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Loving your enemies

A devotional thought on loving your enemies or not living by human wisdom but by heavenly direction, from Extreme Devotion. June 17 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 In the sixteenth-century Netherlands, Dirk Willems had been labeled an “Anabaptist” during the rule of Spanish…

The greatest news

“That same Christ who overcame every temptation and was perfectly obedient-that Jesus is in you now. The Jesus who had compassion on the crowds and who healed the sick – that Jesus is in you. The humble Jesus who led as a servant, who washed his disciples’ feet – he’s in you. The Jesus who…

How to love others

“Now, in seeking to benefit one’s neighbor, how difficult it is to do one’s duty! Unless you give up all thought of self and, so to speak, get out of yourself, you will accomplish nothing here. For how can you perform those works which Paul teaches to be the works of love, unless you renounce…

News that you might not be hearing elsewhere…

Here are a series of articles worth considering and a link to more if you like: VICTORY: Court affirms Christian’s right to refuse in good faith to make ‘LGBT Pride’ shirts Creating babies from skin cells turns procreation into transaction: scientist Oregon SB494 on Euthanasia via denying food and water Opioids and broken families For…

A follow up thought from Sunday’s message

I ran across this quote today during my devotions.  There is a stirring story behind the quote about a Nigerian woman whose husband was killed after Shariah law was declared.  Suffering, hardship and pain were her lot.  But this quote gives us hope.  Let it encourage you today. It has been said God will never…