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If you found yourself near the end of your days, close to death, who or what would you most want by your ... didn’t do it sooner.
Devotional content taken from Good Morning, Lord...Can We Talk? by Charles R. ...
... 50 years ago, my parents were not convinced that Cynthia was the best mate for me. They were sincere, but on that matter, they were wrong. ... we should be faithful invented the family!
Excerpted from Day by Day with Charles Swindoll , Copyright © 2000 by Charles R. ...
... me. I didn’t want to face my problem. But at age 19, the wall crumbled. The mountain of excuses I had made over the years, justifying my situation, ...
... just not sure what to say? Most of us tend either to avoid the person or situation altogether or to rush in and say too much. The list below demonstrates some ways you can effectively support people in ...
... lingered in my head for more than an hour before I formed the words with my mouth. I suddenly listened to what Watts wrote over two ... problems.
It wears many faces—all sad. It crawls out from between the mattress and the springs in the morning saying, “I’m ...
As a rule I’m uncomfortable not knowing the whole story. I’m happiest when loose ends are double knotted and when ... picture. And my response to feeling vulnerable often comes from a place of fear and sends me on an emotional tailspin. I find it difficult ...
... Three suggestions come to mind as I think about living with the risks of grace and putting all this into balanced living.
First, ... who wouldn't want to be free, since we have been purchased from the horrors of bondage?
Grace is God's universal good news of ...
... grace rather carefully. An overall principle is woven into the words of verse 16:
Do you not know that when you present yourselves ... Select your friends carefully. Be smart.”
Taken from The Grace Awakening by Charles R. Swindoll. Copyright © 1990, ...
... 1:19–20
For I know that as you pray for me and the Spirit of Jesus Christ helps me, this will lead to my deliverance. For I ... filtering system, enabling us to separate what is essential from what is not.
Paul was hopeful, regardless of the uncertainties he ...
... one problem. It isn't always true . All of us have had the unhappy and unfortunate experience of doing what is right yet suffering for ...
The Bible doesn't hide this painful reality from us. In 1 Peter 2:20-21 (addressed to servants, by the way—see verse 18), ...
... put it bluntly, is an ungodly trait. God is not passive in the face of evil, nor is He indecisive.
The Psalms are full of powerful ... do, but they don't have their hearts in it.
Excerpted from Day by Day with Charles Swindoll , Copyright © 2000 by Charles R. ...
... Psalm 27:14
Let's look at that term wait . It is from the Hebrew verb kah-wah meaning "to twist, stretch." The noun form means ...
... large, impersonal, busy institution.
We are alienated from each other. Although crowded, we are lonely. Distant. Pushed together but uninvolved.
No longer do most neighbours visit across the backyard fence. The well-manicured front lawn is the modern moat that keeps ...
... starting point: knowing your child.
This is the most profound insight, the single most helpful secret I can pass on to you ... observation, diligent study, prayer, concentration, help from above, and, yes, wisdom. Notice I did not include in that list a high IQ ...
... and tell you what I do. First I remind myself early in the morning and on several occasions during the day, "God, You are at work, and ...
And then? Then (and only then!) I relax. From that point on, it really doesn't matter all that much what happens. It's ...
... that should be lasting and meaningful are sacrificed on the altar of the temporary and superficial.
The major fallout in such a ... need to call a halt to our throw-away culture.
Excerpted from Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom for the Way (Nashville: J. Countryman, ...
Read Hebrews 10:23
Hope is a wonderful gift from God, a source of strength and courage in the face of life's harshest trials.
When we are trapped in a tunnel of ...
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We sing "My faith looks up to Thee" ...until the medicine stops working, until the lights go out, until the bill comes due ... the enduring faith James is talking about.
Excerpted from Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom for the Way (Nashville: J. Countryman, ...
... in this world without rubbing shoulders with those driven by the world's desires. God calls very few to be monks in a monastery. So we must ... when the crowd seems so safe, so right.
Excerpted from Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom for the Way (Nashville: J. Countryman, ...
Read Psalm 62:5
Henri Nouwen called solitude..."the furnace of transformation." This doesn't refer to mere personal privacy for ... It is here He makes us aware of those things we try to hide from others.
Excerpted from Charles R. Swindoll, Wisdom for the Way ...