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Proverbs 8

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Proverbs 8 Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice? On the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand. Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out: “To you, O men, I call out, and my cry …

Category: Bible PassagesTag: Proverbs (Bible)

Our Cozy Home No. 106

Friday, November 4, 2022 (Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2025)
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Welcome to the first Friday of November. I hope your month is off to a good start. Today all three of us are all healthy and I pray that continues. I’m very much experiencing the change fatigue I wrote about this week. I cannot remember the …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Edmund Blair Leighton (Artist)

Change Fatigue and the Realignment of Almost Everything

Thursday, November 3, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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You’re probably familiar with the idea of decision fatigue. Infogalactic describes decision fatigue like this: In decision making and psychology, decision fatigue refers to the deteriorating quality of decisions made by an individual, after a …

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If It Was True, They Would Tell Us

Wednesday, November 2, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Near the end of the movie The Big Short, there is a scene that is a re-enactment of an actual historic event from 2008. A bigwig from the investment firm Bear Stearns is doing a moderated onstage exchange with Mark Baum, one of the main characters in …

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Romans 6:1-14

Wednesday, November 2, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Romans 6:1-14 What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His …

Category: Bible PassagesTag: Romans (Bible)

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

Monday, October 31, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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"To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven... a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace."

Category: Bible PassagesTag: Ecclesiastes (Bible)

Proverbs 6:6-22

Sunday, October 30, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Proverbs 6:6-22 Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise. Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler, it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest. How long will you lie there, O …

Category: Bible PassagesTag: Proverbs (Bible)

Our Cozy Home No. 105

Friday, October 28, 2022 (Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2025)
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Happy last weekend of October! I hope you’ve had an enjoyable autumn and were able to make some good memories. I’m so thankful we did our apple orchard outing when we did because Caroline has been sick off and on since then. We’ve …

Category: Our Cozy Home This WeekTag: Albert Anker (Artist)

The Greatest in the Kingdom

Thursday, October 27, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Mark 9:33-42 Then they came to Capernaum. While Jesus was in the house, He asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” But they were silent, for on the way they had been arguing about which of them was the greatest. Sitting down, Jesus called …

Category: Bible Theme CollectionsTag: Mark (Bible)

Romans 8:1-27

Saturday, October 22, 2022 (Updated: Friday, June 26, 2026)
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Romans 8:1-27 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the …

Category: Bible PassagesTag: Romans (Bible)
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