Category: Scripture Reflections
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Arguing With God — Meeting Jesus With Donna Stearns
Arguing With God “But I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to argue with God.” Job 13:3, NASB “If your God …? Did you know your God did ….? What do you have to say about your God now?” We barely stepped inside the door, before my father-in-law began with his arguments. He […]…
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In His Hands — Meeting Jesus With Donna Stearns
In His Hands Image courtesy of pixabay “So the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your power, only spare his life.” Job 2:6 What keeps a person hoping when trials are heaped against him like one stone on top of another—until the only place to look is up? After chapter two of Job […]…
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I Know — Meeting Jesus With Donna Stearns
I Know “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:” Job 19:25, KJV Supposedly, an eleven-year-old science prodigy, a college graduate, has discovered a theory that proves God does exist. To listen to him talk, I realize I know very little when it comes […]…
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The Writer’s Heart: Remembrance — Meeting Jesus With Donna Stearns
The Writer’s Heart: Remembrance Book of Remembrance Books to sign Friends, Food, fun Have you ever thought about the books our God has left us? There are sixty-six books of truth in the Bible. I don’t know about you, but I believe the Bible constitutes the longest series ever written. Besides the sixty-six books, the […]…
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Living in Hope — Meeting Jesus With Donna Stearns
Hope Lives! We know what we know, but our journey with the Lord takes us step by step into the unknown, where He faithfully reveals more of himself to those who seek him. This knowledge is not for us to gain vast volumes of facts about our God or be able to quote numerous scripture […]…
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A Fainting Heart — Meeting Jesus With Donna Stearns
A Fainting Heart “My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.” Psalm 73:26, KJV He sat covered in dust and ashes scraping the oozing sores spread across his body. He no longer had strength to swat at the swarming flies or the gnats eating […]…
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The Writer’s Heart: Time — Meeting Jesus With Donna Stearns
The Writer’s Heart: Time We have heard it said, the older we get the faster time slips by. Truth is, time is time and moves at the constant pace God ordained it to travel. I’ve concluded, if time hasn’t sped up, then I must be moving slower and find it harder to keep up. Whichever […]…
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Victory in the Two — Meeting Jesus With Donna Stearns
Victory in the Two: Being true to his character, Jesus gave the scribe more than he asked for when he asked Jesus, “What is the first commandment of all?” The Lord gave him two—two which would lead the scribe, and any who live by them, to a victorious life. “The first of all commandments is, […]…
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Sharing Blessings — Meeting Jesus With Donna Stearns
This past week the Lord blessed our Day Camp with his presence and answered prayers. Here’s what the Lord did among us: Salvation came to one camper(my great-grandchild), Three other youths were baptized, fifteen volunteers gave of themselves throughout the week to teach bible stories, memory verses, and show the love of God to twenty-eight […]…
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And the Second Is — Meeting Jesus With Donna Stearns
This is the Second We don’t need to look long or far to know this world falls short of the Lord God’s original creation. School shootings, skyrocketing crime rates, wars, broken families, suicide—all that’s wrong strangles hope with a rope of fear and anxiety. Two simple commandments, if followed, would change the downward spiral of […]…
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