Take [with me] your share of the hardships and suffering [which you are called to endure] as a good (first-class) soldier of Christ Jesus. – 2 Timothy 2:3, Amplified Bible (AMP) I have never served in the military, but I have a high regard for those who have. In talking with many friends and family… Continue reading Have you been to spiritual boot camp?
Category: Commitment
Leave and cleave.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. – Genesis 2:24, KJV More and more people – even many who call themselves Christians – buy into the notion that it is better to live together before getting married. This trend is… Continue reading Leave and cleave.
The New Tolerance
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. – 1 Peter 3:17, KJV According to ChristianAnswers.net: Not long ago, the word ‘tolerance’ meant ‘bearing or putting up with someone or something not especially liked’. However, now the word has been redefined to… Continue reading The New Tolerance
Lessons from the Honey Badger: Part 2
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. – Galatians 6:9, KJV As mentioned in Lessons from the Honey Badger: Part 1, honey badgers have a reputation for being fearless. They also are remarkably, insanely, and stubbornly persistent. Take Stauffel, for instance. Stauffel… Continue reading Lessons from the Honey Badger: Part 2
BEST OF TQFG: There is no substitute for hard work.
We hope you enjoy this re-post from February 19, 2013. Be blessed! The Today’s Quote From God Team Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. – Proverbs 22:29, KJV On at least two occasions in his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin chronicled the down and… Continue reading BEST OF TQFG: There is no substitute for hard work.
BEST OF TQFG: Persist, persist, persist. Never quit, never quit, never quit. Get the idea?
We hope you enjoy this re-post from January 16, 2013. Be blessed! The Today’s Quote From God Team Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might… – Ecclesiastes 9:10(a), Amplified Bible Recently our church was visited by a missionary to Canada. His entire testimony was fascinating, but there was one part of… Continue reading BEST OF TQFG: Persist, persist, persist. Never quit, never quit, never quit. Get the idea?
BEST OF TQFG: You are not the recruiter. You are the recruitee.
We hope you enjoy this re-post from October 26, 2013. Be blessed! The Today’s Quote From God Team You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you [I have planted you], that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing… – John 15:16, Amplified Bible (AMP) We must… Continue reading BEST OF TQFG: You are not the recruiter. You are the recruitee.
The business of occupying.
And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. – Luke 19:13, KJV According to Harry Heintz: “During his 1960 presidential campaign, John F. Kennedy often closed his speeches with the story of Colonel Davenport, the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives: On May… Continue reading The business of occupying.
Stable or unstable?
Speaking of this as he does in all of his letters. There are some things in those [epistles of Paul] that are difficult to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist and misconstrue to their own utter destruction, just as [they distort and misinterpret] the rest of the Scriptures. – 2 Peter 3:16, Amplified Bible… Continue reading Stable or unstable?
BEST OF TQFG: God is working on you. Just hang in there.
We hope you enjoy this re-post from June 30, 2013. Be blessed! The Today’s Quote From God Team The Lord will perfect that which concerns me… – Psalms 138:8, AMP Every now and then, God blesses us with extraordinary moments of insight into His plan for our lives. He lifts us up out of the belly… Continue reading BEST OF TQFG: God is working on you. Just hang in there.