“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” FAITH. We have been talking about faith for a while. We’ve gone over it one letter at a time. The last letter — being H — could represent so many different things — all connected to faith. It could stand [...]
Tags: Faith, hearts, heaven, help, spirit
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Today is thanksgiving day! That’s a strange thing to say in September, isn’t it? I’m really not talking about the kind of Thanksgiving complete with turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce; but, rather, I’m talking about “giving thanks”. This being the fourth letter of the word faith, I thought we would devote the entire time [...]
Tags: Faith, Gratitude, Thanksgiving
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By Mary “Grandma” Rogers “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 (NKJV) “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” John 4:16 (NIV) “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help.” Psalm 121:1 (KJV) “I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and [...]
Tags: Faith, Fellowship, Impossible, Service, Unity
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By Mary “Grandma” Rogers As I said before, we will be exploring the word FAITH — letter by letter. We spoke about the first letter “F” in my former devotional, so now let us talk about the second letter – “A” There are so many words beginning with the letter “A” that directly make me [...]
Tags: Abundance, Acceptance, Adversity, Affliction, Alone, Amazement, Answers, Faith, Love
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By Mary “Grandma” Rogers We are going to be talking about the word FAITH — but we are going to be talking about it in a slightly different way than ever before. We all know what it is — we all know it is an essential part of our lives and we all realize how hard [...]
Tags: Faith, Father, Fear, Follow, Forgive, Forward
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By Mary “Grandma” Rogers: “Thou hast multiplied, O Lord my God, thy wondrous deeds and thy thoughts toward us; none can compare with thee! Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be numbered.” Psalm 40:5 RSV Life is not lived as one big deed, it is made up [...]
Tags: Fame, Greatness, Kindness, Life, Little Things
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By Mary “Grandma” Rogers: “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” Proverbs 17:22 KJV Wouldn’t you much rather have a good laugh than to take a big dose of medicine? Who wouldn’t? Although I know, from personal experience, that there are times when medicine is necessary, still it would be wonderful if just a [...]
Tags: Cheerful, Joy, Laughter, Merry, Stress
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By Mary “Grandma” Rogers: “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest and cold and heat, and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease.” Genesis 7:22 RSV According to the verse I just read to you, we can always expect a change in the seasons; and according to the same verse, we can [...]
Tags: Farming, Food, Joy, Light, Plants, Seasons, Summer
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