How God can use you to do the extraordinary

“When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. But since they could see the man who had been healed standing there with them, there was nothing they could say.” – Acts 4:13-14 […]

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Try again in Grace!

“Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.” -Acts 3:19 In 1879, Thomas Edison was fast at work on a crazy contraption called a “light bulb.” Once they worked out the kinks, it took a team of men 24 straight […]

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Building a deep dependence on God’s provision

“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”  -Matthew 6:26 The famous missionary Hudson Taylor knew what it meant to trust in God’s faithfulness. In his journal he wrote: Our […]

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Are you too easily satisfied?

“Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.” -1 Corinthians 3:1-2 Over 2,000 years ago, a young […]

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Are you living ready?

“So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.” – Matthew 24:44 After waiting over an hour for her date to arrive and pick her up, a young woman finally realized that she had been stood up. Frustrated and a little embarrassed, […]

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Avoiding the danger of overconfidence in yourself

“For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh…” – Philippians 3:3 When it comes to overconfidence, golf legend Arnold Palmer recalls a tough lesson he once learned in a tournament: “It was the final hole […]

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Where do you get your cues?

Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.” – Isaiah 8:20 A woman who had spent many weeks studying the life of Moses in her Bible exclaimed, “I know Moses so well that he doesn’t even look like Charlton Heston!” […]

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Two stances to take toward sin in your life

“The highway of the upright avoids evil: those who guard their ways preserve their lives.”  – Proverbs 16:17 “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” – Proverbs 28:13 A 1990 Subaru car commercial showed a Volvo heading toward a wall, and then, in slow motion, […]

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The dangers of hasty decisions

“The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.” – Proverbs 21:5 The photographer for a well-known magazine was assigned to take photos of a great forest fire. The problem was that smoke at the scene hampered him. So he frantically called his home office to hire a plane. […]

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Be wise in the eyes of the Lord!

“Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil.” – Proverbs 3:7 A successful businessman bought a yacht so he and his wife could retire in luxury. His wife, however, was nervous considering her husband had absolutely zero experience sailing. But after years of victories in boardrooms, the man was […]

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