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... Cops as well as criminals. Parents as well as kids. The diligent as well as the lazy. Not even presidents are immune. Or ... it. So, welcome to the club. And I’ve said for years that God is often easier to get along with than His people. Why do we kick each ...
Read Matthew 4:18–20
I'm the guy who promotes waiting and allowing the Lord to open the doors and shove ... for the rest of your days—especially when it comes to God’s calling.
There was no waiting around and praying about it when ... the starting blocks for a New Year.
Do you know what God has called you to do? Do it at once !
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Read Ephesians 5:1–2
Following the sixth day of creation, the Lord God deliberately stopped working. He rested. It wasn’t that there was nothing ...
... as our Father sees, I’m convinced we would be amazed at the size of His family. If the spiritual iceberg were suddenly turned upside ... ignorant and unaware of the full scope, the whole story! Our God has planted His people all over this globe. The bamboo curtain, the ...
Read Amos 8:11–12
The word hangs like an omen in our heads.
We picture brutal, grotesque ... our homes. A regular diet of the unadulterated truth of God is a rare experience.
Sadly, our Christian culture provides the false ... the life-transforming and nutritious truths from the Word of God.
Caught in a spiritual “fast-food” lifestyle? Replace shallow ...
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Overwhelming odds can make cowards of us all. I remember the first time I felt overwhelmed regarding ministry in a vast arena. My life ... our lives were relaxed and rather simple, and our scope of God's work was quite comfortable.
The call to Fullerton, California, in ...
... a game of pursuit reduced to a single goal—just track the leader. It’s easy to play and carried more fun that its simplicity ... to maintain his speed. I've found it a challenge to keep God's pace. He's not too fast, but too slow! I find myself way out front. Now ...
... leaving our house once a month for dinner and a movie with the guy she loved: Her dad. It wasn't for lack of alternatives. Boys proposed ... to her bedroom door. Psalm 56:1: “Be merciful to me, O God, for men hotly pursue me.” And they did. A few showed up holding flowers. ...
... Psalm 34; Psalm 57
My heart is confident in you, O God; my heart is confident. No wonder I can sing your praises!
Wake up, my heart! Wake up, O lyre and harp! I will wake the dawn with my song.
I will thank you, LORD, among all the people. I will ...
... we observe three calm, vulnerable responses from him. Take the time to read through these two chapters—they’re magnificent! Job’s ... seems to be, “ I am unable to locate the presence of God, but I trust You, Lord. ” I find that coming through loud and clear in ...
Read 1 Peter 3:15-16
One of the toughest assignments in life is to communicate clearly what happened during ... talk in plain, concrete, authentic terms, as the Spirit of God works to complete the task!
I’ve always appreciated how the apostle ... or to your spouse or your friend. Take that assignment from God. Be ready! Then, perhaps most importantly, ask the Lord to give you a ...
Read Job 42:1– 11
God’s plans are beyond our understanding and too deep to explain. Perhaps God doesn’t explain Himself because knowing and understanding His way may not ... Stop and ask yourself: Does knowing why really help? Is the pain removed by knowing the cause? Ours is a world filled with devastating ...
Read Hebrews 11
Tucked away in the folds of Hebrews 11 is a two-word biography worth a second glance: "he endured" (11:27). The "he" refers to Moses. Moses was the one who hung tough, who refused to give ... mind when he introduced his classic essay on the armour of God by saying, "and having done everything...stand firm" (Ephesians 6:13).
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... I was working as an apprentice in a machine shop in Houston. The result was a trip to the hospital and a surgical procedure, during which the doctor inserted a ...
Read Genesis 16:2
So Sarai said to Abram, “The LORD has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. ... the birth of Isaac, the true son of Abram’s covenant with God, we’ll see Abram was one hundred years old then. Abram and Sarai tried to ...
Read Esther 7:6– 10
All the time Haman was having the gallows built, he could see—enthusiastically ... call this irony. Theologians call it sovereignty. I call it God’s surprising sovereignty!
I can remember a time early on in my ministerial training when the sovereignty of God was frightening to me. Not understanding its implications as fully as I do ...
Read Esther 4:12-16
When it comes to touching the heart, few things do it as well as a song or a story. We all know occasions ... with the right lyrics wooed us or someone we know back to God. Sometimes it is a song that our mother taught us, or some moving hymn we ...
... us every once in a while. In both dramatic and subtle ways, the stubborn enemy of our souls whispers sweet little nothings in our ears. He ... victory over Ahab and his Baal-worshipping pawns. In fact, God stamped His approval upon Elijah in such a way that all Israel knew he was ...
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David continued to succeed in everything he did, for the LORD was with him. When Saul recognized this, he became even more afraid of ... honouring this young man who had defended the name of their God. If there is a single statement that best describes David at this time in ...
... when we plan well, work hard, pray, pay our bills, drive the speed limit, pray more, have daily quiet times, are kind to others, and ... when things don’t turn out like you’d envisioned—when God’s plan is so very hard and nothing like you thought it would be? What do ...
