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... testimony. Just telling about your spiritual pilgrimage. The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church, but he cannot ... I'm speaking of an effective, powerful missile launched from your lips to the ears of the unsaved. Consider these five suggestions:
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... staff personnel with Campus Crusade. I spoke all week on the subject of servanthood, emphasizing the importance of believers being those ... encouragement is that anybody can do it.
Excerpted from Day by Day with Charles Swindoll , Copyright © 2000 by Charles R. ...
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During times of suffering we often struggle with the dread “If Only.” If only I had waited to get married? If only ... bring only more misery.
Consider this poignant scene from the life of Jesus:
When Jesus had arrived at Bethany, he was told ...
... go back and visit each city where we previously preached the word of the Lord, to see how the new believers are doing.” Barnabas ... silent treatment benefit either party. Or bolting from a marriage. Or quitting your job in a huff. That’s not how to handle ...
... two daughters. They are now all grown up, but years ago, the younger child was constantly on the move, rarely winding down by bedtime. ... Before he could relax, however, there was a piercing scream from the jitterbug’s room. Startled, he rushed to her bedside. Great tears ...
One night while watching the news I saw a story about a criminal who had passed away awaiting trial. I no longer recall the details, just that there were many unanswered questions.
A family ... asked “why” a lot. The answer I recall most vividly came from my mom. I’d ask why and she’d respond “zed.”
But the truth is ...
... 30 minutes...as she was beaten and abused. As I heard the story, 38 people watched the half-hour episode in rapt fascination from their windows. Not one so much as walked over to the telephone and called ...
... didn’t work and I only had Internet access when I drove to the closest town for groceries. I had instructions to spend my own money for ... co-worker mentioned in passing I should have kept the money from the returned item since no one would have noticed. My co-worker even went ...
... something that had never been done before. “In order for the land to produce, we must spread out over this land,” he said. Prior to ... most innovative, creative plan this world will ever know. From the virgin birth to the death and the Resurrection to the soon-coming of ...
Read Proverbs 12:17–23
An honest witness tells the truth; a false witness tells lies. Some people make cutting remarks, but ... name...like, Let’s Judge .
Devotional content taken from Come before Winter and Share My Hope by Charles R. Swindoll. Copyright ...
A little kid found himself lost and wide-eyed in the lingerie department of a store.
Blinking a little, he asked a clerk ... spankings—they really did hurt her more than me—but from her I learned that life would hold painful rewards if I didn't obey higher ...
... try to help, but they tend to complicate matters.
Take the four guys who decided to go mountain climbing one weekend. In the middle of ... us that God doesn’t care? I have found solid encouragement from four threads woven into the fabric of Galatians 6. See if you don’t ...
... is designed to help you better understand God’s will. For the next 30 days read the questions and allow them to spark deeper personal ... On the other hand God has revealed in His Word what He wants from us.
Read Daniel 4:35; Psalm 115:3. What authority and power ...
Read 1 Kings 17:17-19
Some time later the woman’s son became sick. He grew worse and worse, and finally he died. ... “Give me your son.” And he took the child’s body from her arms, carried him up the stairs to the room where he was staying, and ...
Read Psalm 27:1-14
One of the most paralyzing problems in all of life is fear. Our fears are directed in so many areas: fear of the unknown, fear of calamity, fear of sickness, disease, and death, fear of ... he committed himself to waiting on God (v. 14).
Adapted from Charles R. Swindoll, Living the Psalms: Encouragement for the Daily ...
Read Job 26:1– 14
“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the weak!
How you have enlightened my ... all the whys and wherefores of His activities.”
From verse 5 through verse 13 of chapter 26, Job takes Bildad through the ...
... a neurotic compulsion to perform, to produce, to accomplish the maximum is now the rule rather than the exception. Enough is no longer enough.
Christians are not immune from stress fractures, especially vocational Christian workers. How many ...
With the dawning of a new year comes a deluge of resolutions, reminders, and ... and productively.
Well, just for fun, I’d like to take the opposite tack. I’m going to tell you how to make zero progress this year. ... and conferences. Make certain to get your ideas about money from the secular bookshelves, and definitely don’t pay attention to men like ...
... while enduring mistreatment didn't merely ask God for help; the king's song included a commitment on his part.
1. Resolved: ... (v. 8). You must pause and read three brief statements from three ancient Psalms: 27:4, 65:4, and 84:10. To him, worship was no ...
... a rose. One whiff of those red petals erases any thought of the thorns.
Tact is like that.
It’s remarkable how peaceful and ... man who had died was a widow’s only son, and a large crowd from the village was with her. When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with ...
