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THE RICHES OF RELATIONSHIPS
Every Christmas season, for more years than I can remember, my wife and I have sat down and watched, “It’s A Wonderful Life.” I always cry—during several spots—and still get a thrill when George Bailey’s…
Created 3 days ago
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BIG MOUTH
Our mouth is small in relation to the rest of our body, but it is disproportionately large in terms of its power. What comes out of our lips reveals what we are, and has an impact on what we become. The…
Created 3 days ago
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SENSE AND STUPIDITY
High School reunions are interesting. I recall going back to one of mine. You see the former cheerleader that every guy drooled over, and wondered now, years later, what happened? Or, there is that nerd…
Created 5 days ago
Proverbs 9:1 (HCSB), Proverbs 9:2 (HCSB), Proverbs 9:3 (HCSB), Proverbs 9:4 (HCSB), Proverbs 9:5 (HCSB), Proverbs 9:6 (HCSB), Proverbs 9:13 (HCSB), Proverbs 9:14 (HCSB), Proverbs 9:15 (HCSB), Proverbs 9:16 (HCSB), Proverbs 9:17 (HCSB), Proverbs 9:18 (HCSB)
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THE PURE LOATHING OF PERFECT LOVE
The words are arresting. They stop us in our tracks. There are things that God hates—seven are specifically named. This is unsettling. It is disturbing because we don’t like the word “hate.” We have had…
Created 6 days ago
Proverbs 6:16 (HCSB), Proverbs 6:17 (HCSB), Proverbs 6:18 (HCSB), Proverbs 6:19 (HCSB)
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THE GOOD LIFE
The good life—we all want it, but where do we find it? There are bookshelves full of the premises of self-help gurus who have written promises of what they consider the good life. There are talking heads…
Created 7 days ago
Proverbs 4:7 (HCSB), Proverbs 4:8 (HCSB), Proverbs 4:9 (HCSB)
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LASTING LOVE: How Lasting Love Will Endure
Weddings can be wonderful occasions, but a ceremony is not a marriage. Promises without performance are worthless words. I can still remember conducting a wedding for a dear friend’s daughter. It was…
Created 8 days ago
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LASTING LOVE: How Lasting Love Is Estabished
Can marriage survive? The assault by Satan on this first, God-given institution has been highly successful. Marriage is being shunned more and more, as couples just live together. Cohabitation has become…
Created 10 days ago
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THE PROMISE OF GOD'S PRECEPTS
The Bible is chock-full of promises. Many of those promises, however, are conditional. In such cases, keeping God’s precepts enables us to receive God promises. The best life is one which is in alignment…
Created 11 days ago
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Psalm 119:89
Psalm 119:89 (HCSB)
Lord, Your word is forever; it is firmly fixed in heaven.Created 12 days ago
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THE WEALTH OF WISDOM
Many pursue that which they will never achieve and even if they did attain it, they would only have that which has no enduring worth. That is the nature of this material universe. Scripture tells us that…
Created 12 days ago
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THE POWER OF GOD'S PRECEPTS
I read about a woman who was executed at the bloody hand of the oppressive regime of North Korea. What was her crime? Distributing Bibles! In China, Fa Zhou spent seven months in prison for having ninety-six…
Created 13 days ago
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COMMENCEMENT TIME
It is commencement time. In a few brief days, graduates from high schools, community colleges, universities and seminaries will march across a stage in cap and gown, will be handed a diploma and they…
Created 14 days ago
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HOPE AND CHANGE
The powerful presentation of the promise of hope and change loomed large in propelling Barack Obama into the Presidency of the United States. Many now wish that they had examined the nature of the person…
Created 15 days ago
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THE GLORY OF GIVING
Grudging givers do not bless the Lord, bless others, or receive a blessing themselves. Scripture says, “Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of necessity, for God…
Created 17 days ago
1 Chronicles 29:11 (HCSB), 1 Chronicles 29:12 (HCSB), 1 Chronicles 29:13 (HCSB)
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THE GREATNESS OF GOD
Theology is “the study of God.” It is a term that is simple to define, but impossible to exhaust. Even a man of such spiritual insight as David finds that such knowledge is beyond the limits of his thinking.…
Created 18 days ago
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THE WINNING TEAM
It is not always the best team that wins the championship. It is the team that plays the best together. A winning team is greater than its individual parts. No one wins a championship without gifted players,…
Created 19 days ago
1 Chronicles 23:1 (HCSB), 1 Chronicles 23:2 (HCSB), 1 Chronicles 23:3 (HCSB), 1 Chronicles 23:4 (HCSB)
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LIVING TRIUMPHANTLY
We have a tendency to want to bring the Bible down to the level of our experience, rather than elevating our experience to the level of the Bible. I once heard a preacher say that, for most, their Christian…
Created 20 days ago
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DON'T GET TOO BIG FOR YOUR BRITCHES
Perhaps you have heard this quote from Lord Acton, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” My Mama would phrase it this way, “He got too…
Created 21 days ago
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WORSHIP HIS MAJESTY
Today’s reading calls on us to worship the King of kings and Lord of lords. We bow at His throne and rejoice in His righteous reign. Psalms 97-99 focus our attention on the kingdom of God—His past sufficiency,…
Created 22 days ago
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TOWARD SUNSET
The shadows are lengthening in David’s life. He is headed toward sunset. All of us will come to that time. What will the last days of our journey bring? What will the last chapters of our story say? These…
Created 24 days ago
2 Samuel 23:1 (HCSB), 2 Samuel 23:2 (HCSB), 2 Samuel 23:3 (HCSB), 2 Samuel 23:4 (HCSB), 2 Samuel 23:5 (HCSB)
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THE RETURN OF THE KING
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were good friends. Each man, in his own right, was a literary giant. They were also professing Christians, and elements of Biblical truth were woven into the fabric of their…
Created 25 days ago
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CONSTRUCTING ACCORDING TO CODE
Building a new house isn’t just a matter of grabbing a hammer and nailing some boards together—that is, not if you want it to stand. Neither is building a life! Yet, that is what most people try to…
Created 26 days ago
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THE SCARS OF SIN
We can do some stupid things. Actions have consequences. As a teenager, we were riding sleds down a rough mountain road. The snow was packed and iced over—it was like an Olympic bobsled run! Somewhere…
Created 27 days ago
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DESPERATE FOR GOD
He had been there before. David retraces paths that he had traveled as a young man, on the run for his life from King Saul. Now, he is once more in peril—this time, from a rebellious son. The superscription…
Created 28 days ago
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RAISING A REBEL
I remember the first time I held my firstborn in my arms. I didn’t want to squeeze too hard—and hurt him. Neither did I want to hold him too loosely—and drop him. That is a tension that continues through…
Created 29 days ago
2 Samuel 15:12 (HCSB), 2 Samuel 15:13 (HCSB), 2 Samuel 15:14 (HCSB)
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THE PRODIGAL GOD
Most church folks are familiar with the story of the “Prodigal Son” which Jesus told. They have heard preachers focus on the lavish excess of the younger son, who took his inheritance and squandered it…
Created about 1 month ago
Psalm 103:11 (HCSB), Psalm 103:12 (HCSB), Psalm 103:13 (HCSB)
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Earned a Badge — Created 100 [Public] Notes
2012-05-03
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Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge
2012-02-24
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2012-01-13
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2012-01-03
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2012-01-02
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Psalm 24:1
Psalm 24:1 (NKJV)
The earth is the Lords, and all its fullness,Created 12 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-02-14
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1 Peter 1:3
1 Peter 1:3 (NKJV)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,Created over 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2010-12-31
