7-Day Practical Faith Blog: Beautiful People
James 1: 2-4 A friend is traveling a similar path of grief this Christmas. For both of us, it is our first Christmas without our mothers...
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cecil2748
- Dec 16, 2022
- 4 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: The Tragedy of a Family Left Behind
Psalm 34: 18 I couldn't help but weep when I learned of the passing a man I did not know, a father who committed suicide and left his...
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cecil2748
- Dec 9, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: Sacrificing in Order to Serve
1 Kings 19: 19-21 I was the father of two preschool boys. I was working parts of seven days each week: my 40-hour-plus day job in high...
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cecil2748
- Dec 2, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: Sharing God in a Golf Cart
Matthew 28: 19-20 My boss Dave and I were in a foursome at our high-tech company's golf outing. He and I shared a cart. While the other...
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cecil2748
- Nov 18, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: The Power of Choice
Colossians 2: 6-7 What do the following statements have in common? Our pastor, who was also our pre-marital counselor, taught my wife and...
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cecil2748
- Nov 11, 2022
- 2 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: Feels Like Home
John 14: 23 I took a brief vacation this week to a part of the country I call "home." If you count the years in a place, then my home...
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cecil2748
- Nov 4, 2022
- 4 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: How Your Crisis Produces Compassion and Comfort
In Bible study, we can understand that affliction causes us to comfort others. We trust in God to comfort us so we can comfort better.
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cecil2748
- Oct 28, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Devotional: Grappling with Plenty and Want
Philippians 4: 12-13 My wife Sara is participating in a book study group, where the current book is Choosing Gratitude, by Nancy DeMoss...
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cecil2748
- Oct 20, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: Live Like You're Grateful
Colossians 3: 15-17 The waiter was getting nothing right. He took our order to the wrong table. Piece by piece, our order gradually...
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cecil2748
- Oct 13, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: Imitate Christ in Your Next Decision
Matthew 5: 14-16 Let me follow up last week's 7-day Practical Faith Blog on Jesus' Course Correction to Us with a stimulating discussion...
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cecil2748
- Oct 7, 2022
- 5 min
7-Day Practical Faith: Course Correction from Jesus
I sometimes wonder, if Jesus would make a second visit to Earth to check up on us, what would He say to us? In re-reading today the...
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cecil2748
- Sep 30, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: A Perspective on Persecution
Matthew 5: 10-12 Do you feel that we live in a society where Christians are persecuted for their faith? Before I directly address that...
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cecil2748
- Sep 23, 2022
- 4 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: "WHOA!" How to Change Bad Habits
Romans 7: 15-21; Philippians 4: 8-9 Most of us who have used one technology over the course of our lives tend to struggle when faced with...
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cecil2748
- Sep 12, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: Blessed are the Poor, Woe to the Rich
Shared by Nheyob under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
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cecil2748
- Sep 2, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: How Did You See God Today?
Romans 1: 20, Colossians 1: 15 I served as a youth volunteer in my two "adulthood" churches for more than 30 years. At one point, our...
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cecil2748
- Aug 26, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: Finish That Painting!
Proverbs 27: 17 I want to follow up my Wednesday devotional on cultivating friendships by illustrating one of the major benefits of...
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cecil2748
- Aug 23, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: Always, Without Ceasing, In All Circumstances.
1 Thessalonians 5: 16-18 I was talking to a pastor friend today who said his congregation is looking for simple, practical ways to...
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cecil2748
- Aug 19, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: Bargaining with God
Matthew 7: 7-8 "The End" is a quirky, dark comedy movie starring Burt Reynolds. His character is diagnosed with a fatal disease, and...
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cecil2748
- Aug 15, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: Hope with Confidence
Shared by Eva Rinaldi under Creative Commons license found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en Romans 8: 24-25 My...
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cecil2748
- Aug 13, 2022
- 3 min
7-Day Practical Faith Blog: The Power of Vulnerability
Photo courtesy of Little League Baseball / Softball 2 Corinthians 12: 9-10 The whole sequence of events was stunning as teams from Texas...
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