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Can I get away with stuff?
Don't ask, "Can I get away with it?" Your freedom in Christ is so that you can serve others.
Created 6 months ago
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Balancing Knowledge With Love
How do you balance knowledge with love? Pray, "Lord show me how to use the knowledge you have given in love to others." For example, when we KNOW someone in wrong but they won't listen, we often get in…
Created 9 months ago
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At your loneliest moment...
When you feel lonely and that God has abandoned you: 1. Pray - be totally honest about the situation with God 2. Praise - God's required reaction to suffering. Praise exchanges the loneliness of suffering…
Created about 1 year ago
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The Divisions in the Corinthian Church
The divisions within the Corinthian Church: The "Paul" Party emphasized freedom and liberalism. We can sin as much as we want because we have Jesus. The "Apollos" Party empasized intellectualism. He was…
Created about 1 year ago
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Lucado
Great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation. It wasn't logic that caused Moses to raise his staff on the bank of the Red Sea. It wasn't medical research that convinced Naaman to dip seven…
Created about 2 years ago
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Lucado Commentary
Have you seen the painting The Angelus by Jean-Francois Millet? It portrays two peasants praying in their field. A church steeple sits on the horizon, and a light falls from heaven. The rays do not fall…
Created about 2 years ago
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Lucado Commentary
Our problem is not so much that God doesn't give us what we hope for as it is that we don't know the right thing for which to hope. (You may want to read that sentence again.) Hope is not what you expect;…
Created about 2 years ago
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Lucado Commentary
What do we do with…worries? Take your anxieties to the cross—literally. Next time you’re worried about your health or house or finances or flights, take a mental trip up the hill. Spend a few moments…
Created about 2 years ago
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Lucado Commentary
There is no language God will not speak. Which leads us to a delightful question. What language is he speaking to you? I’m not referring to an idiom or dialect but to the day-to-day drama of your life….…
Created about 2 years ago
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Lucado Commentary
How do you simplify faith?... Simplify your faith by seeking God for yourself. No confusing ceremonies necessary. No mysterious rituals required. No elaborate channels of command or levels of access.…
Created about 2 years ago
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Lucado Commentary
Seems like the only common bond between [Jesus' not-so-great grandparents] was a promise. A promise from heaven that God would use them to send his son. Why did God use these people? Didn't have to.…
Created about 2 years ago
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Lucado Commentary
Use your uniqueness to take great risks for God! If you’re great with kids, volunteer at the orphanage. If you have a head for business, start a soup kitchen. If God bent you toward medicine, dedicate…
Created about 2 years ago
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Lucado Commentary
Apart from God, "the heart is deceitful above all things" (Jer. 17:9 NIV). A marriage-saving love is not within us. A friendship-preserving devotion cannot be found in our hearts. We need help from an…
Created about 2 years ago
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Lucado Commentary
Aging is a universal condition. But the way we try to hide it, you would think it was a plague! There are girdles which compact the middle-age spread for both sexes. There are hair transplants, wigs,…
Created about 2 years ago
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Lucado commentary
The summer before my eighth-grade year I made friends with a guy named Larry. He was new to town, so I encouraged him to go out for our school football team…. The result was a good news—bad news scenario.…
Created over 2 years ago
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Lucado commentary
Over a hundred years ago, a group of fishermen were relaxing in a Scottish seaside inn. One of the men gestured widely and his arm struck the serving maid's tea tray, sending the teapot flying into the…
Created over 2 years ago
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Lucado commentary
You have the ability, with your words, to make a person stronger. Your words are to their soul what a vitamin is to their body. Do not withhold encouragement from the discouraged. Do not keep affirmation…
Created over 2 years ago
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Lucado commentary
Why did Jesus grow weary in Samaria (John 4:6), disturbed in Nazareth (Mark 6:6), and angry in the Temple (John 2:15)? Why was he sleepy in the boat on the Sea of Galilee (Mark 4:38), sad at the tomb…
Created over 2 years ago
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Lucado commentary
The supreme surprise of God’s love? It has nothing to do with you. Others love you because of you, because your dimples dip when you smile or your rhetoric charms when you flirt. Some people love you…
Created over 2 years ago
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Lucado Commentary
Do you really think you haven’t done things that hurt Christ? Have you ever been dishonest with his money? That’s cheating. Ever gone to church to be seen rather than to see him? Hypocrite. Ever broken…
Created over 2 years ago
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Lucado Commentary
You have a ticket to heaven no thief can take, an eternal home no divorce can break. Every sin of your life has been cast to the sea. Every mistake you've made is nailed to the tree. You're blood-bought…
Created over 2 years ago
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Lucado Commentary
As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release your foe from your hatred, then the prisoner is released and that prisoner is…
Created over 2 years ago
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Lucado Commentary
You have leaves to rake. A steering wheel to grip. A neighbor's hand to shake. Simply put, you have things to do. So does God. Babies need hugs. Children need good-night tucks. AIDS orphans need homes.…
Created over 2 years ago
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Lucado commentary
Christ in Me by Max Lucado Like Mary, you and I are indwelt by Christ. Find that hard to believe? How much more did Mary? No one was more surprised by this miracle than she was. And no one more passive…
Created over 2 years ago
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Lucado commentary
A Home for Your Heart by Max Lucado I only ask one thing from the LORD. This is what I want: let me live in the LORD's house all my life. — Psalm 27:4 I'd like to talk with you about your house. Let's…
Created over 2 years ago
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