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What can poverty do to me when my soul is filled with riches? What can death do to me when I have faith? I fear because I know the littleness of my desires. They are for worthless things. At times I doubt the answering of my prayers because I know I ask for such trifling…

Because of Christ’s redemption, I am a new creation of infinite worth. I am deeply loved, I am completely forgiven, I am fully pleasing, I am totally accepted by God. I am absolutely complete in Christ. When my performance reflects my new identity in Christ, that reflection is dynamically unique. There has never been another…

The porcupine, whom we must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved.  –Arthur Guiterman Think about how you treat folks and how you are treated. Now answer the question: Who has to wear to gloves? You or others? (Eph. 4:31-32) “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put…

(Lecturing on perseverance): “He drove straight to his goal. He looked neither to the right nor to the left, but pressed forward, moved by a definite purpose. Neither friend nor foe could delay him, nor turn him from his course. All who crossed his path did so at their own peril. What would you call…

One night at a circus that drew a packed audience of children and their parents, the tiger trainer came out to perform. After bowing to loud applause, he went into the cage. A hush drifted over the audience as the door was locked behind him. Suddenly, as the trainer skillfully put the tigers through their…

But, life is about who you love and who you hurt. It’s about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully. It’s about keeping or betraying trust. It’s about friendship, used as a sanctity or a weapon. It’s about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening. It’s about starting rumors and contributing to petty…

1)      THE GIFT OF LISTENING – But you must REALLY listen. No interrupting, no daydreaming, no planning your response. Just listening 2)      THE GIFT OF AFFECTION – Be generous with appropriate hugs, kisses, pats on the back and handholds. Let these small actions demonstrate the love you have for family and friends. 3)      THE GIFT…

“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.” ~George Eliot~ Hebrews 13:1-2 – Let brotherly love continue. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained…

Once when Lord Moynihan, the great British surgeon, had finished operating before a gallery full of distinguished visiting doctors he was asked how he could work with such a crowd present. He replied: “You see, there are just three people in the operating room where I operate—the patient and myself.” “But that is only two!”…

When I was a little boy, two years of age, my mother died.  When I was four years of age my father died.  I was living here and there and I was a sinner.  I was to be fourteen years of age the 10th of the coming March, it was Christmas week, and I was…