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06/25/2026

Thursday morning from Critter Cove! <

I greet you in Christ Jesus. You are loved!

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6

It can be easy to fool ourselves into believing that what we want to do is also what God wants us to do. When we believe we’ve heard from the Lord, it is important to ask ourselves some questions:
• Is the message I heard consistent with God’s Word? The Lord will never tell you to do anything that goes against His Word. If you feel prompted to do something contrary to Scripture, you can be certain that it is not of the Lord.

• Can I confidently ask God to enable me to do this? If you are feeling uneasy about requesting God’s help, that may be a sign the direction did not originate with Him.

• Is it wise? The heavenly Father never calls believers to act foolishly. If there is no discernible purpose in the action, you may need to question whether the message was from Him.

• Does it fit with my identity in Christ? As God’s child, you are being conformed to the likeness of Christ. If you feel led to do something that is inconsistent with the character of Jesus, then you can be sure God hasn’t called you to do it.

The Lord is with you, in the presence of the Holy Spirit, enabling you to hear His voice and perceive His guidance for your life (John 14:26). Before rushing into action, ask Him to guide you to make good decisions.

Charles Stanley

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Have a Tremendous Thursday! :-)

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For you did not receive the spirit of bo***ge again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” Romans 8:15

Believer, Keep on!

06/24/2026

Wednesday morning from Aurora! <

I greet you in Christ Jesus. You are loved!

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

From the Jaws of Death!

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said … “Be it known to you, O King, that we will not serve your gods.”
Daniel 3:16, 18

The narrative of the manly courage and marvelous deliverance of these three holy children, or rather champions, is well calculated to engender in the minds of believers firmness and steadfastness in upholding the truth in the teeth of tyranny and in the very jaws of death. Here is a wonderful example especially for young Christians, teaching them that when it comes to faith in action they must never sacrifice their consciences. Lose everything rather than lose your integrity, and when everything is gone, still hold fast a clear conscience as the rarest jewel that can adorn the bosom of a mortal. Do not be guided by expediency but by divine authority.
Follow the right at every hazard. When you see no obvious advantage, then walk by faith and not by sight. Honor God by trusting Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle. See whether He will be your debtor! See if He does not even in this life prove His word that "there is great gain in godliness with contentment," (1 Timothy 6:6) and that for those who "seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness . . . all these things will be added to you." (Matthew 6:33)

Should it happen that in the providence of God you are a loser for conscience's sake, you will find that if the Lord does not pay you back in the silver of earthly prosperity, He will discharge His promise in the gold of spiritual joy. Remember that a man's life does not consist in the abundance of what he possesses.

To wear an honest spirit, to have a heart void of offense, to have the favor and smile of God is greater riches than all the gold and diamonds in the world. "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it."(Proverbs 15:17)
An ounce of contentment is worth a ton of gold.

Charles Spurgeon

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Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. Psalm 19:14

Believer, Keep on!

06/23/2026

Tuesday morning from Aurora! <

I greet you in Christ Jesus. You are loved!

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Free Offer!

As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous— not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.” (Romans 3:10–12)

It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in English Literature to observe that God offers us a gift in salvation. The gift is eternal life, which is directly connected to His Son.

Now let’s be clear and cautious. Becoming a member of a church is not the way to salvation—just believing in the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Neither does God require a long list of heavy-duty accomplishments. Nor vast sums of money. God is coming to the rescue of those who are lost by offering the free gift of eternal life to those who will simply believe. Those who do may know they have been rescued.

When Adam sinned, sin entered the entire human race. His sin spread death throughout all the world, so everything began to grow old and die, for all sinned. (Romans 5:12 TLB)

Yes, everything. In fact, this universal sin disease impacted every part of our being. Hard as it may be to read these words, please do so:

As the Scriptures say, ‘No one is good—no one in all the world is innocent.’ No one has ever really followed God’s paths, or even truly wanted to. Every one has turned away; all have gone wrong. No one anywhere has kept on doing what is right; not one. (Romans 3:10–18 TLB).

That’s the way we are in God’s sight. Being lost, we are in such a miserable spiritual condition that we have no hope of finding our way to Him on our own.

Don’t simply believe my words . . . believe the words from the Bible:

For God took the sinless Christ and poured into him our sins. Then, in exchange, he poured God’s goodness into us! (2 Corinthians 5:21 TLB)

We aren’t saved from sin’s grasp by knowing the commandments of God, because we can’t and don’t keep them, but God put into effect a different plan to save us. He sent his own Son in a human body like ours—except that ours are sinful—and destroyed sin’s control over us by giving himself as a sacrifice for our sins. (Romans 8:3 TLB)

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life . . . . And all who trust him—God’s Son—to save them have eternal life; those who don’t believe and obey him shall never see heaven, but the wrath of God remains upon them. (John 3:16, 36 TLB)

Christ also suffered. He died once for the sins of all us guilty sinners, although he himself was innocent of any sin at any time, that he might bring us safely home to God. (1 Peter 3:18 TLB)

The only issue that remains is this: Will you accept the gift God offers you today? Now that the remedy for sin has been provided, all that remains is receiving it.

Chuck Swindoll

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For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23

Believer, Keep on!

06/22/2026

Monday morning from Aurora! <

I greet you in Christ Jesus. You are loved!

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Romans 12:9

Any patient who has undergone a bone marrow transplant knows the importance of being isolated from any possibility of infection. Because their immune system is so depleted, they are far more susceptible to disease than the average person. If a visitor arrives coughing and spluttering, excusing it as “no big deal” would be abhorrent to the patient and to their doctors. Any sickness is to be resisted like a plague because its consequences are potentially fatal.

Christian love should reflect this kind of radical mentality when it comes to evil. We cannot say that we genuinely love others if we cherish, or even only tolerate, evil in our hearts and distance ourselves from good. We cannot toy with wickedness, seeking to establish some laissez-faire approach to particular sins. “Abhor” is as strong a word as it is possible for Paul to use. He has no notion of neutrality when it comes to purity.

At the start of this verse, Paul has already instructed his readers to “let love be genuine.” Isn’t it interesting, then, that Paul immediately follows “love” with a word that essentially means “hate”? We often think that if we love, we shouldn’t hate anything or anyone—but that’s just sentimentality. Paul makes it clear that love “does not rejoice at wrongdoing” (1 Corinthians 13:6). If you love your spouse with a passionate purity, you hate everything which would rob you of that relationship; otherwise, your love is not love. The same applies to our love for the things of God. We cannot love holiness without hating its opposite.

As Paul continues, he turns from the negative to the positive, using the same phrase, “hold fast,” that Jesus uses to describe a husband and wife’s relationship (see Matthew 19:5).Paul doesn’t use this phrase arbitrarily. Marriage is the closest human union possible—psychologically, intellectually, and spiritually. So Paul is saying here that Christian love should have a “superglue” commitment to goodness.

We must be careful not to fall into the world’s trap of calling “evil good and good evil” or being those “who put darkness for light and light for darkness” (Isaiah 5:20).

Today, rely on God’s Spirit to enable you to love properly by hating what God does.

Alistair Begg

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Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ Matthew 22:37

Believer, Keep on!

06/21/2026

Father's Day morning from Critter Cove! :-)

I greet you in Christ Jesus. You are loved!

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

“I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.” 2 Corinthians 6:18

What an amazing Heavenly Father we have and He should be celebrated every day.

We read in Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

If you have been in church much at all you have heard this verse. And we, as followers of Christ, have seen many times our Heavenly Father turn something bad into something good. He is a good, good Father. But this verse is about something even better than our earthly blessings.

Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

So, the Holy Spirit, who lives in us, is taking our prayer and transforming them to be perfectly acceptable to God the Father.

Romans 8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Our Savior, Jesus Christ, is standing right beside God the Father and advocating on our behalf.

Adam and Eve brought sin into this world and the Bible says the creation groans, we groan and the Holy Spirit groans.

But the Father has a plan...

Our Father has planned our glory,

the Son has provided our glory,

and the Spirit protects our glory.

You see, God our Father, to all who love Him, will through the Holy Spirit and Jesus, provide intercession that works EVERYTHING to the good to see that we make it to glory.

Now that is a good, good Father!

Tim Byrd

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1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

Believer, keep on!

06/19/2026

Friday morning from Critter Cove! <

I greet you in Christ Jesus. You are loved!

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Together Is Where We Belong!

As in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Romans 12:5

Every so often, someone may ask you, “Do you belong here?” It’s usually asked in relation to a country club, a gym, or something similar. They’re wondering, “Is this a place that identifies you as being on its lists? Do people here know you and accept you, and would they miss you if you were absent?”

Paul often uses the illustration of the body to describe the church. We don’t have to stretch our imagination to make sense of it. We all have a body that is made up of a variety of parts, and each part has a unique function. Not all parts are seen, but all of them are important. If one part is not working or is missing, it makes a difference to all the rest. The effectiveness of someone’s entire body depends on its control by the head. This holds true as well in the body of Christ, each local church: the spiritual body functions properly only when it works together under Jesus’ headship. When that happens, we function with…

• unity, because we’re not living in isolation from each other.

• plurality, because we’re made up of different bits and pieces.

• diversity, because the functions of the body are necessarily varied.

• harmony, which we enjoy when things are working in cohesion.

• identity, showing that each of us cannot ultimately be ourselves when we are by ourselves.

In other words, when as an individual you understand the nature of the body of Christ, you better understand who you are and where you fit. As a member of the body of Christ, you do belong somewhere. When God’s grace has transformed us, we should find that it matters increasingly to us that we have been called into relationship with one another—into community. We’re diverse in the gifts that have been given; none of us can make up the body individually but only together. Each of us belongs to one another. We gather as church, then, in order to give of ourselves both to each other and, ultimately, to our Lord. We contribute to the body by our presence, our songs, our prayers, and our fellowship. As Isaac Watts wrote:

My tongue repeats her vows,
“Peace to this sacred house!”
For there my friends and kindred dwell.

Church is not a place for you merely to show up at and attend. It is a body. It is your kin—your family. You need your church; and your church needs you. The more committed to your church you are, the more blessed by it you will be; for few things in life are better than when God puts His people together, because together is exactly where we belong.

Alistair Begg

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“But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10‬:‭39

06/16/2026

Tuesday morning from Critter Cove! :-)

I greet you in Christ Jesus. You are loved!

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Romans 12:1

When asked to explain the impact of his life, William Booth, who founded the Salvation Army, replied in one striking phrase: “Jesus Christ has all of me.”

There was nothing presumptuous or proud in that response. It was simply the only way Booth could explain why it was that he, an ordinary man of insubstantial means, had been used in such a remarkable way and had had such a remarkable impact at that particular point in history.

What would it mean for Jesus Christ to have all of you?

God doesn’t ask us to offer our money or possessions. He wants us to offer not less than these, but more: our very selves. All that we are, all that we think, all that we feel, all that we do, and all that we know—offering this to the God who has given His Son for us is the only logical response to His mercy. When we give all of ourselves to God, all our capacities, as limited as they are, can be used for His glory and purposes.

The Christian life comes with no option for half measures or holding back. It is an all-in life.

There is something glorious about the kind of commitment that says, “I’m putting the whole thing in.” If you will go all in, then there’s no limit to what will happen in and through you. Will you be the kind of person who can say, “Jesus Christ has all of me”?

Alistair Begg

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Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6

Believer, Keep on!

06/15/2026

Sunday morning from Critter Cove! :-)

I greet you in Christ Jesus. You are loved!

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Give Yourself Permission
Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. (Ephesians 5:1)

Since most humans suffer from a lack of balance in their lives, our best counsel on living a steady and stable life comes from God’s Word. In Paul’s letter to the Christians in Ephesus, he includes this most unusual command:

Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children . . . (Ephesians 5:1 NIV)

Maybe you never realized such a statement was in the Bible. It seems unusual: “imitators of God”! The Greek term translated “be imitators” is mimeomai, from which we get the English word mimic. One reliable scholar says this verb “is always used in exhortations, and always in the continuous tense, suggesting a constant habit or practice.”

In other words, this is neither a passing thought nor a once-in-a-blue-moon experience. The practice of our being people who “mimic God” is to become our daily habit. We are to do what He does. Respond to life as He responds. Emulate similar traits. Model His style.

But to do that, to be an imitator of God, requires that we come to terms with the value of quietness, slowing down, coming apart from the noise and speed of today’s pace and broadening our lives with a view of the eternal reach of time. It means saying no to more and more activities that increase the speed of our squirrel cage, knowing God requires that we “be still” (Psalm 46:10 NIV).

To be God-mimics, we must begin to realize that leisure is not a take-it-or-leave-it luxury.

Please understand that leisure is more than idle time not devoted to paid occupations. Some of the most valuable work done in the world has been done at leisure . . . and never paid for in cash. Leisure is free activity. Labor is compulsory activity. In leisure, we do what we like, but in labor, we do what we must. In our labor, we meet the objective needs and demands of others—our employer, the public, people who are affected by and through our work. But in leisure, we scratch the subjective itches within ourselves. In leisure, our minds are liberated from the immediate, the necessary. As we incorporate leisure into the mainstream of our world, we gain perspective. We lift ourselves above the grit and grind of mere existence.

Interestingly, “leisure” comes from the Latin word licere, which means “to be permitted.” If we are ever going to inculcate leisure into our otherwise utilitarian routine, we must give ourselves permission to do so.

Chuck Swindoll

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Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30

Believer, Keep on!

06/14/2026

Sunday morning from Critter Cove! :-)

I greet you in Christ Jesus. You are loved!

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

To us, O Lord, belongs open shame … Because we have sinned against you.
Daniel 9:8

Adeep sense and clear view of sin, its dreadfulness, and the punishment that it deserves should make us lie low before the throne. We have sinned as Christians. It is sad that it should be so. We have been favored, and yet we have been ungrateful; privileged beyond most, but we have not brought forth fruit in proportion. Who is there, although he may have been engaged in the Christian warfare for years, who will not blush when he looks back upon the past? As for our days before we were born again, may they be forgiven and forgotten; but since then, though we have not sinned as before, yet we have sinned against light and against love—light that has really penetrated our minds, and love in which we have rejoiced.

The sin of a pardoned soul is an atrocity! An unpardoned sinner sins cheaply compared with the sin of one of God's elect, who has had communion with Christ and leaned upon Him for his comfort. Look at David! Many will talk of his sin, but I ask you to look at his repentance and hear his broken bones as each one of them moans out its mournful confession! Consider his tears as they fall upon the ground, and the deep sighs with which he accompanies the softened music of his harp!

We have strayed: Let us, therefore, seek the spirit of penitence. Look again at Peter! We often speak of how he denied Christ. Remember, it is written, "He wept bitterly." Do we have no denials of our Lord to be lamented with tears? These sins of ours, before and after conversion, would consign us to the place of inextinguishable fire if it were not for God's sovereign mercy, which snatched us like sticks from the fire.

My soul, bow down under a sense of your natural sinfulness, and worship your God. Admire the grace that saves you—the mercy that spares you—the love that pardons you!

Charles Spurgeon

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Have a Worship-filled Sunday! :-)

Are you saved?

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23

Believer, Keep on!

06/12/2026

Thursday morning from Critter Cove! :-)

I greet you in Christ Jesus. You are loved!

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

It is good for me that I was afflicted, That I may learn Your statutes.
The law of Your mouth is better to me Than thousands of gold and silver pieces. Psalm 119:71-72

Perhaps you’ve seen a TV show where a man is about to step in front of a moving vehicle. Then someone else races onto the scene, tackling him to prevent catastrophe. Stunned and indignant, the near-victim fumes at the rescuer—until realizing he’s just been saved from a far worse outcome.

Our trials can serve a similar purpose. It’s easy to get so caught up in daily routines or consumed by chasing a goal that we miss what God has in mind for us. When we’re this focused on our own desires, we become more vulnerable to making choices that don’t align with His Word.

But our heavenly Father wants the best for His children. He’ll go to great lengths to position us for blessing. That’s when we may suddenly find ourselves facing unexpected difficulty—a job loss, a health crisis, a broken relationship. We wonder, Why is God letting this happen to me?
Does this sound familiar? It may be that He’s protecting you from something you can’t see. Or drawing you back to Himself. The psalmist understood this and wrote, “It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes” (v. 71). If you’re going through a trial, consider whether God might be redirecting you—disrupting your plans so He can implement His.

Charles Stanley

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We also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. Romans 5:3-4

Believer, Keep on!

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