by Bill Elliff
January 19, 2024
When someone asks me the key to continual growth and spiritual maturity in the Christian life, it doesn’t take a milli-second to answer: It is the daily practice of meeting with God every morning through His Word and prayer.
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by Bill Elliff
January 18, 2024
But how do we help a fellow follower of Christ who has fallen into serious sin? Do we ignore that which is destroying them? Do we stand back in criticism and hypocritical judgment? Do we attack them with Pharisaical confrontation? What do we do?
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by Bill Elliff
January 17, 2024
God can do anything, of course. And there are many miraculous things He wants to do on this earth so the world can know and believe Him. Your salvation was the greatest of these, but just the beginning.
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by Bill Elliff
January 16, 2024
It is sad to live a joyless life, but many do. Everything around them seems sour. Even if their lives are filled with abundant blessings, they somehow find reasons to complain.
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by Bill Elliff
January 15, 2024
Are people around you angry? Contentious? Is there continual arguing in your home or relationships or work that you hate? Frustrating, isn't it?
Have you considered the possibility that it may not be them but you that is causing this agitation?
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by Bill Elliff
January 12, 2024
We see strutters everywhere in our society now. Wickedness is abounding in the land and it strengthens the hand and voice of the proud among us. In their arrogance, they think they are winning, that they have the right to do and say whatever they want (even if it flies in the face of the One-Who-Made-Them). When people applaud you and wave banners that reinforce your position, it’s sadly incredible how bold you can become.
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by Bill Elliff
January 09, 2024
We can put our confidence in Him that any needed justice will be done in due time. We can rest there. Our call to never take our own revenge is a faith step, as we take the issue from our courtroom and transfer it, in faith, to the courtroom of heaven (see Romans 12:17-21).
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by Bill Elliff
January 08, 2024
There is a devious deception that lies at the root of all of our struggles in life. It has been planted there by the Father of all lies and is cultivated and watered almost daily by him.
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by Bill Elliff
January 05, 2024
It is the great tragedy and the source of all that is wrong with our world. Since the Garden, we have pridefully felt we could do a better job than our Creator. Our arrogance is at the root of our failure.
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by Bill Elliff
January 03, 2024
All of us face enemies in life. The immediate response if an enemy is strong enough and the siege long enough is to lose all hope. If we listen to the prognosticators, they all tell us it’s useless. And even if we are trusting in God, they will proclaim that trusting in Him is fine, but it will not deliver us.
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by Bill Elliff
January 01, 2024
Satan’s great agenda is to get us to delight in everything but God. Like he tried to do with the man, Jesus, in the wilderness, he dangles his delights before our eyes, tempting us to live for lesser things.
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by Bill Elliff
December 30, 2023
Songs get old, and each generation writes its own lyrics of what they idolize. But there is coming a day when all of this frivolous mania will change.
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