How to prepare yourself to face each day

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes fro m the mouth of God.” -Matthew 4:4 A story is told of a man who challenged another to an all-day wood chopping contest. The challenger worked very hard, stopping only for a brief lunch break. The […]

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The importance of physical and mental rest

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made fro man, not man for the Sabbath.” -Mark 2:27 In ancient Athens, Greece, a man one day noticed the great storyteller Aesop playing games with some small children. He laughed and jeered at Aesop, asking him why he wasted his time in a useless activity. Aesop […]

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Your most priceless possession

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.” -Matthew 13:44 Vincent van Gogh first began to experiment with impressionist techniques during his Parisian period, the time from 1886 […]

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You’re not a fool.

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” -1 Corinthians 1:18 Many of us came to faith at a time when it was respectable to be a Christian. But with each passing day in our culture it’s […]

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How to experience spiritual renewal

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is a consuming fire.” -Hebrews 12:28-29 There’s a story an American Lutheran bishop tells of visiting a parish church in California and seeing a stirring red and orange […]

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The best payback you’ll ever have

“But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.” -Luke 6:35 Georges Clemenceau was twice the prime minister of France, and played […]

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Do you hear creation’s song?

“How many are your works, Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.” -Psalm 104:24 A man and his three-year-old daughter were strolling through the park one hot summer day, when the little girl suddenly asked, “Daddy, what’s that sound?” With his little one at that age where every […]

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Who can you really trust?

“Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save. When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing. Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, hose hope is in the LORD their God.” -Psalm 146:3-5 In the early 15th […]

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Avoiding what hampers your heavenly focus

“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”      -Colossians 3:2 On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister became the very first man in recorded history to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. But within 2 months, John Landy eclipsed his record by 1.4 seconds. So on August 7, 1954, the […]

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Is your faith in circulation?

“As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” -James 2:26 Longtime chaplain at Dallas Theological Seminary, Richard Seume, once shared a powerful reminder of what makes true faith come to life. In Oliver Cromwell’s day, the British government ran out of silver for coins. Cromwell sent his men to […]

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