Testing

Good morning!

Testing is a blessing, for it  reveals that our faith is genuine and more valuable than gold -- it frees us from impurity and fits us for heaven. Paul Settle

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith ---- more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire ---- may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ (I Peter 1:6-7).

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A hymn to be read or sung aloud as an offering of thanks to our faithful and powerful God: PRAISE TO THE LORD THE ALMIGHTY.

Winsomeness

Good morning!

Take care if the world does hate you that it hates you without cause. ---- C. H. Spurgeon

Beloved....if you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. Yet, if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name (I Peter 4:12a, 14-16).

A hymn to read or sing loud to the glory of God:  FAITH OF OUR FATHERS.