When You Feel Lonely…You Are Heard

Medical technology is amazing, isn’t it? For instance, motorized exoskeletons are helping paralyzed people walk. And special glasses are helping color-blind people see the colors ...

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Reasons to Celebrate

Every time you are tempted to allow something to get you down, remember your eternal guarantees.

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Called to Love

Weren't you just heartbroken over the events last week in Charlottesville? I turned on the TV to see the kind of hate that took my breath ...

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Guiding Your Child Through Grief

Our 5-year-old daughter, Dorothy, curiously peeked into the coffin at her grandpa's still form. The last time she'd seen him, the two had sat together ...

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From John’s Desk

Dear Friend, Market research is big business these days. Corporations spend billions of dollars trying to determine what consumers want and how to motivate them to ...

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Make A Leap Of Faith

There comes a time when you have to make a leap of faith.  Faith goes beyond logic.  When Jesus was with those tired, hungry people ...

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Work Ethic

Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate. – Proverbs 31:31

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With All You’ve Got

The road to abundant life comes with joy and heartache.

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All You Need is Love?

It was fifty years ago today… And America was tearing itself to pieces. The country still reeled from the loss of President Kennedy. His successor, President Johnson, ...

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God’s Gift for the Overwhelmed and Overcommitted

You might be overworked, overwhelmed, and overcommitted if: You can’t remember the last time you took a nap without feeling guilty… You’ve bumped into someone ...

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Our Life

Paul's marvelously rich expression indicates that Christ is the source of our life. You has He quickened who "were dead in . . . trespasses and sins."1 The ...

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Sin: It Starts With a Thought

Oscar Wilde said, “I can resist everything except temptation.” That’s the problem with temptation. It’s so tempting. But sometimes we unnecessarily put ourselves in the ...

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Life’s Storms

There is a scripture in the book of Nahum that is both scary and comforting at the same time. Chapter one, verse eight says, “His ...

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Forgiveness Is Biblical

In Mark 11:25-26 Jesus said, “Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive ...

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How to Stop Expecting Perfection

Not being a bumper-sticker freak, I find myself turned off by most of the stuff people announce on rear windows and back bumpers. But years ago ...

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How to Lose Friends & Irritate People

As you know, I’m writing a new book with the working title How to Speak Truth to People Who Don’t Want to Hear (or How ...

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