by Bill Elliff
July 09, 2024
But the man who hides God’s Word in his heart and builds it into his soul with faithful obedience gains the great treasure. He becomes a wise man who knows God and can be greatly used by God to help others.
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by Bill Elliff
July 08, 2024
When a man has sought and found God's wisdom and lived by it, it changes everything.
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by Bill Elliff
July 05, 2024
God has always been very clear about this: the greatest thing is LOVE. Not “phileo,” brotherly love. And not “eros,” self-seeking love, but “agape love, which is that God-quality that always responds in self-sacrifice. It is a love only found in God and is the essence of His nature. And it is a love we can experience as Christ comes to live in us. We can learn to let His love flow through us like rivers of living water, giving life to all.
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by Bill Elliff
July 03, 2024
We are in the middle of one more dramatic presidential election. Every four years, we must decide between two very imperfect people to give leadership to our nation. It’s a privilege to be in a land where we can do this. But the drama, deception, and politcizing of these human elections is increasingly exhausting. And we don’t know what really goes on behind the scenes.
That’s why I’m voting for Jesus this November.
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by Bill Elliff
June 27, 2024
If you want to understand why you have trouble pursuing God, it is because you are convinced other things are more important. We treasure power, possessions, popularity, the applause of men, comfort, and pleasure, and the list goes on. We dart from one thing to the next, thinking it will give us the satisfaction we crave.
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by Bill Elliff
June 25, 2024
If we’re not careful, our souls can pull us away from intimacy with Christ and drive our lives. We can live soulish, carnal (fleshly) lives even though Christ is in us. This is the source of all our difficulties in the Christian life. So, how do we handle our souls?
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by Bill Elliff
June 24, 2024
How do we interpret the increasing evil around us? The depraved thinking that shouts wrong as right? The diabolical deception wrapping its tentacles around our children? The sexual depravity that is not only openly practiced but promoted, applauded, and exported? The rapid rise of violence and crime? Once beautiful and orderly cities spiraling into anarchy and chaos?
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by Bill Elliff
June 21, 2024
God will always empower us for the tasks He wants accomplished … if we will ask
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by Bill Elliff
June 20, 2024
Nothing is held back for those upon whom the Lord has set His love. Nothing spared from His inexhaustible storehouse. He gives us everything we need, in the proper amount, at the proper time, and in the proper way, and He bestows it freely.
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by Bill Elliff
June 17, 2024
Here is the daily, hourly question we should constantly ask: Am I walking by the Spirit? By His leading and by His empowering?
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by Bill Elliff
June 14, 2024
Christ is now with me and, by His Spirit, IN me! I have everything I need because I have Him, and He has me. I am alive because He lives in me. This means I have all the power I need to live in this world, and I can enter into the next.
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by Bill Elliff
June 13, 2024
Most people struggle with a man-pleasing spirit. We all want to be liked. Out of that desire, we often do or say things (or do NOT do or say things) purely to gain the favor of others.
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