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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. -Romans 13:1-2 This is being written before »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood... -Revelation 1:5 “Keep yourselves in the love of God. -Jude 21 What is wrong with Jesus telling you He loves you? Is this a stupid question or does it point accurately to a problem with »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. -Acts 9:1-2 »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“O God, insolent men have risen up against me; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, and they do not set you before them...Show me a sign of your favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because you, Lord, have helped me and »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Anyone who trusts in Him will never be put to shame. -Romans 10:11 When my oldest daughter was two years old, she and I were playing hide and seek in the walled back yard of our Edinburgh, Scotland home. It was her turn to hide, and she couldn’t find a »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. -2 Corinthians 7:10 My good friend Bob Petterson has written a fascinating book, The One Year Book of Amazing Stories. His very first story is set in Germany in the winter of 1894 »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“From one man He made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. -Acts 17:26 When you meet a stranger, one of the questions you always ask is, “Where are you from? We »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“He said, ‘If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to His commands and keep all His decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of His feet. -Nahum 1:3 Everyone wants to be treated fairly. They want justice for themselves and also »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: ‘The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat!’ -2 Thessalonians 3:10 Would Paul and the Bible have been acceptable to modern day politically-correct pundits? After all, the welfare society has ruled out the necessity of work »