During World War II, Allied troops found themselves trapped in Dunkerque, France, facing certain destruction by the German army and most likely a Nazi invasion of Britain. King George called for a National Day of Prayer, and the churches of the United Kingdom were filled to overflowing as believers called on God to intervene.
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In 2011, an inventor presented his idea for a unique alarm clock on the television show “Shark Tank.” The clock, called Wake n’ Bacon, was designed to start cooking bacon just before the alarm went off so that its owner could wake up to the aroma of sizzling bacon.
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Sometimes we fail to understand how powerful compromise can be in our lives. No one falls away from God overnight. It’s something that happens over time. . . a slow, methodical process.
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When one of my granddaughters was little, she liked the word “more.” From her favorite food to the Bible stories that I told her, she always wanted “more.” Deep down inside, we all are like that. One of our favorite words is “more.” We always want more out of life. We want the newest, the latest, the freshest and the coolest. I think God has wired us that way, because ...
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One of the most well-known parables Jesus told, the parable of the sower, is about a farmer who went out to sow seed that fell on four different types of soil. Then Jesus explained that it was a picture of the different reactions people have toward God’s Word.
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Some people are running around today trying to get a direct revelation from God. They want the Lord to give them a word from Heaven: “Do this. . . . Turn right. . . . Turn left.”
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This may come as a shock to some, but Christmas is not about love, peace, harmony, and sipping hot cocoa with family around a crackling fire. Christmas is actually about conflict. It always has been—and it always will be.
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From the day we are born, we have trouble. And what we discover as we get older is that life is filled with lots of it. In fact, when we have a conflict-free day where there is no crisis—large or small—that is a very good day. Then there are those days when it seems like the bottom drops out. What could go wrong, does go wrong, and then even more ...
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Wouldn’t it be great if we could just pick up the phone and talk to God? In a sense, we can. We can talk to Him through prayer. Prayer is something that we all need to be doing. It’s a privilege and an adventure. And the Bible says that we should “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17 NKJV).
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Not long ago I watched an old movie called “The Dirty Dozen.” Lee Marvin stars as Major John Reisman, who recruited a group of prisoners for a special mission. Some of the men had been condemned to death, while others were serving life sentences.
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