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... Not just internationally, but personally. What is true in the secret council chambers of nations is also true behind closed doors of ... may not admit it, society needs both salt and light.
God has called us to be light-and-salt servants in a dark-and-bland society. ...
... summers ago. Since I could not attend, I decided to blow the dust off my yearbook and stroll down nostalgia lane. I remembered a project ... of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.... Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were ...
... 31:14-15
In September, Terry Shafer was strolling the shops in Moline, Illinois. She knew exactly what she wanted to get her ... vehicle suddenly pulled over and stopped. The driver didn't move. David carefully approached the suspect with his weapon drawn. In a split ...
... He later admitted that he stopped repeatedly to address the crowd because he needed their applause to keep up his enthusiasm!
Two ... more magnetic. I’m convinced that one of the reasons God gives us so many personal promises in His Word is to stir up our ...
Read Revelation 5:9-10
Nothing touches the human heart deeper than music. This is never more true than when a group of ... lonely, and affirmation to the discouraged. Great music from God's people instructs and reproves, blesses and relieves.
Charles Wesley, ...
Read Psalm 37:23-24; Hebrews 4:12-16
The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their ... pool of self-pity, brush off the dirt with the promise of God’s forgiveness—and move on!
Now I must add a word of realism. ...
... died alone in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Easter Sunday. The coroner's report read: "Cause of death...malnutrition." She had wasted away ... one who could dream broad dreams or see vast visions of what God can do in spite of man's limitations.
Give me a handful of ...
... trouble.”
“Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy?” Reuben asked. “But you wouldn’t listen. And now we have to ... necessary process to make things right with them and with God—when you haven’t fully dealt with your transgression—you become the ...
... needed to be on earth. In a temporal sort of way, I share the same frustration every year on Super Bowl Sunday. "But I am hard-pressed ... in many packages, such as when a mother wants to walk with God, raise her children to love the Lord and honour His name. But her husband ...
Read Acts 27:39–44
The soldiers wanted to kill the prisoners to make sure they didn’t swim ... mean some hard work. It may require humbling yourself before God and others. It might mean a season of counselling where a trained, ... It’s part of throwing the anchor of reality and trusting God to bring you to shore.
The best plan for surviving a storm is ...
... my father, at what I have in my hand. It is a piece of the hem of your robe! I cut it off, but I didn’t kill you. This proves that I ... When you were vulnerable, I didn’t strike. I will let God judge between you and me.”
Read Saul’s response slowly and ...
Read Proverbs 15
The heart of the term "cordial" is the word "heart." And the heart of "heart" is kardia , a Greek term that ...
... His kingdom endures from generation to generation. All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, But He does according ... “What have You done?" (Daniel 4:34-35)
Sovereign God, all of us would be quick to say that we do need to be relieved of our ...
... makes people wonder at your secret. Yet joy is no secret to the trusting Christian. When we choose to grow closer to God, resting in His character and provision, joy spills over into our lives so ...
... Press four for a callback. Press five to return to the main menu.
It ought to add: press six if you give up!
Why ... who can help, imagine what people who don’t know God must feel when attempting to get the attention of people like us who know Him personally.
Yet God desires that we make ourselves available to others in their times of ...
... dropped to zero. “Small wonder he is listed first among the minor prophets,” some may sneer today. “He must have been a real ... would such a man fall for a woman such as she?” Because God told him to! That’s right. God chose Hosea to model his message before ...
... mom or dad. After a quick search, he grabbed his daddy by the leg and yelled, “Man, that story of Moses and all those people crossing ... Are you a closet skeptic? Only believing and accepting from God what you can explain or measure or see? Or are you a believer living in ...
Read Galatians 5:22–23
The rare and remarkable virtue of patience is within the and-so-forth section of Galatians chapter 5. You know how we quote that ... other fruits mentioned, is formed within us by the Spirit of God. He makes it happen.
James offers a helpful description of the ...
Read Psalm 84:11
For the LORD God is our sun and our shield. He gives us grace and glory. The LORD ... of extolling the religious official who spoke of how proud God must be to have him in His family, Christ smiled with favour on the unnamed ...
Have you ever been robbed? I have. Numerous times.
The first time was as a kid when someone stole my bicycle. Fortunately for me, ... treasures in heaven is by investing in teaching the Word of God and seeing lives changed by the Spirit of God.
Here’s what Dianna ...
