Category: God’s Principles
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Lifelong Honor
12 Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. Exodus 20:12 What does it mean to honor your parents? I think this command looks differently based on your age. Much like our obedience to God, honoring your…
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Resting in God
I love that God commands us to rest! 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy: 9 You are to labor six days and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant,…
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What is in a Name?
7 Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name. Exodus 20:7 I have read and heard many sermons on the topic of the third commandment. I believe that because God is so good and holy and because He has chosen to…
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Image of God
4 Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. 5 Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of…
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Depending on God
When I study God’s Word, I try to see a few things. Where is God in the middle of what I am reading? What is being revealed about His character? What is he asking or commanding? We all like to think the Bible is a reflection of us. It is…
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God’s Holiness Revealed
2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery. Exodus 20:2 This is one of my favorite verses in all of scripture. The LORD your God. God says I am yours. This scripture comes right before the 10 Commandments of…
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Love.
Love: affection for a person or an object. There are many different attributes we could apply to the word love and most be appropriate. However, when we examine the word love from God’s Point of view, we get a very different picture of what love is. Love is the foundation…
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Hope.
Hope: the desire to see something happen or become true. It is hard to survive without hope. Because of this, we tend to put our hope in objects, experiences, and people. This leads us to great disappointments when our expectations are unrealistic and mismanaged. We need to place our hope…
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Faith.
Yesterday I wrote faith is: simply putting trust or confidence in something or someone and having a belief that is not based on proof. Worldly faith is different from the faith I am addressing here. A great example of the faith we are talking about can be found in 1…
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Only These Remain.
Paul gets right to the heart of the matter in 1 Corinthians 13. CHapter 13 of first Corinthians is commonly called the chapter on love. After describing the word love in detail, he finishes the chapter by saying that these things will last forever: faith, hope, and love. 13 Now these…
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