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Examining Scripture: “Rejoicing in hope;patient in tribulation;continuing instant in prayer;"Romans 12:12 Evaluating Soil: Showing hospitality can be a trying task when personal hope is lost. Who wants to host a dinner, plan an event, or have a party when you don’t even feel like smiling, much less rejoicing? Who wants to entertain when your patience is being tried by overwhelming ...

Examining Scripture: "Not slothful in business;fervent in spirit;serving the Lord;"Romans 12:11 Evaluating Soil: I’m learning that people, much like plants, don’t like to be crowded. Plants thrive with space around them so that they can soak up the sun, air, and water. (Unlike weeds that thrive any place they find a smudge of dirt.) People need space to sit, think, breath, and get ...

Examining Scripture: “Let love be without dissimulation.Abhor that which is evil;cleave to that which is good.Be kindly affectioned one to anotherwith brotherly love;in honour preferring one another;”Romans 12:9-10 Evaluating Soil: Let’s clear off a spot in our social gardens and allow our Creator to nurture good seeds of hospitality in us. He could turn our hearts and homes into ...

Examining Scripture: “Having then gifts differingaccording to the grace that is given to us,whether prophecy, let us prophesyaccording to the proportion of faith;Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering:or he that teacheth, on teaching;Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation:he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity;he that ruleth, with diligence,he that sheweth mercy, with ...

Examining Scripture: “For I say, through the grace given unto me,to every manthat is among you,not to think of himselfmore highly thanhe ought to think;but to think soberly,according as God hathdealt to every man the measure of faith.For as we havemany members in one body,and all membershave not the same office:So we, being many,are one body in Christ,and every one membersone of ...