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... grows within us when we refuse to get alone [with God] and examine our own hearts, including our motives.
As our lives begin to pick up the debris that accompanies a lot of activities and involvements, we can train ...
... you know: "A joyful heart makes a cheerful face, but when the heart is sad the spirit is broken" (Proverbs 15:13).
We're not talking about a ...
Read Mark 10:45
God's true servant is like the Lord Jesus, who came not "to be served, but to serve, and to give His life ...
Pride wants strokes—lots of them. It loves to get the credit, to be mentioned, to receive glory, to have people ooh and ahh. ...
Read Esther 9:28
The Lincoln Memorial. The Vietnam Memorial....
Memorials are places provided for us to stand and be quiet, to reflect, and to pass on to the next generation the roots of a nation's heritage. They give the present ...
Read Psalm 89:15
Contrary to popular opinion, God doesn't sit in heaven with His jaws clenched, His arms folded in ... His brow.
He is not ticked off at His children for all the times we trip over our tiny feet and fall flat on our diapers.
He is a ...
... on having its own way, it is terribly difficult to cultivate the right attitude toward authority. The "QUESTION AUTHORITY!" mentality is so ...
Adulthood . A rebellious life must be crushed by God when He regains control.
And take it from one who experienced it and ...
... 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 ... has been termed the "exchanged life."
As we wait on God, our weakness is exchanged for His strength.
Strength and courage are ...
... brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. Maybe the situation towering over you involves conflict in your family, an addiction, ... break through your walls.
Delve deeper into the ways of God in this study of Joshua 6 as Pastor Chuck implores us to turn our ...
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Clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Therefore humble yourselves under the ...
... starting point: knowing your child.
This is the most profound insight, the single most helpful secret I can pass on to you ... want to know, and if you're willing to invest the time, God will honour your efforts. He will enable you to know your child.
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Read Psalm 32:7
Providence . We toss the word around. But have you ever analyzed it?
It comes from the Latin, ... and you have "seeing ahead of time," which is what Almighty God does. He sees the events of life ahead of time—something that we of ...
Read Proverbs 4:7
The good life—the one that truly satisfies—exists only when we stop wanting a better one.
It is the condition of savouring what is rather than longing for what might be. The ...
... Proverbs 1:8; Colossians 3:18-20
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one's youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of ...
Read Matthew 6:19–21
I once read that the average American is exposed to about three hundred advertisements a day. Today that number has increased many times over.
The Internet article from which I read that fact was cluttered with advertisements, most of them with little interest to the reader. Pop-up ads, brash banners, and flashing digital attractions all ...
... who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets.
There was a Cabinet meeting in London during the darkest days of the Second World War. France had just capitulated. Prime ...
Read 2 Timothy 4:9-13
If your found yourself near the end of your days, close to death, who or what would you most want by your ... I once attended to and perhaps even worried over through the years means very little now that I’m in my eighth decade. In those times ...
... ever see you sick or in prison and visit you?’
“And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and ...
... 15:15
Many folks eat their hearts out, suffering from the contagious "If Only" disease. Its germs infect every slice of life.
If ... he would ask me out.
If only I had more friends.
The list is endless. Woven through the fabric of all those words is a sigh that ...
... 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 ... our lives can lead to greater understanding and harmony in the home, marriage, church, and workplace. The following Values Inventory has ...
... impersonal age. With cell phones and gadgets ruling the day, kids’ eyes glued to tablet screens, and endless hours being spent by ... out and embrace. And release and rely.
Especially in God’s family.
In other words we must....
Love each other with ...
