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07/31/2025 – “Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God’s motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.” Joni Eareckson Tada (biography attached)

July 31, 2025 JimmyB 0

Joni’s biography:

https://joniandfriends.org/news/joni-eareckson-tada-celebrates-her-75th-birthday-after-nearly-60-years-of-quadriplegia

Soli Deo Gloria!

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07/31/2025 – “I in them.” John 17:23

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If such be the union which subsists between our souls and the person of our Lord, how deep and broad is the channel of our communion! This is no narrow …

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07/30/2025 – “Jesus did not commit Himself to them …. for He knew what was in man”. (John 2: 24-25).

July 30, 2025 JimmyB 0

Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. However, though no longer deceived, our experience of disillusionment …

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07/29/2025 – “To love someone means to see them as God intended them.” Fyodor Dostoevsky / “Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to the propitiation for our sins.” 1 John 4:10

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Soli Deo Gloria!

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07/29/2025 – Sheep amongst wolves, in this case preachers in the pulpit. Arm up through His Word and engage evil! (Matthew 10:16)

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The first link, is an excellent 45 minute illustration of effective Christian Apologetics, defending our faith, by way of Abraham Hamilton III of AFR. In this case, the “wolf” is …

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07/29/2025 – “God’s Purpose or Mine?” / “He made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side …’ (Mark 6:45). (fyi – this is the devotional for July 28th)

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“We tend to think that if Jesus Christ compels us to do something and we are obedient to Him, He will lead us to great success. We should never …

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07/27/2025 – “Called to Love, Bless, Be Blessed” / 1 Peter 3: 8 – 12 / Parkside Church, Cleveland, Associate pastor Dan Larson

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https://www.parksidechurch.com/learn/resources/media-center/sermon/called-love-bless-be-blessed

Soli Deo Gloria!

Just some takeaways from this sermon:

To follow Jesus’ example is messy and uncomfortable at the very least.

So, Dan admonished us not to stop in a middle ground, …

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07/28/2025 – “Do You See Jesus in Your Clouds” / “Behold, He is coming with clouds…” Revelation 1:7 (fyi: This is the devotion for July 29th)

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In the Bible, clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the …

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07/28/2025 – “An idea becomes close to you only when you are aware of it in your soul, when in reading about it seems to you that it has already occurred to you, that you know it and are simply recalling it. That’s how it was when I read the Gospels. In the Gospels I discovered a new world: I had not supposed that there was such a depth of thought in them. Yet it all seemed so familiar; it seemed that I had known it all long ago, that I had only forgotten it.” (Tolstoy, as recorded in Bulgakov’s Diary, 18 April 1910)

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I remember as a young boy, my mother picking up my father picking up my father from his daily 50 mile train commute on the Chicago Loop. I recall …

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07/28/2025 – “… He love us freely. And He gladly has chosen to give us the kingdom…”

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Jonathan and The Judge

Monday, July 28, 2025

When I was 19 years old, I was hit by a locomotive train and by a miracle, not killed. That’s what led me to …

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