Are you missing your potential?

“Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.” – Hebrews 5:13-14 Leadership magazine once ran an article about the curious growth habits of sharks. As the article […]

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What makes you uncomfortable?

“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” – 2 Timothy 4:3 Whenever you go to a doctor for your annual check-up, he or she […]

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Do you look up to God?

“Be still and know that I am God.” – Psalm 46:10 The story is told of a British politician who took his 8-year-old daughter on a tour of London. They came to Westminster Abbey and the awesomeness of it struck the little girl. As she gazed at the towering columns and stirring beauty of the […]

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The importance of giving substance to your faith

“As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” – James 2:26 A young boy, on an errand for his mother, had just bought a dozen eggs. As he walked out of the store, he tripped and dropped the sack, breaking every egg he had bought. The sidewalk was a […]

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Living in the freedom Christ has given you

“Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.” – Galatians 4:6-7 A little boy visiting his grandparents was given […]

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The heartbeat of life

“No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.” – 1 John 4:12 A young man was once determined to win the affection of a beautiful lady who refused to even talk to him. He decided that the way to […]

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How to love others with the love of Christ

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” – John 13:34 In Ernest Gordon’s famous book Miracle on the River Kwai, he tells the story of captured soldiers who had been forced by their Japanese captors to labor on a jungle railroad. The […]

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Don’t let the pressure win

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” – John 16:33 The famous 19th century missionary to China, Howard Taylor, once shared some powerful words that apply well to the situation we’re facing in […]

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How to overcome fear in your life

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” – 1 John 4:18 Little 5-year-old Johnny was in the kitchen as his mother made supper one evening. So she asked him to go into the […]

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How you can avoid the trap of false teaching

“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.” – Matthew 7:15 Chuck Swindoll tells a story about how years ago a man went into a fried chicken place and bought a couple of chicken dinners for himself and his date. But instead of chicken, the […]

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