by Bill Elliff
November 04, 2024
God made you like He is so you could join Him in what He does. His creation of you indicates His invitation, calling you into a personal relationship with Him and an eternity of meaningful service.
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by Bill Elliff
October 16, 2024
When God has a work to do, He prepares the necessary man or woman. When He planned to build the tabernacle in the wilderness--a tent like which there had never been built--he prepared skillful men to do the task on a level that could not have happened otherwise.
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by Bill Elliff
April 24, 2024
Are you weak, insufficient, or trembling when you face tasks or people? Not as well trained as others? Don’t have the abilities or experience of the more recognized? Don’t let it stop you. Your weakness is the doorway to His strength if you will trust Him.
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by Bill Elliff
February 12, 2024
Today, there are people like this all around you. You have been placed in their lives to be a voice for God to them. Be sensitive to their anxiety. Do not give some flippant, worldly response to their need or merely brush it off. Speak God's life-lifting truth. You'll both be better for it!
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by Bill Elliff
January 11, 2023
Everyone wants their life to count. There is inside of each of us the desire for significance, that our days on this earth will matter and the fruit of our lives will last.
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by Bill Elliff
December 21, 2021
For the follower of Christ, retirement is a myth, and should be. Everyone will face a season where they must transition from their current form of employment. If our paid job has been seen as our primary mission, we have nothing to do. But for the faithful follower of Christ, our occupation has never been our main job.
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by Bill Elliff
November 15, 2021
Every follower of Christ is given one great task: to make disciples and see them trained so they too can make disciples. This is Christ’s great plan, and He has no other to build His kingdom.
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by Bill Elliff
October 28, 2021
History is littered with supposed Christian leaders who brought great dishonor to God. Believers are shocked, and the world mocks God when sinful behaviors are uncovered from those we have looked to as spiritual leaders. (And they always will be disclosed because a lack of integrity always manifests itself. Always.)
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by Bill Elliff
October 13, 2021
One of the great hopes of all our lives as followers of Christ is that we can become MORE. More useful, more loving, more gracious, more like Christ, a better witness, etc. Apollos was such a man. We only have five verses in the whole Bible that describe him (
Acts 18:24-28), but look at the phrases God uses.
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by Bill Elliff
September 29, 2021
Just because a church or a pastor names the name doesn’t mean they are engaged in ministry as God desires. The picture of an effective, God-glorifying church is given to us in the pages of the book of Acts.
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by Bill Elliff
August 20, 2021
If we are not careful, the ever-present pride of our hearts will blind our eyesight. Pride exalts ourselves and puts ME at the center of everything. When my vision is filled with me, I cannot see God. But also, I cannot see the people around me. They become objects used for the purpose of exalting me.
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by Bill Elliff
July 27, 2021
There is much that poses for spiritual ministry that is a shadow of what God intends. Tragically, we regularly hear of ministry leaders being exposed who have operated with selfish agendas, ulterior motives, and even horribly sinful habits. Satan loves to manipulate those who are not operating with God’s ways to try to discredit those who are.
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