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The Missing Piece
(506 Reads)
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The Missing Piece
I remember reading Curious George Goes to the Hospital when I was a child. The man in the yellow hat is unable to finish his puzzle because the impish monkey, who of course represents children everywhere, has accidentally swallowed the missing piece. Being a single man who is just a little bit too invested in his monkey (and not enough in his wardrobe), he rushes George to the hospital. At the taxpayers’ expense, mind you. Not to mention violations of the hospital health codes. Apparently no one on the hospital staff even notices the difference between a monkey and a child, which is somewhat alarming.
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Get in the Game
(317 Reads)
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Get in the Game
When I was young, I was one of those LLBW’s (Little League Bench Warmers). Sure, I was on the team, but I played so rarely that even my baseball glove would atrophy. It was the same in church; I was in the building, but as a spectator rather than an active participant. Now I am honored and humbled to know that God loves us and wants us to be active players on His team.
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Take Time to Get Dressed
(352 Reads)
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Take Time to Get Dressed
I’ve been tempted to do lots of things—but one thing I have never been tempted to do is leave the house naked. I am sure that this comes as a great relief to many people, especially those I work with, but if we were to conduct a poll I have a strong suspicion that I am not alone when it comes to my penchant for dressing every day.
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Created for Good Works
(340 Reads)
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Good Works Shine to the World
Good works are to be an important part of each Christian’s life; in fact, God says He created us for good works.
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Take Off the Grave Clothes
(1126 Reads)
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Take Off the Grave Clothes
God’s Word tells us that aside from accepting Jesus Christ, everyone is dead because of his or her sin. It may be hard to accept this as reality, especially since the unsaved people are clearly walking about, eating, drinking, and doing all the things that living people do. Nevertheless, the spiritual reality from God’s perspective is that without Christ, we are all as good as dead. This is because all mankind has sinned, and the spiritual law that God established when He set up the universe is that the consequence of sin is death.
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Transformation - A Personal Journey
(1503 Reads)
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Transformation--A Personal Journey
The older I get as a Christian and the more I read the New Testament, the more clearly I see that we Christians must pay serious attention to how we think and act. This is a shift in my understanding from a couple of decades ago, when I thought that the doctrine I believed was of supreme importance, and how I behaved came in a distant second in God’s eyes. I have now come to believe that we must be very concerned about both doctrine and practice.
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Let Your Light Shine
(1129 Reads)
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The flicker of the nighttime stars has intrigued mankind since the beginning of his time on earth. The nighttime display of lights captures our imagination as we create imaginary connections and shapes from the many twinkling points of light. God tells us that on the third day of creation He set “lights in the expanse of the sky to separate day from night” (Gen. 1:14a) and also to serve “as signs to mark seasons and days and years” (Gen. 1:14b). Despite the loss of the ancients’ wisdom in the divine story portrayed overhead, many of us sense that a prophetic narrative is being told in the ever-changing cosmic cinema above. Even in this age of massively powerful telescopes and technical scientific instruments, scientists have still not been able to fully understand many of the forces that cause the cosmos to act as it does. Now that we can see immense stellar distances, we are even more enthralled at the scale of the universe, the diversity of objects, the radiance of the many celestial bodies, and the majesty of it all.
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I Don’t Feel Like It!
(1221 Reads)
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Maybe it’s true for you like it is for me, that many of the things in life that I know I should do I just don’t do because I don’t feel like it. Although there are numerous things in my life that I could use as an example, food and exercise is something that most people can relate to. In my case, I frequently eat more of the foods I shouldn’t eat, and less of the things I should. I have disciplined myself to exercise on a regular basis, but I still find myself too often not really “feeling like doing it.” Of course I like the results, but sometimes the yummy chocolate chip cookie wins the wrestling contest in my mind between tantalizing my taste buds or my desire for a smaller belt size.
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Reflecting God's Light
(888 Reads)
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Jesus said, “You are the light of the world” (Matt. 5:14). We believers are to be lights that shine in the world and dispel the darkness. However, like most of the things that are stated in the Bible, we understand them much better if we understand them in the context of the whole scope of Scripture. Believers are lights, but it helps us keep that in proper perspective when we realize that our light is derivative—we get it from God. We do not originate the light, we reflect the light.
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For anyone who has been blessed with the joy of parenthood, especially if you are raising multiple little ones, you soon learn that parents must set aside periods of time when you and your spouse can be alone together. Although children may believe that the universe was created to cater to their every desire, most parents know that they need to find some time away from their cute little clouds of chaos, otherwise their eyes have a high probability of becoming permanently fixed in the crossed position. For my wife Lori and me, we often find the best time for our “cone of silence” is early in the morning, usually well before our munchkins rise. Our almost daily ritual of prayer, Bible reading, rich coffee or tea, and breakfast with each other is something we tend to protect like a ravenous pit bull standing over his T-bone steak.
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The Exchanged Life
(1047 Reads)
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Most Christians rejoice when they learn that through Jesus’ sacrificial death they receive the complete forgiveness of their sins. At the moment anyone confesses Jesus as his Lord and believes in his resurrection he receives the gift of holy spirit and a great exchange takes place. The essence of this remarkable exchange is that a person’s sins are transferred to Christ, and in return his righteousness, which is the righteousness of God, is transferred to the person.
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In Christ – Our Union with Christ
(1142 Reads)
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The Exchanged Life
The “Great Exchange” is a phrase that describes the exchange that occurs in people’s lives when they become Christian. Before our New Birth we were sinners in the eyes of God, without holy spirit, and without hope.[1] However, in the instantaneous occurrence of the New Birth, the sinner undergoes a change, in fact, an exchange. Jesus takes the sinner’s sin, while the sinner gets Jesus’ righteousness. Also, Jesus takes on himself the penalty for the sinner’s sin, which is death (something that he already experienced), while the sinner gets the reward for a sinless life, which is everlasting life.
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The ABC’s of God (Lessons from my children) Let There Be Light
(996 Reads)
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Darkness suddenly swallowed up the room as though we had just been devoured by a mammoth beast. We sat still in his cavernous belly and waited for the monster to stir. I blinked my eyes to pierce the darkness, but in the thick silence my eyelashes sounded more like the broad, flapping wings of a pterodactyl. Someone's stomach growled and we jumped out of our skin. "The power went out," someone explained, and like typical adults we laughed our way out of our hole of humiliation. After blindly groping my way to the kitchen, I flipped on the useless light switch and pretended I was merely confirming the fact that we were indeed without power. We called the power company to report the outage, not because we couldn't really survive without electricity, but we were all secretly petrified of darkness. Adults spend so much time trying to encourage children not to be afraid of the dark, when sometimes we're merely trying to convince ourselves.
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Figures of Speech: Keys to Effective Communication Idiom
(1425 Reads)
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The ability to communicate with words is one thing that sets mankind apart from all other creatures. God is the Author of language, and no one has ever used language as precisely as God does in the Bible, including His use of figures of speech, of which there are more than 200 varieties in Scripture.[1] When most people say, “a figure of speech,” they are speaking in general terms of something that is not true to fact. However, genuine “figures of speech” are legitimate grammatical and lexical forms that add emphasis and feeling to what we say and write. In the Bible, God uses figures of speech to emphasize things that He wants us to see as important. Many people who read the Bible never think to ask themselves, “How do we know what God wants emphasized in His Word?” God uses figures of speech to put emphasis where He wants emphasis, so it is important that we recognize and properly interpret the figures of speech in the Bible. Knowing the figures of speech God uses in the Bible helps us to understand the true meaning of Scripture and enables us to more fully enjoy its richness.
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Figures of Speech: Acrostic
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The ability to communicate with words is one thing that sets mankind apart from all other creatures. God is the Author of language, and no one has ever used language as precisely as God does in the Bible, including His use of figures of speech, of which there are more than 200 varieties in Scripture.[1] When most people say, “a figure of speech,” they are speaking in general terms of something that is not true to fact. However, genuine “figures of speech” are legitimate grammatical and lexical forms that add emphasis and feeling to what we say and write. In the Bible, God uses figures of speech to emphasize things that He wants us to see as important. Many people who read the Bible never think to ask themselves, “How do we know what God wants emphasized in His Word?” God uses figures of speech to put emphasis where He wants emphasis, so it is important that we recognize and properly interpret the figures of speech in the Bible. Knowing the figures of speech God uses in the Bible helps us to understand the true meaning of Scripture and enables us to more fully enjoy its richness.
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The ABC’s of God (Lessons from my children) IT'S JUST A STAGE
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I'm trying not to panic, but all of the greatest songs from my high school years are now featured on the "classics" radio station. My first sign of aging was when "U Can't Touch This" went from a great dance mix to my children's fighting theme song from the back seat of the car. When I was pregnant with my third baby, my doctor wisely hid behind a chair as he informed me that I was now considered a "mature" mother. I'm not in Abraham's category, because his age description was as "one as good as dead."1 What's happening to me? I'm pushing forty, and I'm entering yet another "stage" of my life.
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