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Secrecy And Shame

Hint: When someone tells you not to “tell anyone” about something they have done to you or someone else that causes harm, unless it is accompanied by a sincere apology and assurance that it won’t happen again, tell them you will not keep their...

Satan’s Way

Our Seedbed.com Wake Up Call devotional this morning was on the final verse of Luke 4: “When the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.” It caused me to reflect on opportunism, as I have before when thinking about the satan’s...

Authority and Splendor

  From Luke 4:5-7……the satan’s second temptation of  Jesus: 5 The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. 6 And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been...

Temptation, Sin, and Commiseration

One teaching in the Word I’ve used for years is focused on rebellion and recovery and the causes and cure. We use a “15-minute Bible study” on the topic that was first published in In Touch magazine by Dr. Charles Stanley. The causes of rebellion he...

To Test Your Heart and Mind

Pondering today….. Deuteronomy 8:2 “Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.” Psalm 26:2 Examine me,...

UMC Tolerance of Heresy

In an online community a discussion of homosexuality led to a number of exchanges.  One man wrote, “God tells us not to do a lot of things in the Bible, including not eating pork, not eating cheese and meat at the same meal, not eating certain types of fish, or...