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... when I have to wait for people or when our plans change at the last minute—but who wouldn't? It's just impolite to treat me like that. ... upset me.
OUR PROBLEM
Anger is a powerful God-given emotional response of displeasure. By itself it is neither right nor ...
Read Matthew 11:28–30
The definition reflects devastation:
Trauma: An injury (as a wound) to ... in a pressure cooker, we 21st century creatures understand the meaning of stress. A week doesn’t pass without a few skirmishes with ... stood sometimes strong, sometimes weak, as they watched God place a period before the end of the sentence on three of their ...
... Disease! Death! Pretty serious scene, isn't it? Yet that is the emotional environment in which we live. No wonder someone has dubbed this the "Aspirin age." Small wonder more of us are not throwing in the towel.
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... Psalm 46:1-2; Luke 12:7
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your ... and Your staff, they comfort me. (Psalm 23:4)
Lord God, fear threatens to overtake us, to hinder us from trusting You. We often ...
... boys of yours, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born here in the land of Egypt before I arrived. They will be my sons, just as Reuben and ... and heard his tender, wise words of blessing. “May God bless the nation as He blesses you.” What a moment! Perhaps Manasseh and ...
... you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord and not for human masters...It is the Lord Christ you are serving” ... became a mother at age 24 and it didn't take long to realize God had chosen to bless my husband and me with our daughter and we needed to ...
Read Job 12:16
Picture for a moment the barrenness and bleakness that happens in a life when compromise occurs. It ... that describes you at this very moment. You have ignored God’s warnings and pushed your strong convictions aside as you associated ...
... words without wincing:
Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was ... or read it online. There is no way to get around it; God's servants often become scapegoats.
This is true emotionally more ...
... himself friendly. (Proverbs 18:24, KJV)
Do you see the point of the proverb? To have friends we must be friendly. Friendliness ... doing some thing . The best overview of the wonder of how God designed you is found in Psalm 139.
A healthy attitude toward ourselves ...
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My tears flow endlessly; they will not stop until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees. (Lamentations 3:46–50)
When ... vivid memory or wrestling in prayer.
Did you know that God takes special notice of those tears of yours? Psalm 56:8 tells that He puts ...
... use when they text: GOML (Get Off My Lawn). BTW (Bring The Wheelchair). LMDO (Laughing My Dentures Out).
What makes little sense ... of his only child in a car crash. Yes, he has questions for God, but he has joy that circumstances can't limit. Those whose lives are ...
Did you know the Bible was written over at least a 1,500-year span and has dozens of ... And what significance does each book have as it relates to the whole? What major ideas are contained within each?
Find resources here on the books of the Bible that will add value to your personal study of the ...
Read 2 Samuel 6:13–14
The guy had listened to me talk during several sessions at a pastor’s ... Your theology is narrow, but you’re not rigid. You take God seriously, but you laugh like there’s no tomorrow. You have definite ... LORD with all his might. (2 Samuel 6:13–14)
When God’s Word was revered and held with conviction, there was dancing and ...
... once lived a man who became a Christian as an adult and left the security and popularity of his former career as an official religious leader to follow Christ. The persecution that became his companion throughout the remaining years of his ...
Read Numbers 27:12-23
Then Moses said to the LORD, “O LORD, you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Please appoint a new man as leader for ...
I grew up enjoying the childhood activity of follow-the-leader. Back in the Prairies, it was ... your own life. Because they are 24/7 witnesses of your every move, they can do the “scratch and sniff” test to see if you are for real. ... from me—everything you heard and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.”
Step 3: Challenge your children to lead ...
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“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
The answers we receive are all over the map. One youngster recently told me he ... truth.
We find it encouraging to think of ourselves as God’s servants. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be a servant of the King? But ...
Read Acts 20:22–24
The scene is familiar: a hospital lobby with all the expected surroundings...soft sofas and folded newspapers...matching carpets ... of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God. (Acts 20:22–24)
Paul absolutely refused to run when apprehension ...
Read Isaiah 53:2
My servant grew up in the LORD’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. ... Savior. Crushed and broken and bleeding, He pursued His God-ordained mission when He went to the cross for us.
No wound? No scar? ...
... 6:14, 8:11, Matthew 24:6-7, 11
For over an hour the other day I strolled down Nostalgia Lane with a September 4, 1939 copy of ... sold for $465 and best-selling books cost $2. Big news in the music world was Bing Crosby, whose records sold for 35 cents a platter. ...
