by Bill Elliff
September 12, 2024
As I write, we are in a political season. It is important, in some ways, but it is filled with the loud boasts and constant plots and plans of humans. Honestly, it wearies me and, if not careful, pulls my soul away from the presence of the Father.
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by Bill Elliff
July 10, 2024
It’s easy to make much of myself. To think of myself—what I want or think I need, what I feel others think about me, my aches and pains and discomforts, how it’s going with me, and how it could be better—I could go on for hours. Without hardly any effort, I can spend my day consumed with thoughts of little else.
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by Bill Elliff
June 08, 2024
The great challenge of man is to rise above his natural self-absorption and see beyond. To look above himself and bow before that which is higher and greater and understand where he fits in God’s order.
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by Bill Elliff
June 03, 2024
I wonder if I am counted with those who bless Him with unhindered, extravagant love.
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by Bill Elliff
April 22, 2024
David had seen, experienced, and remembered God in ways that most do not. He had intentionally gazed at God and recorded what he saw. In that light, look at his admonition to you this morning ...
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by Bill Elliff
November 28, 2023
Like Isaiah, the true believer in Jesus Christ has an outer garment and inner change; they will never take off. They are wrapped up in robes of rightness or righteousness.
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by Bill Elliff
November 22, 2023
If we long to know the beauty of harmony with God, ourselves, and this world and the next, we must repent of our pride and place God where He belongs in our minds and affections.
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by Bill Elliff
January 02, 2023
It’s always the issue with every man and nation. Who is going to be king? Who is in control? Who leads? Who makes the decisions? The heartbeat of the devil is that he wants to be king. And the heartbeat of his temptation to us all is, "Don't let God rule you. Resist His authority over your life. He'll ruin your life, so keep resisting Him." This ancient spirit explains everything that is wrong with our world.
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by Bill Elliff
October 19, 2021
Everybody worships something. The question is: where is our worship directed, and is that WORTHY of our adoration?
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by Bill Elliff
January 28, 2021
We are notorious forgetters. God moves and provides for us daily. And then, there are those extraordinary moments when He encounters us. But in light of this growing number of experiences of God’s goodness, is there ever-increasing gratitude and worship?
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by Bill Elliff
April 23, 2020
Do you worship God? Are you willing to be humbled before others because you simply do not care what they think? Do you come before Him with total abandonment? One of the indicators will be your critics. Worldly humanists will scoff at your worship, indicating that they don’t really know your God. But those who know Him will join in the dance beside you … and God Himself will smile.
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by Bill Elliff
March 25, 2020
It has always been our great dilemma. From the beginning of time right up to this hour we have wrestled between which gods we will serve. We have been tempted since the Garden to find any alternative other than the Lord God Himself. And we have bitten hard and fast at the Enemies bait. He is unconcerned about which god we follow, just as long as we do not follow the Lord God Jehovah.
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