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| Oct 16, 2020
FAMILY. The place where principles are hammered out on the anvil of daily living. Where character traits are molded and shaped under the watchful eyes of moms and dads. The batons in this relay are many.
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| Oct 15, 2020
WHEN WE SUFFER FROM clutter-holic syndrome, our lives are marked by mediocrity, haphazardness, and putting out needless fires.
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| Oct 14, 2020
AS I WRITE THIS, the thermometer registers in the nineties. The air is still and heavy. The dog is panting at my feet, the sun is high, and the birds are silent and still.
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| Oct 13, 2020
Some people can’t say no to a salesman at the door. Others have the hardest time passing up a litter of free puppies.
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| Oct 12, 2020
THE PACKAGE ARRIVED SAFELY, the reminder "Fragile: Handle with Care" affixed to the front. Oh, it had a few scuff marks and a bent corner or two, but by and large, nothing was damaged.
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| Oct 11, 2020
AH, PREDICAMENTS . . . LIFE IS FULL OF THEM. Sometimes they are of our own making. Other times they mysteriously happen to us, apart from anything we caused.
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| Oct 10, 2020
AT LONG LAST I AM FINALLY discovering that that stuff about Rome not being built in a day is true. And speaking of Rome, Paul’s words to the century-one Christians who lived there are truer than ever.
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| Oct 09, 2020
NOBODY IS A WHOLE CHAIN. Each one is a link. But take away one link and the chain is broken.
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| Oct 08, 2020
WHAT DO THORNS REPRESENT IN SCRIPTURE? Prickly issues that steal our joy, confidence, and progress in our faith. Jesus' own words describe the menace of thorns to our spiritual vitality.
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| Oct 07, 2020
YOU CAN'T TURN ON the evening news without being inundated with painful reminders of the shocking disregard for God's moral law in our culture.
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| Oct 06, 2020
EVER GET THAT cattle-in-the-corral feeling? Sure you have. Whether it's sitting in morning traffic or standing in a long check-out line at Walmart-it's easy to feel as if you're only a blip on the radar of some cosmic force.
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| Oct 05, 2020
SNAP A TELESCOPIC LENS ON your perspective for the next few minutes. Pull yourself up close enough to see the real you.
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| Oct 04, 2020
IF WE HAD THE unusual opportunity to spend a day talking to the apostles, men like Paul, Peter, James, and John, I think they'd emphasize an oft-spoken discipline-but one that's rarely deployed in our lives: praying for others.
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| Oct 03, 2020
THERE IS NOTHING QUITE like the charm and personal touch conveyed in a handwritten note.
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| Oct 02, 2020
AS YOU WAVED GOOD-BYE TO your friends at church last Sunday, what mental darts were left stuck in the target of your thinking?
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| Oct 01, 2020
SLICE IT ANY WAY YOU WISH, ignorance is not bliss. Dress it in whatever garb you please, ignorance is not attractive.
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| Sep 30, 2020
LOST IN THE SILENT SOLITUDE of recent days, I have been impressed anew with the vast handiwork of our incomprehensible God.
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| Sep 29, 2020
We who live in this fast-paced jungle, this never-slowing treadmill of our high-tech society, have no idea how deeply entrenched we are in the rut of routine.
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| Sep 28, 2020
WHO IS IT THE LORD HAS used to model His message and challenge you to change, to shake off that tendency to settle for less than your full potential, to stretch and pursue and conquer new territory you once never dreamed possible?
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| Sep 27, 2020
AT A BAZAAR IN NORTHERN INDIA, an old farmer brought in a whole covey of quail. He had tied a string around one leg of each bird.
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