Are you feeling reflective as we kick off 2023 about your life, your goals, your relationships? As the year spreads out before us, like a ...
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For most of my life, I was not really interested in prayer. Prayer seemed boring, honestly. You might think I wasn’t interested in prayer because I ...
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There’s something about one year ending and another beginning that encourages reflection on what life is really about. As we reflect on the previous year’s ...
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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: ...
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What are your New Year resolutions? We may have hopes of changing what we know we should, such as losing weight, exercising more, or eating ...
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Jess Keller was my uncle and one of my heroes of the faith. He was one of those Christians who demonstrated servanthood every day I ...
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Author Gordon MacDonald tells how a rebuke from a friend saved him—thousands of times over—from hurting others and making a fool of himself. He was ...
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Sin—the product of disobedience—is deceitful. We can even be mired in sin and yet unaware of our disobedience because of our cultural blindness. It is ...
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Something had to be done about those making a difference for the Lord, and for Peter, that meant jail. The Roman Empire was losing its ...
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Some believe that teaching total forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ will lead believers to sin more. But 2 Peter 1:9 says the opposite: We will sin more ...
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God does not intend for His Word to be subdivided, excerpted, and wrenched out of context. The Bible speaks with consistent authority and perpetual relevance ...
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Dr. Roger Birkman would often make this statement: “The reality of life is that your perceptions—right or wrong—influence everything you do. When you get a ...
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In our society of instant communication—cell phones, text messaging, etc.—we have lost the significance and meaning of words. We rarely think about the significance of ...
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You invest more than one-third of your life at work. Punch the clock, turn on the computer, start your engines at 8 a.m., rest a ...
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So what are you thinking about as this new year begins? Are you excited? Are you looking in the mirror and thinking about the new ...
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The Apostle Paul gave us the answer in the book of Romans. The main message of Romans is that the righteousness of God is available ...
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Warmest Christmas Greetings! It is a privilege for me to receive so many letters—even if at the same time, I bemoan the fact that I am ...
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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 ...
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