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Let It Go

If you are holding on to something that doesn’t belong to you and it was never intended for your life, then you need to ..LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ..LET IT GO!!! If someone can’t treat you right, love you back and see your worth ..LET IT […]

Proverbial Wisdom

Prov 3:3 Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Prov 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. Prov 3:27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when […]

What Would You Sing? – Result

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-153 (Devotional) WHAT WOULD YOU SING? – THE RESULT Recap: A lady collapsed by the roadside, seriously ill. A young lady stopped and called for help, then held and comforted her, prayed with her, and also sang to her. In contributing this true story, Lachlan Dunjey asked, ‘What would you have sung?’ […]

Little Things

Too often we don’t realize what we have until it’s gone; Too often we wait too late to say “I’m sorry – I was wrong.” Sometimes it seems we hurt the ones we hold dearest to our hearts; And we allow foolish things to tear our lives apart. Far too many times we let unimportant […]

Isn’t Your Bag Heavy Enough?

One day, a teacher had each one of his students bring a clear plastic Bag and a sack of potatoes. For every person they refused to forgive in their life experience, they were told to choose a potato, write on it the names and date, and put it in the plastic bag. Some of the […]

Footprints

One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the LORD. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand: one belonging to him, and the other to the LORD. When the last scene of his life […]

What Would You Sing?

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list R-025 [Repeat of CLM-3-136: 04 Aug 2003] We are repeating this as a last minute opportunity for those who meant to respond but didn’t get around to it, or who missed the original posting. WHAT WOULD YOU SING? (Devotional) by Lachlan Dunjey I heard about a lady who collapsed near the edge of […]

What Happens When I Die?

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-148 (Topical Sermon) WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE? 1 Cor 15:41-57; 2 Cor 5:1-10 by Rod Benson “When death separates us from someone we love,” writes Billy Graham in Facing Death and the Life After, “there is a time when we think no one has suffered as we have. But grief is […]

Hope

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. Psalms 42:11 I am not a connoisseur of great art, but from time to time a painting or picture will […]

If You Want To Be Happy For The Rest Of Your Life

Psalm 34:12-14 Who is the man who desires life, and covets days that he may enjoy good? Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. This passage is quoted in 1 Peter 3:10-11 The tone and hue of this passage is […]