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Spiritual Growth In Easy Times
Read more: Spiritual Growth In Easy TimesSometimes the storms of life cause a faith to crumble away. When Jesus talked about storms, he describes them as a testing, a proof as to whether we’ve built our house on the rock or on sand. In Jesus’s analogy, what you do before the storm matters. It matters a lot.
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Take Your Medicine
Read more: Take Your MedicineWhat’s the biggest problem in your life? If you had a guarantee— an absolute 100% guarantee— that following a certain course of action would eliminate your problem after a year, but that following that course of action for a year would be pretty miserable, would you do it? Would you take the medicine?
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Barak — A Reluctant Leader
Read more: Barak — A Reluctant LeaderIt is not easy to be the leader. Doesn’t the king lament that fact in Shakespeare’s Henry V? When plans fail, the leader gets all the blame, and even when he leads well, it’s usually others who benefit the most. The leader still has the pressure of maintaining and even building on any success.
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Carrying On When We Don’t Understand
Read more: Carrying On When We Don’t UnderstandWe can always think of some tragedy horrible enough that it just doesn’t seem fair for God to allow Satan to take it that far.
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Persecution
Read more: PersecutionWhether the persecution you and I face is great or small, Jesus understands. He was persecuted too. He was put to death because he was popular, his influence was growing, and his teachings didn’t fit the cultural narrative.
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Walls Of Protection
Read more: Walls Of ProtectionWhen the Bible uses the wall-of-protection metaphor, it’s talking about defenses against Satan and his arrows. Now there’s someone who never approaches with any good intent, yet he’s so good at giving the appearance of an ally.
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Thoughts On Heaven From A Ten-Year-Old
Read more: Thoughts On Heaven From A Ten-Year-OldWhat will heaven be like? It’s natural that kids imagine heaven as a place where you have everything you want, just the way you want it.
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Every Thought Captive
Read more: Every Thought CaptiveTurning in one’s thought life to God is not easy. We don’t want to give up that kind of freedom. We want to control our own lives, including our thoughts. The problem is, our thoughts begin to control us.