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No question about it. King David remains among the brightest lights of the Bible. So significant was David that God set aside ... book of the Old Testament to cover David’s 40 year reign…from his highest pinnacle of achievement to his lowest valley of misery and ...
Moving isn’t easy…especially when we’ve lived in the same place for a long time. Besides all the packing, loading, unloading, and unpacking, we face the difficulty of ...
The regard with which we view ourselves is called our self-esteem. It is our ... develop this perception throughout our lives as it springs from our nature, is cultivated by our nurture, and fleshed out and expressed in ... every part of our being including our mental perceptions. The result is a distorted, false view of ourselves, others, and God. And since ...
... wondered what it is that causes some wanderers to return to the Lord? And though we pray constantly for loved ones who have wandered from the faith, why don’t they come back? Or if they do, it may take a long ...
... with monotonous regularity and increasing intensity. The church was still in its infancy when the battle began. Jude exposed the false prophets who twisted the teaching of ...
... even a few that make us chuckle! In his immortal work on the martyrs done in the sixteenth century, John Fox listed some of the epitaphs that appeared in ...
... slowly and carefully, through 2 Corinthians 11-13. List the hardships the Apostle Paul endured.
Try putting yourself and your own ... thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure
Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure upon me of concern for ...
On the first Easter morning, when the stone was rolled away from Christ’s tomb, hope dawned and grace shone brighter than it ever had. ... the monotony and troubles of daily life seem far removed from the miraculous impact of that glorious morning two thousand years ago. ...
Does Jesus’ arrival mean we can trash the Old Testament and the law?
Hardly! Jesus told us He came to fulfil the law rather than abolish it. He revealed that keeping excessive human ...
The aged Apostle Paul knew the importance of self-monitoring from his decades of ministry. That's why he told young Timothy, “Pay ... reason, Chuck Swindoll focuses on what we drag into ministry from our old nature generating unnecessary difficulties.
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Have the songs of the season left you tone deaf to the real tune of Christmas? It's time to saturate your senses with the melody ...
1 John appears to be a simple letter but is one of the most challenging of all the New Testament letters. Furthermore, it is complicated from the very beginning.
The first four verses, which serve as a preface to ...
If you aren’t Jewish, then you’re what the Bible calls a “Gentile.” Most folks who follow the Jewish Messiah, Jesus, are just that—Gentiles. And as Gentiles, most of ...
Have the songs of the season left you tone deaf to the real tune of Christmas? It's time to saturate your senses with the melody ...
We’ve reached the halfway point in Solomon’s journal. By now we have a pretty good handle on the man’s mental perspective as well as his method of pursuit. But something ... for a strange period in his life when he tossed restraint to the wind and acted out a role altogether unusual for a man of his heritage, his ...
Of all the sermons that have been preached, none is more famous, more profound, or more convicting than the one Jesus preached on the mountain. It is timeless, ever-relevant, and ... explained the essence of true righteousness. Weaving threads from the Old Testament through this new garment of truth, Jesus set forth ...
... one occasion, Paul admonished Timothy to station a sentry at the strong box of the faith, to defend the treasure vouchsafed to him (1 ... him—as did all who faithfully followed their teaching, from the first century to the 21 st century. In fact, everyone who ...
We often discover priceless gems in the strangest places—deep in the rugged, dark corners of the earth. This is so with the book of Ruth. Like an exquisite rose blooming in ...
When death nears, it is remarkable how important the shade of our sheltering friends becomes. Not even the Son of God wanted to ... of the Cross darkened His last days.
In this message from Chuck Swindoll, you will explore the second section of John 15, verses ...
All people have a desire to know the truth. Some look for truth by accumulating knowledge, while others turn to their feelings to define truth for themselves.
In the days of the early church, the Apostle Peter knew that Christians wrestled with questions about discerning right from wrong. So in 2 Peter 1:12–21, he pointed them to the source of divine ...
