A Great Light
Take a moment away from all the hurry associated with Christmas and relight your candle by going to the Source!
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A Question Answered
Keep on asking questions of God but don't forget to listen to God's words directed toward you.
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Are you a vessel?
God has created different vessels for different purposes, but all are meant to hold the message of salvation.
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At The Start Of All Things
“Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of His grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace. Every day should be a day of...
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Chicken Eggs
Growing up, we lived in the country and my family had quite a collection of animals. We had turkeys, geese, ducks, chickens, and rabbits. I was given the daily responsibility of feeding them and collecting the eggs which the birds...
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Chili Crab
Has your spiritual growth become stagnant. Learn from the crab. Maybe there is a shell in your life that you need to shed!
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Christ, Born in Me
What difference does it make that Christ was born so long ago in Bethlehem, if he be not born in me?
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Cleaning Your Room
Our lives, like our bedrooms as teens, reflect on us. What passions and aspects of your personality does your life now reflect?
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False Predictions
As you start the New Year, listen to God. Don't listen to the voices of discouragement, but to the great encourager, the one who knew you before you were even born. The key to realizing God's plan for you, of release from whatever captivity you may be in, of restoration to God and his place for you is to seek Him with all your heart. When you do, you not only find him, you also find yourself!
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God is Good, All the Time
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life -your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life - and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God wants you to do it...
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Heroes?
Like the TV series "Heroes", God calls each of us to a journey of discovery to use the special abilities he has given us to save the world!
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Impossible?
God wants to do the impossible in your life and the first step toward that is for you to believe it can be done.
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In God's Hands
We must the same journey from isolation and despair with God's seeming lack of help - "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" to commitment to allow God to finish his will in us - "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit".
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It is Finished?
Jesus finished the work of perfect redemption for men. He completed what we could not even begin.
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New Shoes
This devotional on New shoes and Change could be easily adapted as an object lesson or children's sermon.
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Ordinary
Christmas reminds us that Christ has always brought joy to the ordinary, peace to the weary, and hope to the lowly.
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Paradise
Today you will be with me in paradise." (Luke 23:43) "Today" Jesus makes a huge promise to the sinner next to him on the cross. Today you will be with me in paradise. Immediately. Instantly. Now. Not tomorrow. Not in...
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Planning for Prosperity
In the Bible, Peter also spoke of things that will insure a Christian will be spiritually prosperous. Like the Chinese New Year, a little house cleaning and what we nourish ourselves with become important.
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Responding to Christmas
God wants to include each of us in His plan for the world. But how will we respond? When we look at the events of the Christmas story we can see a few possible responses. DOUBT - Zechariah (Luke 1:5-22)...
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Slow Leaks
There was a time when we all had a spring in our step and bounced into action when a spiritual goal was placed before us. But something has changed.
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The Incredibles
Sometimes we spend so much time identifying our spiritual gifts we end up not doing anything with them.
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The Musician
For half a lifetime he wandered the empty night, alone and hopeless, until a simple melody pierced the darkness and caught his attention. Making the melody was a young man, a musician, with a sensitive ear, and an even more...
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Thirst?
God hears your cries. He knows your thirst. And he offered himself as living water that you might never thirst again.
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Who's your Ninevah?
The life of Jonah is full of lessons for all of us. To explore these lessons yourself, or with the youth you work with, check out "A Whale of a Tale", my Bible Study curriculum based on the life of Jonah.
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Wile E Coyote
Like Wile E Coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons, are there things in life that you fanatically pursue with the reckless abandon of a half-crazed coyote?
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Would You Like to Hold Him?
Gather around the manger. Smell the hay. Don't worry about getting cleaned up. That's why Jesus came.
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