series: post #10) God had to use unprecedented plagues, ten of them, to get Pharaoh to release the Israelites from their Egyptian bondage. At last, however, Pharaoh did relent. The Israelites’ departure from Egypt was sudden … Continue reading →
Posted in Adversity, Choices, Commitment, Courage, Decisions, Doubt, Dying To Self, Faith, God's Will, Leadership, Obedience, Series: "Questions From Israel's Exodus", Service, Trusting In God
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Tagged God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, God led Israel to the Red Sea, Israel plundering Egypt, when God's leading doesn't make sense
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Does God Accept Excuses?
(“Questions From Israel’s Exodus” series: post #6) Forty years had passed since Moses had killed an Egyptian taskmaster, fled from Egypt, and settled down in Midian. His Pharaoh grandfather, the one who had sought his death for killing that taskmaster, … Continue reading →
Posted in Choices, Courage, Decisions, Discipleship, Dying To Self, Faithfulness, God's Will, God's Work, Leadership, Ministry, Obedience, Series: "Questions From Israel's Exodus", Service, Submission
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Tagged Jesus as the Angel of the Lord, making excuses to God, Moses making excuses, Who was The Angel of the Lord?
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What’s Your Excuse?
Excuses are a dime a dozen, right? So, I thought I’d share a few “excuses” stories with you. Here we go. Story #1: Mrs. Smith gave her class of high school students the assignment of writing a term paper that … Continue reading →
Posted in Choices, Church, Church Attendance, Decisions, Disobedience, Doing Good, Dying To Self, God's Will, Lying, Obedience, Pastors, Rebellion, Sin, Submission
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Tagged making excuses, stories about making excuses, to him who knows to do good
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More Beyond
For centuries the country of Portugal proudly proclaimed the motto “Nothing More Beyond.” This was back when European sailors believed that the world was flat and had an edge over which a ship would plummet into a black hole. Terrifying … Continue reading →
Posted in Change, Choices, Courage, Decisions, Discipleship, Dying To Self, Faithfulness, God's Will, Submission, Trusting In God
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Tagged God calling people to make big changes, God leading His people, If you want to make the Lord laugh tell Him your plans, monsters at the edge of the world, Portugal more beyond, Portugal nothing more beyond
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Two Fascinating Teachings From Jesus
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in … Continue reading →
Posted in Belief, Coming Judgment, Dying To Self, Eternity, Faith, God's Wrath, God's Judgment, God's Will, Good Works, Grace, Heaven, Hell, Obedience, Salvation, Submission
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The Disciple's Road 