Little children always seem to want their parents’ attention. They’ll throw a ball or get on a bicycle and call out, “Mom, watch me!” or “Hey, Dad, watch this!” It warms their hearts to know their parents are paying attention to them.
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We all are deeply saddened by the tragedy of the Titan submersible craft with five people aboard. We hoped they somehow might have survived, but then we discovered they had been gone for some time, due what was described as a “catastrophic implosion.”
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It’s a real challenge to reach today’s culture. There was once a time when you could assume most people had a general idea of the Bible (if you referenced Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, Noah and his ark, or even Jesus Christ, they would have a sense of what or who you were referring to). Not anymore.
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Experts have said that walking can help keep you in good shape physically. Now, you won’t move as quickly as you would if you were running. But it’s a regulated motion that moves you forward gradually; slowly but surely. That is a picture the Bible often uses to describe the Christian life. It’s walking with God. And if we want to walk with God, then we must stay in harmony with Him. ...
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Bible commentator E.M. Bounds wrote, “Heaven ought to draw and engage us. Heaven ought to so fill our hearts and hands, our manner, and our conversation, our character, and our features, that all would see that we are foreigners, strangers to this world.
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If you were to ask a 33-year-old to describe the stage of life they’re in, they might say, “Well, it’s just beginning.” But at the age of 33, Jesus said, “It is finished.” He spoke those words from the cross, and in the original language, the word “finished” is “tetelestai,” a commonly used term in that time. It means, “It is completed,” “It is accomplished,” “It is done.”
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In the New Testament book of Acts, we find a bleak scenario in which James, one of the leaders of the early church, was arrested by King Herod and put to death. Then Peter was arrested, and it looked as though he would be executed.
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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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