Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. — Psalm 119:105 Anatoly Shcharansky, a dissident Soviet Jew, kissed his wife goodbye as she left Russia for freedom in Israel. His parting words to her were, “I’ll see you soon in Jerusalem.” But Anatoly was detained and finally imprisoned. Their reunion […]
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Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. — 2 Corinthians 4:16 Henry Durbanville wrote a book several years ago called The Best Is Yet To Be. In it, he argued that growing older isn’t something that should be dreaded, but embraced […]
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Do your best to come to me quickly, for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. — 2 Timothy 4:9-10 No treachery is worse than betrayal by a family member or friend. Julius Caesar knew such treachery. Among the […]
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Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. — 1 John 4:11 A small church congregation in rural Ohio met one Sunday evening to share prayer requests and praises with one another. Toward the end of their time together, a woman in her early 30s stood up and nervously […]
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Read MoreThe best way to discover God’s truth
The Israelites are stubborn, like a stubborn heifer. How then can the LORD pasture them like lambs in a meadow? — Hosea 4:16 Are you strong enough to face how mistaken many of your most cherished beliefs are? Well, here are a few things you may not have known: 1. Marie Antoinette never said, “Let them […]
Read MoreThe importance of remembering God’s provision
The men of Israel rushed out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, slaughtering them along the way to a point below Beth Car. Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far has the LORD helped us.” — 1 Samuel 7:11-12 The American painter, John […]
Read MoreHow to be a force for encouragement to others
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. — Ephesians 4:29 Old Eb was, like many of his breed, rather stingy with words. He said very little, and even when he spoke, […]
Read MoreHow to know you have eternal life
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. — 1 John 5:13 H. A. Ironside was once speaking with an elderly man who told him that he wanted to be sure of his salvation in Jesus Christ. […]
Read MoreHow to give with a cheerful heart
Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. — 2 Corinthians 9:7 A pastor once recounted how, as a child, his mother sent him to pick a quart of raspberries. Reluctantly he dragged himself to the berry patch. […]
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