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DAILY DEVOTIONAL – Day 28

“Do for others what you want them to do for you: this is the meaning of the Law of Moses and of the teachings of the prophets” (Matthew 7:12, GNT).

 

     They say that necessity makes strange bed fellows. Who would conceive that a tarantula and a frog would become faithful friends? It’s true. Microhylids, or narrow-mouth frogs, live with tarantulas and feed on the tiny insects that burrow into the ground and eat the spiders’ eggs.


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DAILY DEVOTIONAL – Day 27

1 Corinthians 9:19-23, ESV

19 For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means, I might save some. 23 I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL – Day 26

Proverbs 26:4-5, NIV

 

     I do not know Tim Tebow personally but I like what I see and hear from him.  Mr. Tebow came to prominence during the Florida Gator’s national football championship run in 2006.  (Actually, the guy broke my heart by beating my beloved Ohio State Buckeyes.)


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DAILY DEVOTIONAL – Day 25

Read Matthew 18:15-17

     Conflict is nothing new to humanity.  Disagreement has been with us since the days of Cain and Abel.  Whenever two or three are gathered together, our human differences are certain to arise.


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DAILY DEVOTIONAL – Day 24

Revelation 2:2-5
2 “Write this to the angel of the church in Ephesus:
These are the words of the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven
gold lampstands:  2  I know your works, your labor, and your endurance. I also know that you don’t put
up with those who are evil. You have tested those who say they are apostles but are not, and you have
found them to be liars.

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL – Day 23

“I can do all things through him who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13, NRSV).   
     Last Friday the New York Times reported that twenty-five employees of a Swiss advertising agency were injured while walking over hot coals in Zurich Switzerland. Multiple emergency units were dispatched. Thirteen people were hospitalized.

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