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July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 admin VANEETHA RISNER

BETRAYAL  

—Vaneetha Risner “It makes us doubt our own judgment. Why didn’t we see the signs? When did things change—or were they ever

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July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 admin Scott Henry

KNOWING CHRIST

“Trust in the LORD, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.”—Psalm 37:3 THE MEASURE of our trust

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July 9, 2025July 9, 2025 admin Seth Lewis

A Time To Be Tired

By Seth Lewis In Ecclesiastes 3, Solomon famously says that “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity

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July 8, 2025July 8, 2025 admin Scott Henry

LOVE

“Love thinks no evil…” ~1 Corinthians 13:5 SO OFTEN what we think comes out in our words and actions. We often think that our

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July 6, 2025July 6, 2025 admin Scott Henry

A CHRISTIAN’S SUNDAY AM PRAYER

My Father and My God! YOU alone are the sovereign God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! You exercise all Your good will

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July 4, 2025July 4, 2025 admin Scott Henry

IMPERISHABLE INHERITANCE

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to

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July 1, 2025July 1, 2025 admin Scott Henry

SAVED BY CHRIST

“For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”—James 2:10 THE LAW of

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June 29, 2025June 29, 2025 admin Scott Henry

A CHRISTIAN’S SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER

My Father and my God, I bow my heart before You this morning through the Lord Jesus Christ, He is my righteousness, and by

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June 27, 2025 admin Scott Henry

THE SACRED SUPPER

“For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.”—1 Corinthians 11:26

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June 24, 2025June 24, 2025 admin Scott Henry

STANDING FOR CHRIST

“…casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to

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REDEEMED FOR DOXOLOGY

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.”
—Ephesians 1:3

IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE Apostle Paul gives his opening salutation to the Ephesians and tells them they are saints in Christ who have received grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, he then breaks into a doxology, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” The word “blessed” comes from the Greek word "eulogeo" from which we get our English word eulogy. A eulogy is a message of praise and commendation; it’s a declaration of one’s goodness. And since God alone is good, He’s the only one worthy of a eulogy. Therefore, when we gather to worship, our first and foremost purpose is to give praise and thanks to God. And this is appropriate behavior for every believer because we have received the grace of God and are now at peace with Him. The very thought of God’s saving grace coming to people who are utterly undeserving and unworthy of any good thing from God should cause every one of us to break forth in wonder, love, and praise to God. That’s what the realization of God’s grace does –it leads us to doxology. It leads the redeemed “to praise God from whom all blessings flow!”

PRAISING GOD IS THE main duty and privilege of every believer. Paul wrote in Ephesians 1:6 that we were saved “To the praise of the glory of God’s grace.” In Ephesians 1:12 we read, “…that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.” And in Ephesians 1:13-14 the Apostle Paul tells believers that we were sealed with the Holy Spirit “who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.”

DO YOU UNDERSTAND that praise to God is a fundamental duty and privilege in your life as a believer, or is going to worship on the Lord’s Day to praise the only blessed God a burden to you? When you realize the grace God has extended to you as one who is unworthy of the least of His blessings, does praise to God immediately spring forth from your soul? You see, the giving of praise and thanksgiving to God is a barometer of the Christian life. In other words, if praise and heartfelt giving of thanks to God is not something you delight in and continually practice in your life then you haven’t experienced the grace of God in Jesus Christ. Why? Because saving grace always leads to praise as the Apostle Paul demonstrates in our text, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ…” (Ephesians 1:3). Have you received God’s saving grace? Then diligently practice giving praise to God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Tuesday Encouragement: October 20, 2026
In Christ,
Pastor S. Henry
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