Tag Archives: Bible

When God Does (and Doesn’t) Provide

Posted on November 15, 2021 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week This Thought for the Week consists of a video recorded yesterday morning at a local church. As part of a series on our Creator’s provision, and as a follow-up to the previous week’s message, “When God … Continue reading →

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Unarmed Hungers 

Posted on September 22, 2021 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Sheila of Hidden Treasure. This “retired librarian and emeriti” (look it up) from Western Michigan University is a mother and grandmother who loves “digging for treasure in the Word.” Good news: As evidenced below, … Continue reading →

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Living in an Abnormal World

Posted on May 23, 2021 by mitchteemley

We think of life on earth as normal. But it’s not. We get a very different perspective from Jesus. Like Klaatu–the alien ambassador in the classic sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still, who has come to warn humans about their … Continue reading →

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Worlds Without End

Posted on December 20, 2020 by mitchteemley

There are many reasons to love this verse. But one in particular excites me: Because the original Greek phrase “eon of the eons” means endless time, it’s usually translated “forever and ever.” But since eon also means “world,” the phrase … Continue reading →

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Observe the Truth

Posted on March 29, 2020 by mitchteemley

I once studied Shakespeare with the renowned British actor Brewster Mason. Each time I would act out the Bard’s words, Brewster would interrupt me and say, “No, no, no, observe the meter, observe the meter!” It wasn’t until years later … Continue reading →

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Storing the Truth in Our Hearts

Posted on February 10, 2020 by mitchteemley

Connecting With God In my last Connecting With God post, I talked about memorizing Scripture. That should have been easy for me, since I’d been acting ever since the 6th Grade Talent Show.  Nope. Memorization was the thorn in my … Continue reading →

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Everything I Need to Know I Could Have Learned in Sunday School (But Didn’t)

Posted on February 3, 2020 by mitchteemley

Connecting With God I’d learned about prayer, and if I’d gone to Sunday School I might have learned about memorizing Scripture. But I hadn’t. So I came to appreciate the Bible in a herky-jerky way. It began (pre-conversion) when a certain … Continue reading →

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God, Are You There?

Posted on January 20, 2020 by mitchteemley

Connecting With God The trajectory of my life is toward God. Now. But it wasn’t always. My first few decades were spent racing in the opposite direction. I was raised a practical atheist, by which I mean God was simply … Continue reading →

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Willpower vs. Wordpower

Posted on April 8, 2019 by mitchteemley

Willpower! It’s the key to rebooting our lives, to making all of our bad habits go away and all of our dreams come true. Right? And for people of faith, it’s the key to stopping “that behavior I’m ashamed of” … Continue reading →

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Just Snap Out of It!

Posted on March 13, 2019 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Valerie Cullers of ValerieCullers.com. Like me, Valerie is a faith-driven writer who reaches out to a broad spectrum of people–believers, nonbelievers, and everyone in between. She is transparent, curious, and insightful–I never fail to … Continue reading →

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