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A Tour of Generosity [Friday, #270]
“Stop giving! Keep your money in your pocket! The church doesn’t need it anymore! We’re shutting down the giving page on our website!”
Can you imagine your pastor shouting that proclamation from the pulpit? It might...
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Generosity and Crisis [Wednesday, #269]
Loneliness, worry, fear and disorientation show up in crisis. We’ve all been there. Even in the small trials, life seems out of control. Thankfully, we pray and God comforts. But we all need someone to come alongside...
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The Generosity Club [Monday, #268]
What if you pulled together a small group of believers who would make it a priority to be generous? Meet regularly. Tell stories. Not bragging about your generosity, but to inspire everyone in the group. What a great...
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The Best Way to Show Patience [Friday, #267]
God the Father and God the Son are patient with us. God doesn’t send lighting down to fry us or sweep us away with the Red Sea. He endures. He waits. Jesus prays for us. God is patient because he does not wish “that...
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Impatience and Incompetence [Wednesday, #266]
What’s more important? The task or the person? When someone’s incompetence rears its head, think twice how you respond.
Jesus shows us how to do patience over and over again in the gospels. People were more important...
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My Big Patience Lesson [Monday, #265]
When you have a choice between panic and patience, it's hard to choose patience. But remember that God is bigger than your crisis. He wants to use you and your situation to glorify himself, as well as build the golden...
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The Urgent Isn't Always the Best [Friday, #264]
Peace of heart involves choices. Will you let the world tell you what to do with every minute of your day, or will you respond to God? No matter how busy your schedule is, you must find time to feed your soul.Â
The...
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Soul Peace and a Wounded Heart [Wednesday, #263]
You've been wronged, attacked, ridiculed, ignored, rejected, or slighted. It hurts. How can you recapture God’s soul peace when you have a wounded heart? There’s no step-by-step solution. It’s deeper than some...
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The Secret to Perfect Peace [Monday, #262]
“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you” (Isaiah 26:3 ESV).
Is there such thing as perfect peace?Â
Our hearts long for perfect peace, which we will only fully experience...
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Do You Want to Be Perfect? [Friday, #261]
“For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10 NIV).
That verse always gets me. It makes no sense – humanly speaking. And I’m a human.
The statement before those nine words frustrate me even more. “I...
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Capsized for His Glory [Wednesday, #260]
Surrender to the Lord can be a bit like my “harrowing” kayaking experience one summer. When I leaned to the right, lurched to the left and immediately realized I was totally out of control and headed for a splash, I...
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Brokenness and Surrender [Monday, #259]
Why don’t we willingly give ourselves over to God as a way of life? Pride, self-will, selfishness. Burger King says we can have it our way, so we do.
There’s something deeper. Paul starts Romans 12 with these words,...
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