Tag: focus

• Do You Guard Your Heart?

  23Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. 24Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. 25Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. 26Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways. 27Do not…

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  December 4, 2025

  proverbs

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• Coming Out, Not Going In [1-minute read]

   18And [Jesus] said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21For from within, out…

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  January 7, 2024

  mark

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• Unless the Lord

  1Unless the LORD builds the house,those who build it labor in vain.Unless the LORD watches over the city,the watchman stays awake in vain.–Psalm 127 Here is the great tension between our efforts and God’s plan. Here are 7 thoughts that jumped out at me as I drink my first cup of coffee this morning.

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  September 13, 2023

  psalms

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• Sleepless Mission

  147I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words. 148My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise.–Psalm 119 No matter how you look at it, the psalmist is awake when others are asleep. I have journeyed with friends who have trouble sleeping.…

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  September 9, 2023

  psalms

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• Five End-Times Focuses

  13Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14Let all that you do be done in love.–1 Corinthians 16 We get closer to the end by the day. Here is how Paul ended his first letter to the church at Corinth. It wasn’t written to us, but here it is for us.…

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  August 28, 2023

  1 Corinthians

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• Control Questions

  6do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure,…

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  April 26, 2023

  philippians

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• An End-Times Command

  32“But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. 34It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with…

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  February 26, 2023

  mark

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• The Servant of All

  33And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” 34But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. 35And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first,…

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  February 21, 2023

  mark

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• Who do you seek first?

   31Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.…

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  January 6, 2023

  matthew

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• Naomi’s Plan

  1Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?2Is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.3Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down…

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  October 20, 2022

  ruth

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