The importance of getting quiet each day

Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”  -Mark 6:31 Studies show noise affects human behavior. In one experiment carried out by psychologists, a student leaving a […]

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The world is watching

“Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.” -Proverbs 10:9 After his message one Sunday, the pastor of a church in London hopped on the trolley to head back home. He paid his fare, and the trolley driver gave him too much change. “It’s wonderful how God provides,” […]

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Finding God’s favor through perseverance

“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” -Philippians 3:14 Psychologist Martin Segilman of the University of Pennsylvania advised the MetLife insurance company to hire a special group of job applicants who, although they had failed a normal aptitude test, tested high on […]

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What’s your hope for today?

“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” -John 14:3 One night a young boy asked his mother a question we’ve all wondered, “Mother,” he said, “what’s it like to die?” His mother sat […]

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The redeeming freedom of Christ in your life

“But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” -Isaiah 40:31  When A. J. Gordon was pastor of a church in Boston, he met a young boy in front of the sanctuary […]

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Responding to God’s love for you

“Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.”  -Jonah 2:8 God’s redemptive work in the lives of His faithful people will naturally provoke worship. Author and pastor Leslie B. Flynn once told a story that illustrates this truth. An orphaned boy was living with his grandmother when their house caught […]

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Let heaven inspire you!

“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”  -Philippians 1:21 Pete and Tony were best friends and die-hard baseball fans. One day they were munching on stadium nachos at a game and Pete said, “I wonder if we’ll play baseball in heaven.” To which Tony replies, “I really don’t know.” Just […]

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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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