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The Glory of a Woman
“Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.” Proverbs 31:30 September 16, 2024 Our culture would have women define themselves in terms of career, fashion, physical shape, size, weight, hair, sexuality, and more so now, a woman who has the right to do with her
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The Greatest Fear
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Proverbs 1:7 September 13, 2024 As a youth I have vivid memories of going to a scary movie. Yet when the really scary part was about to come up I went to the concession area to buy some candy. The
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The Wrong Way
“The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.” Proverbs 14:8 September 11, 2024 I recently heard the story of a lady in her 60s who loved to hike. With the support of her husband she was determined to hike the Appalachian Trail. It went well for
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A Wise Woman
“The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.” Proverbs 14:1 September 9, 2025 Wisdom tells us that a woman who builds her home is a better choice than one who destroys her home. We have a choice in life, the choice between wisdom (doing things God’s way)
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At the Crossroads
“Does not wisdom call?…On heights beside the way…beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud.” Proverbs 8:1-3 September 6, 2024 In a very real sense we all have our moment of standing at a crossroad, a fork in the road, if you will. But unlike Yogi
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National Disorder
“When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue.” Proverbs 28:2 September 4, 2024 Our comparatively young nation has known many periods of social and political disorder from the very beginning, through the pre-Civil era of the 1850s and down to our upcoming
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The Gift of Work
“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’” Genesis 1:26 September 2, 2024
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If God is Good
“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 August 30, 2024 If God is good then is everything that happens to us good? Some may glibly say, “everything is for a reason.” However, if you are not
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Yes He is
“Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing to his name, for it is pleasant!” Psalm 135:3 August 28, 2024 Yes, God is good. This has become an often used summation of the character of God, especially if we have experienced what we consider the smile of God’s providence (a good report from the