I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! Luke 12:49 Here's a random bit of personal trivia for you: I am the family fire starter. In younger years of camping, I would be the one to light the campfire. On our large lot, I am the one who … Continue reading On Fire
Holy Spirit
BBC DD – John 15:3-4
"Already you are clean..." https://brentwoodbaptist.com/did-our-lord-mix-his-metaphors/
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BBC DD – John 14:2
"In my Father's house, there are many rooms... " https://brentwoodbaptist.com/when-you-have-nowhere-to-turn/ https://brentwoodbaptist.com/when-you-have-nowhere-to-turn/
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BBC DD – On Belief
I've had a couple of extra writing assignments for my church family recently, so my next few posts will feature links to these. A girl only has so much time on her hands, ya know? May these thoughts from John 14:1 bless you and honor my God. Click here to read. https://brentwoodbaptist.com/for-the-steadfast-and-the-steady/
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Prayer – Does It Work?
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.Matthew 26:41 A friend once told me he'd prayed for God to take away the pain during a season of severe abuse and it didn't work. The abuse - and the pain - continued. Other people … Continue reading Prayer – Does It Work?
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A Matter of Life and Death
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.John 5:21 Our world fails to understand the gravity of sin. Then again, as The Book says, there is nothing new under the sun1. My Lord lived in the same world. The dates were different, … Continue reading A Matter of Life and Death
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Alien
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.Genesis 1:27 I'm sitting at my desk, eighteen days into the year 2022 and near the end of my second quarantine, thinking about how absurd it is for humanity to discuss the idea of … Continue reading Alien
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Debtors
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.Romans 8:12-13, ESV I recently learned that the devotions I've written for … Continue reading Debtors
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Christ’s Likeness
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he … Continue reading Christ’s Likeness
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A Thorny Problem
And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles … Continue reading A Thorny Problem
Running the Race 