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Fellowship with Family and Friends – NOT with Your Faults!

October 17, 2017 DrKLeeBanks Comments 7 comments

Do NOT Fellowship with Your Faults! Cooler weather tends to force people to spend more time indoors, of course, leading to closer fellowship with one another. Enjoying the company of loved ones is fine, BUT…we shouldn’t fellowship with our faults! Some people are often quite happy to point out our faults to us…but we more often tend to be our own worst critics! According to our handy online dictionary, we learn that fellowship as a verb,…

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Finding Fault or Offering Mercy – What Would the Golden Rule Dictate?

March 9, 2017 DrKLeeBanks Comments 2 comments

Living by the Golden Rule… In conjunction with yesterday’s post about extending and receiving forgiveness, today’s post focuses on the related idea of choosing whether to find fault with others or offer them mercy. Doing unto others as we would want them to do for us leaves only one choice: Offer mercy! ~~*~~ ~~*~~ Here’s your inspiration for today… “We make excuses for our own behavior, but when someone else does the same thing we do, we are often merciless….

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Don’t Fellowship with Your Faults

February 9, 2017 DrKLeeBanks Comments 1 comment

Welcome to snowy Thursday in Maine, where Winter Storm Niko arrived in full force…yet, from what we hear, there’s a much bigger storm heading our way on Monday! This was the view from our bedroom window, into the back yard, earlier today. Snowstorms tend to force people to spend more time indoors, of course, leading to closer fellowship with one another. Enjoying the company of loved ones is fine, but…we shouldn’t fellowship with our faults! Some people are…

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Don’t Fellowship with Your Faults and Let the Trials Pass – July 15 Devotions

July 15, 2015 DrKLeeBanks Comments 16 comments

Welcome to Wednesday at my blog! Halfway through the week and halfway through the month of July–already! I had the pleasant surprise last night of being featured on my son’s podcast, Uncommon Christianity, where he and his co-host discussed the differences between attitudes of gratitude vs. entitlement. He mentioned my daily posts on Facebook, as well as this blog. 🙂 ~~*~~ Here are your midweek devotions — have a blessed day! 🙂 ~~*~~ -1- “Meditating on all of…

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Sewing Sunday – On Faults and Possibilities – April 26 Devotions

April 26, 2015 DrKLeeBanks Comments 6 comments

SEW looking forward to SEWING some more on this Sunday! It was such a pleasure to finish and drop off a quilt and surprise bag to a local friend and multiple-order customer yesterday. I often find once I’m back in sewing mode, it’s easier to get even MORE sewing done! Since a I have a few more quilts and pillows to make, this is a GOOD thing! 🙂 So here are Sunday’s devotions. Remember you can read Psalms…

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