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Keep Your Mouth Shut & Your Eyes Open

(Note! These admonitions to ‘keep’ obeying all of God’s intentions for our lives cannot be listed ‘most to least important.’ What one desperately needs immediate help in ‘keeping’ is a non-issue to one and critical to someone else. Just wait – you will find the one that fits you!) KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT! Anyone hoping […]

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We Need This Baby!

  God peers from heaven’s portals with barely contained excitement, for this Gift sent as a tiny baby boy could change everything. His coming would bring consequences beyond our ability to grasp. Lives would change, hope spring up in soil long since depleted of heavenly nutrients. In his coming, broken bodies would find healing and […]

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He Came Because He Wanted To Come!

  It’s God’s love, not his grudge, that we bask in. In coming to us to establish a permanent relationship, He carries no rancor, bitterness or resentment. Every indication proves repeatedly that his was a liberation of love… a love so formidable and all-encompassing that He was willing to pay any price to make it […]

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A Christmas Dilemma

  ‘Pre-believers’ (people who have yet haven’t invited Jesus into their hearts) have a bit of dilemma during the Christmas holidays. The reason? There are two major male men who appear to vie for our attention. Yep! Jesus and Santa Clause. Do I dislike Santa Clause? No I do not. He’s not any competition for […]

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Live Christmas This Year

  You can be a Christmas fanatic without really understanding the full extent of God’s part in the season. The birth of Christ separated time into two distinct units… the simple fact is, Jesus made a huge difference and continues making a huge difference in our world. Yet His birth didn’t add breathtaking beauty that […]

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It’s Your Attitude, Dude!

A pre-Thanksgiving reminder from “Fresh Heart For a New Day – Volume 2  from November 25   gratitude… the positive state of being grateful; an overwhelming feeling of appreciation and thankfulness, and the desire to return kindness to others. Don’t go through Thanksgiving … without expressing any! Praise is the recognition of who God is; […]