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Isaiah 58:12 reads, "You'll use the old rubble...to...rebuild the foundations."   Lie number two: God won't use you now.   Julie Ann Barnhill continues: "Women long to have their lives count for something more eternal than their jean size, or updated qualifications on...

Proverbs 28:13 reads, "You can't whitewash your sins and get by."   Julie Ann Barnhill continues: "The father of lies (John 8:44) wants us to believe there are things we've done that can make God's love for us end. And on occasion I've swallowed three of his favorite...

Luke 12:2 reads, You can't hide behind a religious mask...sooner or later the mask will slip."   Inspirational speaker and author Julie Ann Bamhill writes: "I tend to be a stealthy sinner—a cloistered screw-up. Most of my life I've managed to fly under the radar...to...

Ephesians 6:4 reads, "Bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."   We keep being shocked by stories of children killing teachers and other children in school, and then turning the gun on themselves. Two boys, aged twelve and thirteen, beat a man to...

Ephesians 5:25 reads, "Christ loved the church."   The story's told of a mother who woke her son one Sunday morning and said, "Get up-you're late for church!" He replied, "I don't want to go. I've no friends there, the music's awful, and the sermons are boring!" The...

Hebrews 13:3 reads, "Remember...those who are mistreated."   The Bible tells us, "Keep on loving each other as brothers" (Hebrews 13:1). Then it gets specific: "Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you...