Mindful Monday Devotional – Dead but Still Deadly

Mindful Monday Devotional - Dead but Still Deadly

I just finished reading day one of the devotional by Louie Giglio from his book, Goliath Must Fall.  This hit home with me because I really have been feeling like the enemy is attacking me hard of late.  The Bible tells us in Genesis 3:14-15:

“The Lord God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,
    cursed are you above all livestock
    and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
    and dust you shall eat
    all the days of your life.
 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
    and you shall bruise his heel.”

(there’s a good explanation about this passage here)

 

Satan thought he had Jesus defeated when he watched Him die on the cross, but 3 days later, Jesus demonstrated to the world that He is the one who crushed Satan when He rose from the dead defeating death and Satan once and for all.   Satan is crushed but he is still deadly.  Until that day he is thrown into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10), he still is roaming the world like a roaring lion seeking who he can devour (1 Peter 5:8).

So what can we do?  Let’s read what Louie Giglio has to say in this week’s devotional:

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Doodle Challenge for March 2018

March 2018 Doodle Challenge

March’s doodle challenge was a challenge to try to decide on a theme 🙂  I wound up combining journaling tools with Saint Patrick’s day for the first half of the month, and since Easter is on April 1st, I went with Easter/Resurrection Day for the last half of the month focusing mostly on the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ!

This challenge is participated in by the members of my Facebook group, Christian Planner, Journal, and Craft Fellowship and any of you who would like to join us! You can join us in the group or join along on Instagram. The doodle challenge just started a few weeks ago, so we are growing into it, but there’s a lot of fun going on in the group with it 🙂

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Scripture Writing Plan for March 2018

March Scripture Writing Plan

For this month’s scripture writing plan, I decided to focus on renewal.  So many of us seem to have the winter blah’s and need a bit of an oomph, I think 🙂  Easter (Resurrection Day) is April 1st and as it’s a time of renewal it was just appropriate for us to renew our minds with the Word of God.  It really does transform us!

 

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March 2018 Scripture Writing Test

Mindful Monday Devotional -Selfless Love

Mindful Monday Devotional - Selfless Love

 

This week here in the US, we’ve had another mass school shooting 🙁   This time in Parkland, Florida. The tragedy as awful and terrible as it was, is also dividing Christian against Christian in this blogger’s viewpoint. I have over 700 friends on Facebook and well over half are Christians.  Half of those are posting things promoting the need (insistance actually) for gun control.  The other half are staunchly opposed to gun control insisting that if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns and thus there will be no way to protect themselves and their families as well as concerns for too much government control.

In addition, for me, there is a huge concern that our response to this is a tool for dividing the body of Christ.  It’s good to have strong beliefs and to know why you believe what you believe, but in the midst of that, it’s imperative that we as believers disagree agreeably.  To have discussions is a good thing, but when you start feeling irate towards other believers for not viewing an issue the same way you do and expressing that anger at them is a HUGE problem for any believer.  The rest of the world is watching us and when they see us tearing into each other, they ask themselves why they should give our faith any consideration. It’s a very bad testimony and shines a very bad light on our Savior, Jesus Christ.  This must grieve Him terribly 🙁  The death

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End of the Age Prophecy Updates for 2/18/18

End of the Age Updates for 2-18-18

This week here in the US, we’ve had another mass school shooting 🙁 This time in Parkland, Florida. The tragedy as awful and terrible as it was, is also dividing Christian against Christian in this blogger’s viewpoint. I have over 700 friends on Facebook and well over half are Christians.  Half of those are posting things promoting the need (insistance actually) for gun control.  The other half are staunchly opposed to gun control insisting that if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns and thus there will be no way to protect themselves and their families as well as concerns for too much government control.

In addition, for me, there is a huge concern that our response to this is a tool for dividing the body of Christ.  It’s good to have strong beliefs and to know why you believe what you believe, but in the midst of that, it’s imperative that we as believers disagree agreeably.  To have discussions is a good thing, but when you start feeling irate towards other believers for not viewing an issue the same way you do and expressing that anger at them is a HUGE problem for any believer.  The rest of the world is watching us and when they see us tearing into each other, they ask themselves why they should give our faith any consideration. It’s a very bad testimony and shines a very bad light on our Savior, Jesus Christ.  This must grieve Him terribly 🙁  The death and carnage is terribly terribly sad and outrageous. That’s a given.   I just want to encourage you, my readers (and myself) to be very careful how we react to it and to remember to be loving in the midst of our outrage and remember to reflect that love to the world and each other.  Don’t let the enemy use you as a tool in his arsenal!

 

Pastor J.D. Farag:


(Pastor J.D.’s Video List Here)

 

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Mindful Monday -The Greatest Love Ever – Happy Valentine’s Day

Mindful Monday - Valentines Day

It’s Valentine’s Day week. The day most of the world seems to celebrate love.  But the GREATEST love took place over two thousand years ago on a hill called Golgatha.  Also known as Calvary.  God Who Himself IS love took the form of a human born to a virgin and grew up as the only sinless human ever.  His name was and is Jesus.  Why was it the greatest love ever?  Remember the fall in the garden of Eden? Where Adam and Eve were deceived by satan and ate the fruit God forbid them to eat?  There had been no sin and no knowledge of what sin was until then.  But with the fall came the worse consequence of all to mankind.  Separation from God.  If you’ve read the book of Genesis you’ll remember that after God created Adam, He used to walk in the garden with Adam in the cool of the evening.  Can you imagine???  This is the same God who lit up Moses’ face so brightly from

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End of the Age Prophecy Updates for 2/11/18

End of the Age Updates for 2-11-18

Hello everyone! I hope you have all had a healthy and blessed week!

Firstly, I would like to ask for prayer for my other blog, CalvaryCouponers.com. That blog has the same content as this one but there is also couponing content.  That blog theme’s creative team released an update and it threw the layout all out of whack.  I’m still trying to figure out a fix and am also waiting to hear back (I hope) from a plea on the WordPress site where I asked for help.  Prayers appreciated! 🙂

 

Now on with the updates! —>

 

Pastor J.D. Farag:

(Pastor J.D.’s Video List Here)

 

Amir Tsarfati:

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Our First Doodling Challenge! February 2018

Doodle Challenge

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m the admin of a growing group on Facebook called, “Christian Planner, Journal, and Craft Fellowship“.  Seeing how many of us have hit the winter blahs, I thought I’d perk things up by offering a monthly doodling challenge.  Many of our members would like to improve our drawing skills and I think the practice a monthly doodling challenge will give us can go a long way in doing that.  Besides…doodling is fun! Right?  🙂

So here we go.  The first 7 days are empty because I’m just starting this on the 8th.

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