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  • Friends in Low Places

    Posted March 21, 2015 by Dion Todd

    61 Comments 19 Likes 12,808 Views

    Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear Him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, This Man receives sinners and eats with them. Luke 15:1-2 ESVEveryone knows that Jesus came to sav Read More...

  • Filthy Rags

    Posted March 20, 2015 by Dion Todd

    29 Comments 13 Likes 13,743 Views

    But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; Isaiah 64:6 KJVAs the preacher looked over the congregation, pondering his next victim, I sank lower and lower in my chair. He always ch Read More...

  • No Such Thing As a Dragon

    Posted March 19, 2015 by Sunnie McPhetres

    3 Comments 5 Likes 3,336 Views

    But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as first fruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. 2Thessalonia Read More...

  • Risky Business

    Posted March 19, 2015 by Dion Todd

    49 Comments 15 Likes 13,339 Views

    Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the LORD will work for us, for nothing can hinder the LORD from saving by many or by few. Read More...

  • Hands

    Posted March 18, 2015 by Sunnie McPhetres

    4 Comments 7 Likes 2,215 Views

    This might sound kind of strange, but for 10 minutes I sat and looked at my hands. I noticed many things: my fingernails are uneven, my skin is old and dry, I have a scar from a recent oven burn, not one of my fingers lo Read More...

  • Making it Difficult

    Posted March 17, 2015 by Dion Todd

    49 Comments 23 Likes 14,055 Views

    It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sex Read More...

  • An Infinite Loop

    Posted March 17, 2015 by Dion Todd

    39 Comments 16 Likes 14,252 Views

    Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matt 6:34 NIVEach time I would open the test application on the computer, the processor usage would cli Read More...

  • Good Soil

    Posted March 16, 2015 by Sunnie McPhetres

    2 Comments 4 Likes 2,027 Views

    “Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” Matthew 13:8 NIV It's not easy to be good soil. I can more easily identify with the weed Read More...

  • The Riddle: Grace or Works

    Posted March 15, 2015 by Dion Todd

    20 Comments 11 Likes 12,730 Views

    For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. James 2:26 ESV Growing up on a farm with two brothers and ten step-siblings, I got to see first-hand those who were pleasing to th Read More...

  • Prayer Yeast

    Posted March 15, 2015 by Sunnie McPhetres

    1 Comment 4 Likes 3,462 Views

    “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.” (Matthew 13:33 NIV) That's it. That's all there is to this parable. Read More...

  • The Kingdom Express

    Posted March 15, 2015 by Dion Todd

    29 Comments 15 Likes 13,603 Views

    And when they began to sing and praise, the LORD set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed. For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabita Read More...

  • Purpose

    Posted March 14, 2015 by Sunnie McPhetres

    2 Comments 5 Likes 1,990 Views

    “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28 NIV) Setting goals is good thing right? The child care program tha Read More...

  • Sweet and Sour

    Posted March 14, 2015 by Dion Todd

    43 Comments 21 Likes 13,487 Views

    The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness. Jeremiah 31:3 NASBThere is a saying that you can catch more flies with honey than yo Read More...

  • In Order to Install Recommended Updates

    Posted March 13, 2015 by Sunnie McPhetres

    2 Comments 3 Likes 2,005 Views

    “… since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.” (Col. 3:9-10 NIV) “In order to inst Read More...

  • The Sand Castle

    Posted March 13, 2015 by Dion Todd

    47 Comments 22 Likes 13,999 Views

    Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet i Read More...

  • A Pearl of Great Value

    Posted March 12, 2015 by Sunnie McPhetres

    5 Comments 5 Likes 2,106 Views

    “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant l Read More...

  • Shades of Gray

    Posted March 12, 2015 by Dion Todd

    37 Comments 14 Likes 14,782 Views

    For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at Him! A glutton and a drunkard, a fri Read More...

  • A prayer

    Posted March 11, 2015 by Sunnie McPhetres

    6 Comments 9 Likes 2,186 Views

    I come before you now, God my Rock and Salvation, with concerns that weigh heavy on my heart. I know that you are with me to guide me through the challenges that I face. I ask that you be with others as well. I ask fo Read More...

  • When is Enough, Enough?

    Posted March 11, 2015 by Dion Todd

    34 Comments 13 Likes 15,092 Views

    Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Phil 4:5 KJVThere are so many things in this life that God has given us to enjoy and He wants us to have pleasure while we are here. Relationships, eating, Read More...

  • Cinderella

    Posted March 10, 2015 by Sunnie McPhetres

    4 Comments 4 Likes 2,038 Views

    I grew up enthralled with a Cinderella movie – not the Disney version but the Rogers and Hammerstein musical version. I was not allowed to stay up late very often, but there were a few TV programs that my parents d Read More...