TAKE UP YOUR CROSS

Take Up Your Cross By Max Lucado The phrase “take up your cross” has not fared well through the generations. Ask for a definition, and you’ll hear answers like, “My cross is my mother-in-law, my job, my bad marriage, my cranky boss, or the dull preacher.” The cross, we assume, is any besetting affliction or [...]

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DAYS OF HEAVEN ON EARTH

Days of Heaven on Earth by A.B. Simpson The secret of a sound body is a sound heart, and the prayer of the Holy Spirit for us is that we may prosper and be in health, even as [our] soul prospereth (3 John 2). We find Paul in his Letter to the Philippians expressing a [...]

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NEVER-ENDING LOVE

Never-ending Love By A.W. Tozer Meister Eckhart said that God must love if He is to remain God. Were He to stop loving us He would lose His Godhead. Such expressions as “if God is to remain God” and all others like them are in one sense ridiculous, for God can never cease to be [...]

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GETTING RID OF UNNECESSARY BAGGAGE

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THE VALUE OF LONELINESS

THE VALUE OF LONELINESS By R.T. Kendall In May 1984 Billy Graham spoke at Westminster Chapel. His subject was “loneliness.” He took his text from a strange verse; Psalm 102:6, in the King James Version, in which the psalmist likens himself to an owl in the desert. Graham definitely hit a nerve! There are so [...]

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BEING HOLY IN ALL WE DO

Being Holy In All We Do By A.W. Tozer It is the privilege of every Christian to live so fully in God that he never gets out of the experienced Presence for one moment. When we have so learned to live in God and to experience His continual Presence, everything in our lives becomes spiritually [...]

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RUN TOWARDS THE ROAR

Run Toward the Roar By Fellowship of Christian Athletes Ready: “Be sober! Be on the alert! Your adversary the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour.” -1 Peter 5:8 Set: A while back, a friend of mine gave me a small book called “Overcoming Intimidation” by Keith Shealy. [...]

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PEACE FOR ANXIOUS DAYS

Peace for Anxious Days By Max Lucado When my daughters were single-digit ages—two, five, and seven—I wowed them with a miracle. I told them the story of Moses and the manna and invited them to follow me on a wilderness trek through the house. “Who knows,” I suggested, “manna may fall from the sky again.” [...]

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RESPONDING TO GOD’S LOVE

Responding to God’s Love By Dr. Charles Stanley John 3:16 God has to be true to Himself. People are foolish to entertain the hope that He will ignore justice and sacrifice holiness in order to allow unbelievers into heaven. Living a mostly moral life will not satisfy a righteous Judge. As much as the Lord [...]

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WHAT WE REAP DEPENDS ON WHAT WE SOW

What We Reap Depends On What We Sow By A.W. Tozer We may sow to the flesh if we will. There will be no interference from above. Thus to sow is our privilege–if we want to reap the harvest of corruption which must inevitably follow, a harvest no man in his right mind could deliberately [...]

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BORN TO WIN

BORN TO WIN I have been reading a book by Zig Ziglar on the reality that each individual was born to win. In the opening chapter Zig Ziglar makes this incredible statement, “You were born to win, but to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare [...]

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NO GREATER LOVE

No Greater Love By Charles Stanley John 15:12-14 Perhaps the most intense love and protective instinct in the experience of mankind is that of parents toward their children. There is little that most mothers or fathers wouldn’t do for a baby. If a truck posed a threat to the little one, it wouldn’t surprise us [...]

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