It’s super important to not only know who we are but where our lives are headed. Without that kind of direction, we will often slog through life without ever accomplishing or becoming who God has called us to be. Someone once said that life without God is like an unsharpened pencil – it has no point.
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To be fruitful in life, to make a difference in God’s kingdom in everything we do. There undoubtedly will be hard times, times of turmoil, stress, and suffering. Even in these times, we want to be a “tree” whose leaves do not wither. Even if we’re not bearing much fruit at the moment, we want to remain vital, a “tree” in the mode of Psalm 1.
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A little girl at the beach was enjoying a bag of chips. As always there were a few seagulls milling around keeping their distance although interested in a free lunch….
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Much of our spiritual development happens through grace! Just as God’s grace has a justifying and sanctifying effect in our lives, through which we learn to seek to advance God’s kingdom agenda, children and marriages flourish in an environment of grace.
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Those old enough to remember the opening of “The Wide World of Sports” television program powerfully illustrated “the agony of defeat” with a painful ending to an attempted ski jump….
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Maybe more than any other event in history the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ illustrate this ancient spiritual battle and the high stakes it represents.
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A story is told of a famous violinist who was to perform at a concert hall of world renown. As he stood before the packed house that night and played…
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In many ways patience and kindness serve as a protection against temptations and wrongs as clothes do against cold. If you put on more clothes as the cold increases you will have the power to endure it because you have insulated yourself from it’s dangerous effects.
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Compared with the renovation God has in mind, our efforts to improve our own lives are as trivial as sweeping a warehouse slated for the wrecking ball. When we become God’s, the old life is over. He makes all things new. All He wants is the site and the permission to build.
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As a young boy Robert Babcock made a bomb out of some powder, he found in his father’s barn. He had a hard time getting it to go off, but…
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