posted by Laura Oliverio • 10:48pm • February 7th, 2012
Thank you so much to all those of you who completed this years Challenge!
Here is the list of those who went all the way:
Erin Bates
Jonathan Bell
Mickaiala Bellamy
Grace Benson
Lydia Borengasser
Rebekah Cook
Nekoda Cook
Lauren DeFouw
Rachel DeFouw
Hannah Dove
Rachel Dudley
Amanda...
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posted by Laura Oliverio • 9:52pm • February 2nd, 2012
Wow, the month of January is now over, and it's time to wrap up our challenge. What an amazing way to start off the year. There have been priceless truths shared during these past weeks, and the scripture itself that you've committed to memory is the most valuable treasure of all!
To each...
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posted by Laura Oliverio • 3:08am • January 31st, 2012
"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:38-39
"OK, you've...
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posted by Laura Oliverio • 12:01am • January 30th, 2012
“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us!”- Romans 8:37
Wow! I love this verse! If we back up to verse 35 and 36 we see that suffering is promised. Tribulation is inevitable! For indeed those who live Godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution! But!...
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posted by Laura Oliverio • 12:01am • January 29th, 2012
"Who can seperate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." -Romans 8:35-36
Jesus loves me...
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posted by Laura Oliverio • 10:01am • January 28th, 2012
“Who is he that 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.” – Romans 8:34
“Who is he that condemns?” A beautiful picture of this is the woman caught in adultery. Surrounded by her accusers...
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posted by Laura Oliverio • 12:01am • January 27th, 2012
"Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies."
-Romans 8:33
“Who will bring a charge against God's elect?”
This sounds more like a challenge than a question. Who would dare to contradict God and say that His elect, His saints (the very ones He has declared pure...
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posted by Laura Oliverio • 12:01am • January 26th, 2012
"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"
-Romans 8:32
The secret of the Christian’s success and joy in life is a burning desire to thank Jesus for what He has done for us and to tell others about Him.
When...
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posted by Laura Oliverio • 12:01am • January 25th, 2012
"Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called: whom he called, these He also justified: and whom He justified, these he also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"-Romans 8:30-31
I really appreciate what Abby shared yesterday. I recently...
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posted by Laura Oliverio • 12:01am • January 24th, 2012
“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” -Romans 8:29
The first thought that came when I was reading this verse in preparation of writing something was, “Oh, no. I have the predestination word....
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