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The Word Today Is “Today” What’s in a day?This DayToday What is in a book?The book.The Torah, Law, measuring stick of life. The reading of the prophetic word in scripture from David to Ezra and Nehemiah to Jesus to us proclaims, “Today.” The prophetic word is God speaking, whether about the past or the future,…

"Immediately, I Conferred Not …" “ But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake … As they…

On this day in 1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. She was a trailblazer! Her real name was Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran. She took her pen name from Stephen Foster's song. She was truly one of America's most extraordinary women, journalists, business woman, reformer, and adventurer. It…

There is intensity in the beauty of the common place.' There is concentrated grace in the focused moment. There is love bundled and rising in the most mundane. There in loveliness in the uncritical view. Sometimes we capture it with a flash and a click. Sometimes we take a snapshot in our memories. Bust always,…

Do not assume that all your troubles are a spiritual deficit in your life. They may, however, be a profound spiritual opportunity for asking deeper questions, exploring deeper waters, and seeking and knowing God more deeply. " All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false…

доверяй, но проверяй, (Trust, but verify) Ronald Reagan used that quote with the Secretary General. Mikhail Gorbachev responded, "You repeat that at every meeting". Reagan answered, "I like it". Gorbachev quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson:  "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Who do you trust? Start with someone trustworthy who has a…

доверяй, но проверяй, (Trust, but verify) Ronald Reagan used that quote with the Secretary General. Mikhail Gorbachev responded, “You repeat that at every meeting”. Reagan answered, “I like it”. Gorbachev quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson:  “The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Who do you trust? Start with someone trustworthy who…

Submission for Paul meant being what God had called him to be, going where God had called him to go, and doing and saying what God had called him to do and to say. It is no different for us. We surrender our self-will when we come to Christ and we need constant reminders that…