By CGI New York | November 23, 2018 | Category KNOWLEDGE OF GOD/FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
When we think of the Ninth Commandment, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor,” we usually put it in the context of not lying. Most of us agree that lying is an awful trait and that it usually leads to negative consequences in our life. I can attest from personal experience this is […]
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By CGI New York | November 23, 2018 | Category KNOWLEDGE OF GOD/FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
Last year, I wrote the Feast lessons for CGI for both young kids and teens, and one of my favorite lessons was called Read the Manual. It has actually stuck with me. I have to give God credit because I believe He gave me the creativity and words to write those lessons. I had never […]
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By CGI New York | September 1, 2018 | Category KNOWLEDGE OF GOD/FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT, The Sabbath
Have you ever felt like you were constantly busy? I have been so busy that I can’t believe it is already the end of August, that the Feast is just four weeks away, and I need to get school started. Where did the summer go? I sometimes wonder why I am always so busy because […]
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By CGI New York | September 1, 2018 | Category Holy Days, KNOWLEDGE OF GOD/FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
The New Church Lady Blog My daughter talked me into listening to a book titled The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning.* It talks about preparing, as you get older, for the time you are no longer around. Specifically, it encourages aging adults to take on the task of cleaning out clutter and down-sizing in […]
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By CGI New York | September 1, 2018 | Category KNOWLEDGE OF GOD/FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
Sometimes life can figuratively knock the breath out of you. Trials can come in an avalanche rolling you down the hill that you were just about to conquer, leaving you breathless, stunned, hurt, and bewildered at the bottom on the ground covered with piles of “snow” on top of you preventing you from standing back […]
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By CGI New York | July 14, 2018 | Category KNOWLEDGE OF GOD/FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
The New Church Lady Blog Perhaps, like me, you have seen it many times: new believers, very excited about what Jesus had done for them, and what God has revealed to them, riding appropriately high on this new hope, excited about their new understanding about salvation and abut finding repentance, forgiveness, and peace, and just […]
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By CGI New York | July 14, 2018 | Category KNOWLEDGE OF GOD/FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
The New Church Lady Blog Recently, I was watching an episode from the Science Nature Page that showed the connection between physical activity and brain health. The video gave a summary of a medical study that found that people who are inactive, especially if they are unable to do load-bearing exercise, including bed-ridden people and […]
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By CGI New York | July 14, 2018 | Category KNOWLEDGE OF GOD/FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
I am rereading the Bible. It is fascinating how many times I have read Genesis, yet I always notice something “new.” I am realizing that the Word of God is a living thing because of the fact that I can learn something no matter how many times I may have read the same scriptures. I […]
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By CGI New York | July 14, 2018 | Category KNOWLEDGE OF GOD/FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
The New Church Lady Blog Apparently, we humans have a very dim view of our ability to actually better the world we live in or to rule it in peace and kindness, let alone love. According to Hollywood movies and the books some of those movies are based on the future for mankind is bleak. […]
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By CGI New York | July 14, 2018 | Category KNOWLEDGE OF GOD/FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
Are you so focused on your failures, missed opportunities, mistakes, trials, etc… that you miss God’s beauty? Do you overlook the blessings that you already have because they don’t match the “pictures of success” in your mind? If yes, then you are looking at the wrong things. You are listening to the deceiver who doesn’t […]
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