what I read from others
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We Are Far To Easily Pleased
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”…
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Robbed of True Self-Worth
“One of the tragic implications of this event (Adam’s rebellion) is that man lost his secure status with God and began to struggle with feelings of arrogance, inadequacy, and despair, valuing the opinion of others more than the truth of God. This has robbed man of his true self-worth and has put him on a…
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How to Beat Pastoral Burnout
“Ministry is a marathon – not a 50-yard dash. It’s tough. You’re in an invisible war where all kinds of forces are conspiring to keep you from doing what God wants you to do… Pastor, we need for you to last in ministry. The story of Elijah’s ministry burnout in Kings 19 gives us some…
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Getting The Honey
“We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him – but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration – we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.” – Albert E. Cliffe
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Are Monsters Beyond Forgiving?
“If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have…they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of…
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A World of Nice People
“A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world – and might even be more difficult to save.” – C. S. Lewis
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A Kiss Instead of a Lecture (Grace)
“You’re worried about permissiveness – about the way the preaching of grace seems to say it’s okay to do all kinds of terrible things as long as you just walk in afterward and take the free gift of God’s forgiveness… While you and I may be worried about seeming to give permission, Jesus apparently wasn’t.…
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A Sweet Aroma in The Midst of Trials
I loved a devotional as I enjoyed my morning coffee on the deck… It told me that in the midst of trials, our prayers are a still a sweet aroma to Christ. When I was in my deepest pit and called out to Him, it was sweet to Him! It wasn’t received reluctantly. My friend, it…
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A Sweet Aroma in The Midst of Trials
I loved this devo as I enjoyed my morning coffee on the deck… It tells me that in the midst of trials, our prayers are a still a sweet aroma to Christ. It tells me that when I was in my deepest pit and called out to Him, it was sweet to Him! It wasn’t…
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You Can’t “Put God On the Shelf”
Be Indifferent About the Stuff that Doesn’t Matter! “Our world is full of distractions away from God. Don’t let your heart become indifferent to His presence and power in your life. Jesus died to give you the life you could never have apart from Him—eternal life. And He will never, never leave you alone to…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 