Week 35, Thursday Crystal Schwartz A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. 1 Corinthians 12:7 (nlt) When I first got married, my husband and I decided one night we would go to the store and buy a puzzle to do together. Oh, the romantic things you…
Week 35, Wednesday Crystal Schwartz I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world. John 16:33 (nlt) My first real job was working for a Christian organization. I grew up…
Week 35, Tuesday Crystal Schwartz And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. Hebrews 10:25 (nlt) The writer of Hebrews is encouraging God’s people to persevere in the midst of great hardship. They were meeting…
Week 35, Monday Crystal Schwartz “Five different times the Jewish leaders gave me thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. Once I spent a whole night and a day adrift at sea.” 2 Corinthians 11:24-25 (nlt) I had just started seminary, fresh out…
Week 34, Weekend Melanie Redd Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband. Ephesians 5:33 (nasb) At a dinner for my husband’s job, we had the chance to sit with my husband’s boss and his…
Week 34, Friday Melanie Redd Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered—how fleeting my life is. You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us…
Week 34, Thursday Melanie Redd When God our Savior revealed his kindness and love, he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit. Titus 3:4-5 (nlt) While on vacation…
Week 34, Wednesday Melanie Redd You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock. Isaiah 26:3-4 (nlt) During our Vacation Bible School, we sang many of the same old VBS songs with…
Week 34, Tuesday Melanie Redd Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord! Psalm 27:14 (nkjv) Recently, I waited in line for over an hour to get new car tags. While sitting there, I had the chance to look around the room…
Week 34, Monday Melanie Redd And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:20 (nlt) Apartment living. Ugh! After almost twenty years of married life lived pleasantly in houses, we are now living in an apartment. What started out as a quick stop has…
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