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• Disappointing Results

• Beware Playing the Politics Game: Please God, Not People

• Anguish in the Garden

  Judging from the ancient olive grove that can be seen today on the Mount of Olives, the garden of Gethsemane must have been a quiet, fragrant, and lovely place. Scholars of the New Testament believe Jesus and His disciples must have arrived there somewhere between midnight and one o’clock in the morning.

• Optimism

  Vision—the one essential ingredient for being an original in a day of copies—gets lost, overwhelmed by the odds. Too bad! We start focusing on the trouble. Then we start comparing the odds. The result is predictable: We become intimidated and wind up defeated.

• Commitment

  People of excellence are those who see through the clutching greed of our times—people who have declared their undivided allegiance to Christ's message, people who have humbled themselves to Christ's sovereign authority.

• Biblical Resources - Insight for Living Ministries

• Self-Control: Meeting Our Impulses Head-On

• Fallibility, Part Two

  God's Word is infallible; people are not. Yesterday, we noted that this point is particularly underscored in the realm of leadership. We naturally seek after ministers we can respect and follow. And then—glory!—we come across some whose lives are admirable.

• Peace in Your Home: Using Your Words to Build Up Your Children

• The Integrity Assault