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... 2 Kings 1:1-18
Today, countless people seek to know the future. Newspapers and magazines carry horoscope columns. Television ... seers are substitutes for putting our trust in the living God.
God is displeased with any occult involvement . No matter what the ...
... Galatians 1:11–17
But even before I was born, God chose me and called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased him to reveal his Son to me so that I would proclaim the Good News about Jesus to the Gentiles.
When this happened, I did not ...
... 3:1–26
Every person reading this chapter has been the recipient of bad advice. You listened as someone gave it to you. You followed the counsel you received and then suffered the consequences. We have all ...
... six years, an Indiana couple made it their habit to look on the ground everywhere they went. They whacked their heads on a few tree ... Then we had a melt-down-our-plastic party. Then we paid God first (about 15 per cent), paid ourselves next (putting away 10 per cent ...
Read Galatians 2:19
For when I tried to keep the law, it condemned me. So, I died to the law—I stopped trying to meet all its requirements—so that I might live for God. (Galatians 2:19)
In contrast to yesterday’s thoughts on liberty, ...
... happened. It occurred when “Go west, young man!” was the challenge of America...when squatter’s rights seemed the most advantageous way to pry families loose and dare them to brave the ...
... been talking about what I’m calling “witch hunting,” the phenomenon affecting our world in which people are eager to find the Devil in every nook and cranny and to blame him for just about everything. ...
... Hospital. A charity case, one among hundreds. A bum from the Bowery with a slashed throat. The Bowery ...last stop before the morgue. Synonym of filth, loneliness, cheap ...
... Do” list stretches on and on. If you’re reading this in the morning, you’re wondering how in the world you’ll get it all done. If ... at his side. Unhurried, as if possessing the patience of God, they cracked sunflowers and fed him beak to wounded beak choice meats. ...
... I couldn't stand up straight or sit down without increasing the pain. Finally, my folks hauled me over to a big house in West Houston where ... speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness—nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from ...
... courage as she stands beside a fresh grave?
What is the ultimate hope of the disabled, the amputee, the abused, the burn victim?
... though it may be for us to understand the details of how God is going to pull it off, we hang our hopes on fragile, threadlike thoughts ...
Read 1 Kings 5-6
Sometimes fundamentalists can be the ugly ducklings of Christendom. We sometimes clothe the infinite riches of ... I've just finished reading the account in First Kings where God worked through Solomon in the building of the temple. What quality! What ...
... old. Standing on a cold drizzly village cenotaph square in the little hamlet where my family lived. I remember the dark topcoats, grey skies, and being too small to really see what was ...
... me, and I will tell you what will happen to each of you in the days to come. Come and listen, you sons of Jacob; listen to Israel, your ... a better language; and every Chapter must be so translated. God emploies several translators: some peeces are translated by age, some by ...
... 2:1–10
About this time, a man and woman from the tribe of Levi got married. The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a ...
"Well, I'm not going that route. I'm just waiting on God."
"Oh really?" I say. "Then I hope you don't mind remaining jobless for ...
... has a lot to say about "pressing on." Few will ever know the thrill of breaking sound barriers, but all of us live with the daily ... carefully: "But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God" (1 Samuel 30:6).
He got alone and poured his heart before the ...
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Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowds to their side. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of town, ... a clear sense of our divine mission, and a deep sense of God’s purpose for our lives. That sort of God-honouring attitude encourages ...
... When he smiled, his white teeth flashed in contrast to the blanket of brown that concealed his skin. His eyes were blue, clear, and ... that the opposite taste is any less pleasing to God.
This gross intolerance of those who don't fit our mould reveals itself ...
... so many times its meaning has dulled.
I’m referring to the phrase “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” Ever used it? As a child, this ...
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March 11, 1942, was a dark, desperate day at Corregidor. The Pacific theatre of war was threatening and bleak. One island after another ... credibility tomorrow. For now, taste the encouragement in God’s message to His people in Zephaniah 3:8–13 and chew especially His ...
