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"A REAL FRIEND WILL TELL YOU WHEN YOUR FACE IS DIRTY"- sicilian proverb The nuggets of truth from Proverbs are so timeless! Chapter twenty-seven brought to mind all the people I call friends ( love you, Kendra!) and how multidimensional a true friendship must be. Solomon reminded me that a true friend will not hold back the truth, especially if it could save my life. And I must recognize the value in that friend who is unafraid to be truthful to me. On the other hand I am encouraged to know that, to a hungry soul, something bitter will taste sweet ( Prov. 27:7) This tells me that when there is a hunger for right, that a sometimes tough pill, can be swallowed. My friend will recognize the love in my truth, so there is no fear of losing my friendship. So As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend . ( Prov. 27:17) Being a friend is more then just cordiality and politeness, it is about realities and righteousness. I am...

A man is sitting at the table with a sneer and he's holding his Bible up and slightly open. As his wife passes, he says, "Okay Meg, I admit it...I read the Bible by letting it flip open at random...but did you HAVE to bend the pages, so it would always stop at Ephesians 5:28?" See more toons by Trudy O. McConnell to make ya smirk or smile here  at Christiancartoons (dot) com ! Thanks Trudy for sharing your talent with us and honing our faith at the same time!

Good day everyone! I was touched by a couple of prayer requests that went out by New Tribes Mission over the past couple of weeks and I'd love for my blogger family to lift them up in prayer with us! Teachers!     Missionaries in Mozambique would like us to pray for teachers to teach their children while they are ministering the gospel to the tribes. We forget about that don't we?! I love how NTM brings the lives of the missionaries front & center! We seem to follow thought patterns that make us believe that missionaries are single, young people or married couples with no children. That's far from the truth! There are missionaries with 1 child to many children! Because there are no teachers for their children, mothers and fathers have to homeschool alongside their missionary responsibilities. We need to pray that God will provide for not just missionaries in Mozambique, but for those all over the world. It's a huge need that needs to be met, but we serve Jehov...

Hi Family! We hope that your holiday was truly blessed! Not blessed with things  but blessings of fellowship, giving, and most importantly, love. I think we take for granted the opportunity to be surrounded by people who  actually  want to be around us and who want to invest in our lives in some way! Although our year is full of holidays of pagan origin, they are awesome times for the family of God to gather together and just love on each other! Also, I surely don't take holidays that my husband gets off of work lightly! Love....

According to webster the word expression from the latin word expresses means "to press out". When we ex-press ourselves, whether we say a word, make a facial ex-pression, or take an action, we are pressing out ourselves in a visible or audible manner. This allows someone else to see who we are, from the inside. See what we stand for, what we believe in- WHO WE ARE. Take a look at this passage from Hebrews 1 1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, Who is His Son and the express image of His person? Jesus Christ. 1John 5 6This is he that came by water and blood, even...

John 19:33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out." This verse jumped out at me as I read the all-familiar crucifixion story. The blood that washes us white as snow- the blood, that is applied to us as we are dipped in the name charged waters of baptism. O! The blood, that brings atonement- bridging the gap that our sins created. This reminds me of a shadow of the cross that can be seen in the cleansing ritual in leviticus 14. Two birds are brought to the altar, one is killed over running water, in an earthen vessel, and the live one is dipped in the blood of the sacrificed one. The live bird is set free, now covered in the blood of the offered bird. Astounding to see the same principle of blood, and running water, and the earthen vessel ( the body of Christ), and redemption because of the dipping in blood . Worthy is the lamb...

Jesus, Emmanuel, YHWH, Jehovah Yeshua "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders; his name shall be called Wonderful counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" - Isa. 9:6