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- How to Boost Your Immunities…Part 22–Prophetic Dream?
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- How to Boost Your Immunities…Part 20–Re-Mastered Interview of ex-KGB Informant Who Warned the West of Internal Communist Takeover
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- How to Boost Your Immunities, 2020 Edition, Part 19–Know the “Playbook” (Redux)
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- Help and Encouragement in the “Iron(y) Age”
- Beware the Power of Thought-Shaping, Action-Triggering Words (an Important Reminder for 2020)
- The Silver Lining of the Quarantine’s Effect on the Church–and Maybe Just in Time
- How to Boost Your Immunities, 2020 Edition, Part 17–On Riots, Tragedies, Mob Mentality, and Resistance
- How to Boost Your Immunities, 2020 Edition, Part 16–Black Swan Events vs Biblical Prophecies
- How to Boost Your Immunities, 2020 Edition, Part 15–Redux (from 2015): “On ‘The 10/80/10 (Physical ) Survival Theory’ and ‘The 66 (Spiritual) Survival Plan’”
- How to Boost Your Immunities, 2020 Edition, Part 14–“The Beatitudes: the antidote for a spiritually unhealthy world” (Guest Feature)
- How to Boost Your Immunities, 2020 Edition, Part 13–Know Your Enemy; Know Your God; Know Yourself
- Why Such An Extraordinarily Fierce Deep State Push-Back Against Michael Flynn? (Guest Feature by Lee Smith)
- How to Boost Your Immunities, 2020 Edition, Part 12–Acquire Confidence
Tag Archives: grace
God’s Love Is As the Air We Breathe
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila While I was researching, pondering, and crafting my “grace versus works” essay, a scrap of advice I read on some online relationship recovery forum directed to a woman experiencing an uncustomary glitch in her relationship with her … Continue reading
On Who Fills the Void/the Rainbow Maker
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man. (Proverbs 27:20, ESV) I was thinking about a conversation in the movie based on the book Girl with a Pearl Earring about the life … Continue reading
Posted in Christian poetry, Devotionals, most recent posts, poetry, salvation by grace, spiritual transformation
Tagged grace, salvation
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On God’s Equal Parts Judgement and Love in This “End Times” Age
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing (Matthew … Continue reading
Posted in Devotionals, devotionals and commentaries featuring technology, Easter/Good Friday themes, encouragement in hard times, end times spiritual survival, most recent posts, prophecy, Psalm 91 devotionals, salvation by grace, spiritual survival, spiritual transformation, survival tools
Tagged God's judgment, God's love, grace, Jesus sacrifice, salvation by faith, salvation by grace
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Merely Well Behaved—or Beloved and Gifted? (On Joseph of Genesis)
Phyllis Nissila MERELY WELL BEHAVED? I have heard yet another preacher expound on the superior character of Joseph of Old Testament fame who was betrayed by his brothers, unjustly accused by his master’s wife, imprisoned and then forgotten by two … Continue reading
Posted in Baptism in the Holy Spirit, Commentaries, Devotionals, encouragement in hard times, most recent posts, salvation by grace, spiritual survival, spiritual transformation, survival tools
Tagged behavior preaching, behavior versus grace, grace, Joseph, Joseph in Genesis, saved by grace not works
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On Law, Grace, and the Joy of the Race
Phyllis Nissila GOING PAST THE GOLD When I think about talented runners I think about two people: 1924 Olympic Gold Medalist Eric Liddell, the inspiration for the Chariots of Fire story and film [1], and let’s call him “Charlie,” a … Continue reading
Though Fragile in Years and Status, She Said Yes: a Meditation on Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and “Everybeliever”
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila In the fullness of time, though fragile in years and status I understood the angel’s invitation and agreed to birth You among us… The devotional from which the excerpt, above, is drawn, linked here and reprinted in … Continue reading →