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Enemy Lies: There's No Such Thing As "Sticks and Stones"

The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. – Psalm 119:130We can allow the names we call ourselves to define us. We can let the ...

Sing About It!

Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing about it.” — Numbers 21:17From the pen of Charles Spurgeon:The well in the wilderness at Beer was renowned due to ...

Love: What Can I Do for You?

It was a Saturday morning. When I lived in Haiti, that’s when I went to the open-air market to buy my food for the week. I was standing in the ...

Are You In The Game For God?

In football, each player toils at his job hoping to win his individual battles. Each player brings his own dynamic to the game: for some it’s about intimidation; for others ...

The Holy Spirit: God’s Interpreter

Why do some people consider the Bible intimidating or hard to understand?What do you do when you read something you don’t understand in the Bible?What we have received is not ...

Evangelism: Back to Basics

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to ...

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

As a kid I really enjoyed school. My favorite part of the day was recess, of course. I attended Park Avenue Christian school, and every afternoon at one thirty our ...

Full of Jesus

When Jesus Works a RoomWhen Jesus was physically here on earth, what would it have been like to be Mary or Martha or Lazarus or one of the disciples? What ...

Why Pray?

Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. — James 5:13The Act of PrayerPrayer helps me. When I pray, something freaked-out and dazed inside me finds a place to ...

A Living Sacrifice

Parents with older children had warned me about this project, the crowning glory of seventh grade, but I still wasn’t prepared for how much work it involved. Each student had ...

God’s Remedies: What God Did For Us After the Fall

And what did God do? First of all He left us conscience, the sense of right and wrong: and all through history there have been people trying (some of them ...

Come Away With Me

Come away with Me for a while. The world, with its nonstop demands, can be put on hold. Most people put Me on hold, rationalizing that someday they will find ...

Do Not Worry: One Day at a Time

READ: Matthew 6:25-34It’s easy to fall into the worry trap, especially in times of trial. We often get out ahead of ourselves and ahead of God as we attempt to ...

The Leap of Faith to Eternal Life

In October 1929, the Saturday Evening Post published a landmark interview with the great physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein.I find his response to questions of Jesus as a historical figure ...

Made Perfect Through Suffering

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us. — Romans 8:18I kept for nearly a year the flask-shaped ...

I Believe in the Holy Spirit

If we truly understood even for a moment what sort of Companion, Counselor, and Friend we have in the Holy Spirit, it would banish all thoughts of loneliness forever.If you ...

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