Guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. —Proverbs 4:23 Today won’t leave you as it found you. It will leave you better or worse—more congenial or more cantankerous, more caring or more insensitive, more judgmental or more tolerant. It will leave you with faith, hope, and love enlarged or diminished. What […]
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This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. —Psalm 118:24 The first half of today’s text belongs to God. He did the heavy lifting; birthed this brand new day, gift-wrapped it, and delivered it to your door. The second half of
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Set a guard over my mouth. —Psalm 141:3 Gossip insinuates that we are a cut above the person we’re trashing. It may make us feel superior, but it doesn’t make us superior. Jesus charged us to extract the two-by-four from our own eye before presumptuously reaching to
Do not slander one another. —James 4:11 Henry Ward Beecher received an anonymous letter consisting of one word: “Fool!” “I’ve received quite a few letters from people who forgot to sign their name,” Beecher said, “but this is the first one I ever got from someone who signed his name and forgot the
Elementary school. Sybil. Sybil was poor and cross-eyed. She wore homemade dresses and thick glasses. They called her Four-Eyes. The class bully got in her face and shouted, “You’re ugly, Sybil. Ugglllyyyy!” Kids laughed. Sybil cried. She was too timid to talk back; too hurt to fight back. She just cowered alone in the corner
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How great is the love the Father has lavished on us. —1 John 3:1 Infancy. Childhood. Adolescence. Through it all your parents loved you. Not because you were good. Not because you were obedient. Not because you were beautiful. Not because you were brilliant. But because you were
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Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you. —Psalm 50:15 You say: I can’t go on. God says: My grace is sufficient for you (2 Cor. 12:9). You say; I’m tired. God says: I will give you rest (Matt. 11:28). You say: I can’t do it.
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Do not judge, and you will not be judged. —Luke 6:37 Here are five resolutions that will cue you to make a U-turn when you catch yourself sloshing around in judgmental mud … 1. I resolve to remember that I
You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. —James 4:14 Fame has a short lifespan … Who was Harry Truman’s Vice President? Who was Dwight Eisenhower’s Secretary of State? Who won Super Bowl XXXII? Who was the Democratic Presidential nominee in 1988?
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Make it your ambition … to mind your own business. —1 Thessalonians 4:11 Each of us has God-given work to do. Paul spells it out in Ephesians … He chose us before the creation of the world (Eph. 1:4); He designed and assigned specific works for each of us (Eph. 2:10); He gave us
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