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... designed to create a better understanding of acceptance. For the next 30 days read the questions and allow them to spark deeper personal ... what was His response to Paul? What can you learn from this and apply to your limitations?
Read Ephesians 2:10. As a person ...
... John 17
High-tech times lead to high-stress tension. The never-ending drive for more, mixed with the popular tendency to increase ... non-essentials to our agenda? Simplify!
Excerpted from Day by Day with Charles Swindoll , Copyright © 2000 by Charles R. ...
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That’s a favourite parlour game among Christians.
The rules are easy to remember. Any number can play. But it’s especially ... needs another name...like, Let’s Judge .
Excerpted from Come Before Winter and Share My Hope , Copyright © 1985, 1994 by ...
... and indulged, in this self-centred harem of Persia, all of the emphasis rests upon her becoming a woman of greater physical beauty. ... clothing, perfumes, cosmetics, whatever she wishes, from coiffure to pedicure, are hers. The only thing on everyone’s mind is to ...
... for her life for 30 minutes. Thirty-eight people watched the half-hour episode from their windows with rapt fascination. Not one called the police. Kitty died ...
... Philip Melanchthon and Martin Luther were once deciding on the day's agenda. The former was disciplined, intellectually gifted, serious, ... a great scene in Luke when a bunch of His disciples returned from their practical work project. They were all excited about their success, ...
... They hold our attention. They become remarkable vehicles for the communication of truth and meaningful lessons that cannot be easily ... than a million!
Some of the best stories are those spun from everyday life or from our past. Family histories are held together and ...
... slow, you aren’t responsible, and you can’t be trusted. The music you listen to is wild-n-wicked, the stuff you read is shallow or ... method...try blessing them.
Devotional content taken from Good Morning, Lord...Can We Talk? by Charles R. Swindoll. ...
Read Job 12:16
Picture for a moment the barrenness and bleakness that happens in a life when compromise occurs. It ... is no discouragement like the discouragement that comes from self-generated wrongdoing. Enduring the consequences of one’s own ... must be trained on the Lord.
Devotional content taken from Dear Graduate by Charles R. Swindoll. Copyright © 2007 by ...
Read Job 27:1–23
“I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights, by the Almighty who has ... my soul—
As long as I live, while I have breath from God,
my lips will speak no evil, and my tongue will speak no lies.
... he is not defeated.
Cynthia and I recently returned from a life-changing tour of the sites made famous by a small group of ...
... have a long way to go before we are guilty of that problem? The final result of a joyless existence is sad—a superhigh-level intensity, ... joy goes public. We can’t hide it. The face takes its cue from an inside signal.
A well-developed sense of humour reveals a ...
... brothers and my father’s entire family have come to me from the land of Canaan. These men are shepherds, and they raise livestock. They ...
... is not an enemy. It seems strange to put it this way, but the truth is, suffering is a friend. Not until we acknowledge that will we ... Become totally absorbed with thoughts of Him.
Excerpted from Charles R. Swindoll, Great Days with the Great Lives (Nashville: W ...
Someone has said, “the best of people are people at best.” With that being said, Christian ... have? The issue of whether their failure disqualifies them from continued leadership and at what level is a more complicated issue than ... key to sorting this out is by separating the leader’s role from who they are as a person. This allows us to relate to them as we would any ...
... distance.
On occasion, royalty in England will make the news because someone in the ranks of nobility will stop, kneel down, and ... out of the goodness of the heart of the giver.
Excerpted from Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom for the Way (Nashville: J. Countryman, ...
... bustling workshop of action and production. That’s not far from the truth. Your mind is a thought factory. Every day on that internal ...
Read Psalm 127:1
Here's the idea.
During those all-important early months and years of marriage, make sure that the Lord your God is the heart and centre of your family! If He is not, the ... that's when "the Lord builds the house."
Excerpted from Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom for the Way (Nashville: J. Countryman, ...
Read 2 Samuel 6:13–14
The guy had listened to me talk during several sessions at a pastor’s ... it. By then both of us were laughing out loud. A few eyes from other tables glared at us.
Pay close attention: to have convictions ... trade them in for a trumpet!
Devotional content taken from Good Morning, Lord...Can We Talk? by Charles R. Swindoll. ...
... 36–37
A young boy lived with his grandfather on the top of a mountain in the Swiss Alps. Often, just to hear his voice echoing ... cup his hands around his mouth, and shout, “HELLO!” Up from the canyons it reverberated over and over, ... expression of Alfred Lord Tennyson:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul and grow forever and forever.
Be careful with your ...
... TV show? Let’s allow Him to answer in His own words:
The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life ... many. (Mark 10:45)
No mumbo jumbo. Just a straight-from-the-shoulder response. Jesus came to be a servant. Being a celebrity ...
