Sunday Listening, Part One
What can be done by the listener to keep the sermon interesting? Instead of thinking about how the preacher could improve, let’s turn to the flip side and consider how we could improve our listening skills.
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Insight for Today
Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
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Being alert and discerning, basing one’s opinion on the absolute truth, is a sign of maturity, a mark of excellence in a life. But pasting labels on people and churches and schools with only partial facts, feelings, and opinions to back those statements up is worse than unfair...it’s un-Christian.
The Legacy of Learning, Part Two
Ignorance is not bliss. On the contrary, it is the breeding ground for fear, prejudice, and superstition, to name just a few. Knowledge is critical.
The Legacy of Learning, Part One
Slice it any way you wish, ignorance is not bliss. Dress it in whatever garb you please, ignorance is not attractive. Neither is it the mark of humility nor the path to spirituality. It certainly is not the companion of wisdom.
Insensitivity, Part Two
A basic task you accepted when you became a parent was the building of self-esteem and confidence into your offspring.
Insensitivity, Part One
Perhaps the most tragic shades of insensitivity occur in the home. Between mates, to begin with. Needs in the heart of a wife long to be discovered by her husband. She hides them until an appropriate moment...but it never arrives. He’s “too busy.” What cursed words!
Suspicion
I am nevertheless convinced that Curiosity and Challenge are the healthy twins in the Discernment family. They are dressed alike until they grow up and become more refined and distinct.
Getting Involved, Part Two
People who get involved are motivated by selfless compassion, a burden of concern that won’t stay folded and creased in a book.
Getting Involved, Part One
For now, go out on a limb: ask God to let you help someone in urgent distress in the immediate future. Be sensitive...He’s going to answer your request!
Encounter on the Damascus Highway, Part Two
As you rub shoulders with hungry, thirsty humanity and sense their inner ache for help and hope, keep these principles in mind. Let’s become more alert to those empty chariot sidecars God wants us to occupy.
