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There it is… Every time I go down the street… Just a simple sign that says so much…    BE  KIND Someone has felt the need to remind us that being kind today is an important thing.  They feel so strongly … Continue reading →

All people need patience, don’t they? But do we really want to do what we have to do in order to get it? One of the first things I heard when I was a new “born again” Christian was “don’t … Continue reading →

You leave the house a little late and as you travel down the road, you get behind a postal vehicle, making multiple stops on a busy street.  You suddenly get even more behind schedule. You are tired and you just … Continue reading →

“Shalom”… the Jewish word for peace. We all wish we had it on a daily basis, but often we don’t.  We worry, we lack confidence, and we experience despair, in spite of our faith.  We feel we don’t have any … Continue reading →

“Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing” [James 1:2-4]. … Continue reading →

One way of looking at the fruit of the Sprit is to view it in clusters.  Pastor Graham says the first cluster is love, joy and peace; three characteristics which speak of our “Godward relationship.”  Maybe if we took First … Continue reading →

“There should be no more distinctive mark of the Christian than love.”                                                                         Billy Graham from The Holy Spirit This is an unqualified call to show this fruit of love [behavior of love] every day of our lives but I … Continue reading →

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing” [John 15: 5]. There are several scriptures about how “fruit” grows … Continue reading →

Gifts of the Holy Spirit are unique.  Just because one person gets a gift [such as teaching], that does not mean that all other believers get that gift.  Billy Graham was known to have the gift of evangelizing, but the … Continue reading →

Full disclosure: many Christians have such reverence for Pastor Billy that they love him no matter what his denomination.  In my mind, that is a very good thing.   He was a spirit-filled Christian who evangelized, calling millions of lost people … Continue reading →