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Her voice was weak and fearful as she spoke to me over the phone. It was almost midnight, and she kept apologizing...but she was so ... their whereabouts and no promise of their return. She went from home to home, longing for the day when they would come back and want her ...
Read Psalm 90
Last fall one day at the church, I spotted a visiting gentleman who was shaking hands with a ... you do for a living?" I asked.
"Me? Well, I'm a farmer from back in the Midwest."
"Really? I guess I'm not surprised, since you've ...
... us faithfully, and who enduringly loved us. Thank You for the contribution of fine women all over this world who live lives dedicated to ...
In the name of the Saviour, we pray. Amen.
Excerpted from The Prayers of Charles R. Swindoll, Volume 2 , Copyright 2010 ...
... 15:15
Many folks eat their hearts out, suffering from the contagious "If Only" disease. Its germs infect every slice of life.
If ...
... 6:12
I used to bite fingernails right down to the quick. I’d rip off those babies just as soon as the first signs of ... to Him.
Make a commitment to begin breaking free from whatever sinful habit has you stuck. Be encouraged with every simple step ...
Read1 Peter 5:5–7
A prayer to be said When the world has gotten you down, And you feel rotten, And you’re too doggone ... now. Say it with me: H-E-L-P.
Devotional content taken from Good Morning, Lord...Can We Talk? by Charles R. Swindoll. ...
... say that all through this chapter, and I finally worked up the courage. My point? Don’t expect to understand everything that happens ... and you’ll be able to say, “Now I know!”
Taken from Great Days with the Great Lives by Charles R. Swindoll. Copyright ...
... God calls a servant, there is little room for negotiation. The most striking example of this is when God spoke to Abram, lifting him from obscurity and setting him on a course that would change human history.
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... late.”
How about “too many and too much”? That’s the way I’d describe our times. In a society overrun with overstatements, I ... tempted to say too much, just say that.
Excerpted from Come Before Winter and Share My Hope , Copyright © 1985, 1994 by ...
Read Matthew 20
The children worked long and hard on their little cardboard shack. It was to be ... As he stepped up, a burst of spontaneous applause arose from the audience. In characteristic modesty, Cairns stepped back to let the ... act small. Everybody act medium."
Such good advice from a clubhouse full of kids who, by the way, are pretty good at practicing ...
... much rich food. Too much emphasis on success, winning, being the biggest, and having the best. Too much comparison, commercialism, and ... and with all God has provided. Let’s work at breaking free from the chains of noise and addiction to stuff. Put all that down for a long, ...
... Read Hebrews 6:20
Human logic breaks down in crisis. The mystery is enormous, and it is the enormity of it all that calls for faith. ... God cannot lie. We will not lose. Your mate has walked away from you, an unfair departure—you will not lose, child of God. Your baby has ...
... 4:14–16
He was brilliant. Clearly a child prodigy, the pride of Salzburg, a performer par excellence. One of the most brilliant ... boasting is evil. (James 4:14-16)
What do we learn from this? First, life is brief . On most grave markers, there is a little ...
... it’s supposedly trivial...even cheap.
That view of the spiritual life, however, is deadly.
Be careful of this melodramatic impulse.
You don’t need “a miracle a day to keep the Devil away.”
Jesus won’t do the spectacular in your life hour by ...
... God Himself isn’t changing, nor is His Son. He “is the same yesterday and today and forever” (Heb. 13:8). Isn’t that a great ... year or a decade ago. Nor will He change one hundred years from now. But even though He is the same, His working is different. It stays ...
... of it boils down to simply having different values.
In the home a teen's values may differ from that of her parents. She is forming her own values system and it is being ...
... feelings of disappointment are painfully familiar. As I play the record of my memory, I hear several sad songs from different voices:
“I’m not happy in my work. When I got the job I ...
Someone has called the writer of 2 Corinthians “The Transparent Apostle,” for here, as in no other letter Paul wrote, the man ... his ministry in true, unveiled terms. The letter was written from a defensive posture because Paul’s apostleship was being questioned. But ...
There's just something about the name— Jesus . The Name exalted above every other. The Word. The long-awaited King, spotless Lamb, and great I Am. Christ, ...
“In the beginning…”
If you’re like most people, beginnings are important times in your life—your first day of college, the time you started a new job, or the day your child was born. Beginnings matter. Understanding our beginnings—where we come from—helps us understand something of who we are.
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