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Read Psalm 119:127-128
The thing I have always appreciated about the Bible is that when great truth is ... are scars and a dark side to every life, we're not shielded from the Jonahs and the Samsons, from the pride of the King Sauls or the adultery of the King Davids.
We ...
Read Psalm 32:6
Never underestimate the place of prayer.
I'm convinced that one of the reasons we are so lax in ... want to draw near to the heart of God, you have to get away from the din, away from the confusion, away from the noise and distractions.
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Read Isaiah 55:8
God is the Potter; we are the clay. He's the Shepherd; we are the sheep. He's the Master; we are the ... to remake the clay into whatever they wish.
Excerpted from Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom for the Way (Nashville: J. Countryman, ...
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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 ... few occasions with only regret. Nothing good ever comes from a ministry devoted to pleasing people.
Rather than being a warrior for ...
... Ministries care very much for one another, and we care the same for you. After all, we are Insight for Living . We’re all ... to one another and most of our staff members are working from their homes, we feel close to you and to each other as we operate in ...
Read 1 Corinthians 11:28, 31
Thanks to the Word of God, we can list several marks of integrity that God would have us ... the lions' den. Remember, God's there, too!
Excerpted from Day by Day with Charles Swindoll , Copyright © 2000 by Charles R. ...
Dear friend,
Aren’t you glad someone shared the Good News of Christ with you in a way you could understand?
Maybe you ... how the death and Resurrection of Jesus enable us to cross from life without Him on earth to eternal life with Him. Each of us, I ...
... roots in Anglo-Saxon linguistic lore to merit a position in the ranks of Webster’s major reference work. So who cares about all that ... somebody they can lean on, talk to, laugh with, learn from, walk beside, and, mainly, hug. And chances are good those same grown-ups ...
... books.
Some people can’t say no to a salesman at the door. Others have the hardest time passing up a free puppy...or driving by ... rather than under them.
Devotional content taken from Come before Winter and Share My Hope by Charles R. Swindoll. Copyright ...
... He summoned his chief cup-bearer and chief baker to join the other officials. He then restored the chief cup-bearer to his former ... Hill, Penn.: Christian Publications, 1986), 137.
Taken from Great Days with the Great Lives by Charles R. Swindoll. Copyright ...
I joined social media while living away from home. I saw it as a way to connect with friends and family and show them ... I didn’t realize until later was how easy it is to allow the allure of online popularity and temptation of presenting a false self on ...
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No doubt many of us as kids heard remarks like that from our mom or dad. Maybe we had lied, played with matches, or been stopped for speeding in our mom’s car. Whatever the infraction, we all implicitly knew (and rightly so) that we should feel bad ...
... or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. (Ephesians 5:1-5)
Our Lord and Master, we ... order.
Purify us, Father. In the process, guard us from foolish pride and from a super-pious personality, which comes across as ...
Read Ephesians 5:1–2
Following the sixth day of creation, the Lord God deliberately stopped working. He ... day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation. (Genesis 2:1–3)
Scripture teaches that ...
... you will not stand alone when outnumbered. Apart from a personal and vital faith in Jesus Christ, it is impossible to wage a winning effort against the system called “the world.”
Trying to overcome the powerful magnet ...
Read 1 Peter 5:1-4
If we hope to demonstrate the level of excellence modelled by Jesus Christ, then we’ll have to come to ... God has given us an avenue of escape. It’s called a birth from above. And not until we experience a spiritual rebirth will we submit to ...
... with a businessman who runs his own company. As we talked, the subject of wisdom kept popping up in our conversation. So I asked, "How ... to know each other rather well.
It was then I quoted from the first chapter of James: "When all kinds of trials and temptations ...
Dear friend,
My dad tossed me the keys, “Tell you what, Son. You can have the car for two hours all on your ... by grace? I mean really set free—not just free from the eternal penalty of sin but free to live and be yourself on this earth? ... and feed themselves spiritually. They’re unshackled from the tyranny of legalism. They’re able to operate their lives ...
... He wants me to use my time wisely, He is more concerned with the development of my character and the cultivation of the qualities that make ... correctly to the sting of irritations.
Excerpted from Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom for the Way (Nashville: J. ...
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I’ve always benefited spiritually by considering the character in individuals like David, who at key moments in history, chose ... The question is: Are you?
Devotional content taken from Good Morning, Lord...Can We Talk? by Charles R. Swindoll. ...
