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Taking Seriously the Possibility of God’s Guidance
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Dallas Willard
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Acts 8:26-40, Exodus 3:1-10, 1 Samuel 3:1-10, Genesis 37:5-11, Acts 9:1-19
Richard Attenborough’s movie Gandhi has a scene set in South Africa where the young Indian lawyer and a white clergyman are walking together on a boardwalk, contrary to South African law at the time. ...
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Henry Ward Beecher
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1 Peter 2:2, 1 Thessalonians 3:12, Genesis 37:50, Exodus 3:11–12 , Isaiah 40:29–31 , John 15:1–5, Romans 5:3–5, Psalm 1:1–3, Luke 2:40, 52; 1
Christian character is not an act but a process, not a sudden creation but a development. It grows and bears fruit like a tree; it requires patient care and unwearied cultivation.
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Scott Erickson
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Genesis 37:23-28, Exodus 3:11-12 , Isaiah 43:1, John 1:42, Luke 8:26-39 , Psalm 139:13-16
Who we are is deeper than where we find ourselves in this moment. And Jesus illuminates that deeper identity.
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Dwelling with Those We Love
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Genesis 37:45, Numbers 12:, Ruth 1:4, Romans 12:9–21, Matthew 18:21–35, Psalm 133:
An Irish church once had a humorous yet insightful motto that gets at the heart of the pain that often accompanies our relationships: “To dwell above with those we love will certainly be glory. But to...
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How we Hurt Others
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Genesis 37:23–28, Exodus 32:1–6 , Esther 3:1–6 , Luke 10:30–37, Philippians 2:3–4, Psalm 36:1–4
In his poem Cocktail Party , T. S. Eliot captures a fundamental truth about human nature and the source of much hurt in the world. People’s actions are rarely driven by outright malice—intended t...
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Tim Muehlhoff & Richard Langer
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Genesis 37:3-4, 18-20, Exodus 32:19-21, 1 Kings 12:6-11, 1 Kings 14:1-3, 13 , Philippians 2:3-4, Psalm 133:1
The reason we fight with each other, and often believe the worst about each other, is that we form convictions about things for which we care deeply. Unfortunately, we all care deeply about different ...
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God, our Father: Your love gives us
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Richard Herman
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Acts 11:19-26, John 11:, Matthew 8:5-13, Acts 4:23-31, Genesis 37:50, Psalm 34:18, James 5:15
God, our Father: Your love gives us more than we can ever hope for, and far beyond what we deserve. You clothe us in the righteousness of Christ. You give us dreams and visions of what we can become b...
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Charles Hodge
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Luke 7:36-50, Genesis 37:50, John 21:15-19, Luke 18:9-14, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Philippians 2:5-8, Micah 6:8
The doctrines of grace humble a man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.
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Tod E. Bolsinger
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Daniel 1:8, Genesis 37:39–50, Exodus 2:4, 14–17, Matthew 4:1–11, 2 Corinthians 11:23–29, Psalm 46:
Resilience is not something that can be mustered in a moment of “rising to the occasion.” It is formed over a long period before the crisis of testing so that it can continue the transformation during...
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Someone to Blame
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Jerry Bridges
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Leviticus 16:10, 21-22 , Genesis 37:18-28 , Isaiah 53:4-6 , John 11:49-52, Luke 23:13-25, Psalm 69:4, 7-9
The deep economic crisis that occurred in Russia soon after the collapse of communism resulted in a new wave of resentment and hostility toward Russian Jews. In times of crisis people look for a scape...
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Eugene Peterson
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Matthew 14:22-33, John 4:1-26, Genesis 37:50, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Luke 24:13-35
My job is not to solve people’s problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
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The Christmas Gift
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Andy Cook
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Isaiah 61:3, John 11:32-35, Romans 8:28, Genesis 37:50, James 1:17, Romans 6:23 , 1 Corinthians 12:28
A preaching professor at Harvard University tells the story of the year his 5-year-old son was working on an art project in his kindergarten class. It was made of plaster, resembled nothing in particu...
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Eugene Peterson
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Mark 2:1-12, John 4:1-42, Ruth 1:4, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Genesis 37:50, Isaiah 43:2, Philippians 4:6-7
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
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Children: Great Recorders, Bad Interpreters
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Emily P. Freeman
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Genesis 37:50 , Exodus 3:4, 1 Samuel 16:, John 8:1-11, Romans 2:2, Psalm 139:13-16
Author David Seamands once wrote, “Children are the best recorders but the worst interpreters.” I remember a lot about being a kid. I remember colors and moments, arguments and smells… Though my me...
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The Prodigal Daughter
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Ephesians 2:4-5, Luke 19:1-10, Genesis 37:50, Isaiah 55:7, Psalm 103:8-12, Jeremiah 31:3
In What’s So Amazing about Grace?, Philip Yancey offers an updated version of the parable of the prodigal son. Growing up in the countryside in Michigan, a young girl rebels against her old-fashioned...
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Overcoming Resentment with Divine Love
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Laura B. Murray
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Genesis 37:42-45, 50:15-21, 1 Samuel 24:26, Ephesians 4:31-32, Romans 12:9-10, 17-21, 1 John 4:19-21
Loving God, we do not love others as you love us. We are often rude and insistent on our own way. We hold onto resentment and are then held captive by bitterness. Bring us to repentance and help us l...
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Love Does not Insist on Its Own Way
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Dave Peterson
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1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Philippians 2:3-4, Colossians 3:12-14, John 13:1-17, Luke 10:25-37, Genesis 37:50, 1 Peter 4:8
Once, while on vacation, on our way to church, Terri and I got into a disagreement over something. When I felt I was losing, to make my point, I stopped the car and got out. We were on a country road....
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Shame Enters our Lives at an Early Age
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Curt Thompson
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Psalm 34:5, Hebrews 12:2, Luke 15:20–24, Isaiah 54:4, Genesis 37:23–28, Isaiah 54:4
Shame makes its way into our stories at an early age. So early, in fact, that we usually have no conscious memory of our initial encounters with it. This can take place as early as fifteen to eighteen...
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You go nowhere by accident.
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Richard Halverson
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Luke 10:1-20, Galatians 2:20, Genesis 50:20, Genesis 37:50, Romans 8:28
You go nowhere by accident. Wherever you go, God is sending you. Wherever you are, God has put you there. God has a purpose in your being right where you are. Christ, who indwells you by the power of...
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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Genesis 37:39–50 , Lamentations 3:22–23 , Ruth 1:4, Luke 7:36–50, 2 Corinthians 4:16–18, Psalm 126:5–6
“God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall; For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’ Ah, well! for us all some...
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The Shape of Your Pain
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Ashley Hales
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Genesis 37:23–24, 28, Exodus 3:7–8, Isaiah 53:3–5, John 11:33–35, 2 Corinthians 12:8–10, Psalm 34:18
What is the shape of your pain? Is your pain a gaping wound? Is it stuffed into the back corner of a closet, or is it neatly categorized and filed away with annotations that no one but you understand?...
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The Love of God Wrapped About Him
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Thomas Kelly
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Psalm 4:1-3, Psalm 30:5, Romans 8:28, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Psalm 34:18, Isaiah 43:2, Psalm 23:4, Job 1:, Job 2:, Job 42:, 2 Samuel 11:, 2 Samuel 12:, Genesis 37:12-36, 1 Kings 17:8-24, Daniel 6:, Psalm 34:18
The sense of Presence! I have spoken of it as stealing on one unawares. It is recorded of John Wilhelm Rowntree that as he left a great physician’s office, where he had just been told that his advanci...
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Mike Tyson
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Genesis 37:23-28 , Exodus 14:10-14, Job 1:13-22, Matthew 8:23-27, Acts 16:22-34, Psalm 46:1-3
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
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The Bible a Great Comfort
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Andy Cook
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2 Timothy 3:16-17, Romans 15:4, Isaiah 55:11, Hebrews 4:12-13, 2 Peter 1:19-21, Matthew 4:4, Matthew 24:35, Isaiah 41:8-10, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Psalm 46:, Genesis 37:12-36, 1 Samuel 19:, 1 Samuel 20:, 2 Corinthians 11:23-30, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Acts 21:27-36
For seven years, Terry Anderson was held as a hostage of Shiite Muslim fundamentalists. The former reporter for the Associated Press had been taken captive and held as a political prisoner, and for se...

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