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Tag Archives: suffering
Quick Thought – Saturday, November 29, 2025: Don’t Lose Heart
Read 1 Chronicles 29:10-20 For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.1 Chronicles 29:15 Reflect History is filled with little-known stories that … Continue reading
Quick Thought – Sunday, August 24, 2025: A Father’s Gift
Read Romans 6:15-23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 Reflect When my daughter was six years old she got extremely sick. Throughout the … Continue reading
Quick Thought – Wednesday, August 13, 2025: Speak More Than You Listen
Read Job 32:1-10 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he. Job 32:4 Reflect In the story of Job, most people feel bad for him because of how much physical suffering he endures. He … Continue reading
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Quick Thought – Tuesday, August 12, 2025: Pray for the Bully
: Read Romans 12:9-21 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.Romans 9:14 Reflect One of the hardest things that Christians are asked to do is to be nice to people who aren’t nice to us. Over … Continue reading
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Quick Thought – Monday, August 11, 2025: Playing Hurt
Read Hebrews 12:3-17 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?Hebrews 12:7 Reflect Last year at this time, we were putting a … Continue reading
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Quick Thought – Friday, May 30, 2025: Using the Ears More than the Mouth
Read Job 32:1-10 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he. Job 32:4 Reflect In the story of Job, most people feel bad for him because of how much physical suffering he endures. He … Continue reading
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Quick Thought – Thursday, May 29, 2025: Love the Unloveable
Read Romans 12:9-21 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Romans 9:14 Reflect One of the hardest things that Christians are asked to do is to be nice to people who aren’t nice to us. Over … Continue reading
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Quick Thought – Friday, May 9, 2025: Trust in the Midst of Trials
Read Job 42:1-5 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”Job 42:2 Reflect No matter what terrible things you’ve been through, it’s a safe bet that Job has you beat. That … Continue reading
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Quick Thought – Friday, April 18, 2025 (Good Friday): What Held Him to the Cross?
Read John 19 So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified … Continue reading
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Quick Thought – Wednesday, November 27, 2024: Don’t Lose Heart
Read 1 Chronicles 29:10-20 For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.1 Chronicles 29:15 Reflect History is filled with little-known stories that … Continue reading