Partnership

3 I thank my God every time I remember you. 4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, 6 being confident of this, that he who began a good
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Non-singer sing!

Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises. Psalms 47:6 Last night my brother was conducting an “evening of music” at the children's school, an outstanding show and very refreshing. Afterwards the headmaster got up and spoke
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Praise the Lord!

1 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, you his servants; praise the name of the Lord. 2 Let the name of the Lord be praised, both now and for evermore. 3 From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be
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Worship worship

23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in the Spirit and in truth. John 4:23-
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Stoke the fire

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. John 4:23 The whole thinking behind the name of this devotional column, Stoke the Fire is
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Living on the alter

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship. Rom 12:1 Worship is a word that we abuse a lot; often we confine its meaning e
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Love and truth

18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 if our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he know
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Love in action

Dear children, let us love not with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18 In John 14:15, Jesus taught his disciples that if they loved him, they would keep his commands. The evidence of our love for God is not so much in the things that we
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Love and money

If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 1 John 3:17 Sometimes (often actually) the Bible can be so direct. There's no dodging this verse and not many ways to in
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Love is God

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 1 John 3:16 It's incredible how similar 1 John 3:16 and John 3:16 are. John must have been having fun when he wrote the 2
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