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... 1:1-12
There once was a man named Job who lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless—a man of complete integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil. He had seven sons and three daughters. He owned ...
... is essential.
Perspective keeps us from letting the wrong things consume us...and there are times that happens for us all.
... into that baby’s face, they’re looking into the face of God. All the pomp and pride of Rome fades.
For a child is born to us... ...
Read 1 Corinthians 10:11-13
The past couple of weeks have been some of the toughest of my life. My emotions have spanned the spectrum: shock, sorrow, horror, intense anger, disillusionment, ...
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I need to make a couple of observations about the nature of ministry. The way God chooses to lead His ministry is often difficult to get our arms around. ...
... on many occasions I recall being taught by my parents about the importance of standing alone, setting my own agenda, not trying to be something I wasn’t, and above all, walking humbly with my God.
“Pride will eat you up, son. Just be what ya’ are.”
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... received mercy, we do not lose heart, but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s ...
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It was Ernest Hemingway who once said, "Time is the least thing we have of." And he was right. How quickly time passes—and ... this. If only we could tack an extra 25 or 30 years on to the usual span. There is so much more we want to see, to celebrate, to do. So ...
... 12:14, 15; James 3:14-16; 1 John 2:9-11
A servant of the Lord must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone, be able to teach, and ... —a willingness to keep that tendency submissive to God's regular reproof, and a genuinely teachable, unguarded attitude.
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... what little bit of dignified respect I may have earned over the years would remain intact.
Maybe that explains why I had such a ... something I wasn’t, and above all, walking humbly with my God.
I’m grateful for those reminders; they have made me who I am today. ...
... for Living, June 30 represents an annual milestone. It’s the date our accountants have designated to close the financial books and ... reaching men and women across your country with the truth of God’s Word.
And this year there’s an extra layer of intensity. We ...
... world. What needed messages it offers to our times!
The first: If God’s ways are higher than mine, then I bow before Him in submission. The ...
... smothering than loving? That’s why you are blown away with the thought of relaxing your gargantuan grip on the things and people you love ... But wait. Everything is safe which is committed to our God. In fact, nothing is safe which is not so committed. No child. No job. No ...
Read Exodus 6:13
Right after God told Moses what He would do, He said to him, “You must believe it. I command you to do this thing.” “Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh king of ... to bring the Israelites out of Egypt” (v. 13 NIV).
God was saying, “This is going to happen. The Israelites will come out of ...
... describes our world. Vast, sweeping changes, especially in the last 150 years. Simply to survive requires adjusting, and to make any kind ... conveniences, computers, clothing, and cars.
Since God is eternally relevant, since none of this blows Him away (omniscience can't ...
Read 1 Peter 2:12
Mediocrity is fast becoming the byword of our times. Every imaginable excuse is now used to make it ... and outrunning excellence. Those forces seem to be winning the race. Incompetence and status quo averages are held up as all we can now ...
Read 1 Corinthians 11:28, 31
Thanks to the Word of God, we can list several marks of integrity that God would have us ...
Read Psalm 148
There was once a cricket on the loose in my former church. When things were quiet and still, his wings sang ... during long prayers. And very early on Sunday morning before the place started jumpin' with cars and microphones and organ preludes.
I ...
... (Luke 23:42–43)
We are not surprised to find a God-ordained and therefore significant reason behind the arrangement of Golgotha’s three crosses. It gave Jesus an opportunity to ...
Read Esther 5:5-7
The king turned to his attendants and said, “Tell Haman to come quickly to a ... cage, this little space where light is often diffused and God is sometimes silent, how can we be sensitive to His interventions? What do we do when we, like Job, struggle in the fog with God’s silence, when we’re convinced that His silence means absence?
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... I will come out as pure as gold.
For I have stayed on God’s paths; I have followed his ways and not turned aside.
I have not ... are days we search in vain for some visible evidence of the living God. I’m thinking, Wouldn’t it be great to wake up in the ...
