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Love for the Long Haul
Patience is love for the long haul; it is bearing up under difficult circumstances, without giving up or giving in to bitterness. Patience means working when gratification is delayed. It means taking ... -
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“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.” -
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The Value of Not Watering Your Plants
An experienced gardener knows the value of not watering their tomatoes. Well, there's a little more to it, but that's the headline. Suppose you go to the nursery in the spring and get a tom... -
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What We Get Wrong About Happiness
If you observe the people around you, you’ll find most individuals follow a formula that has been subtly or not so subtly taught to them by their schools, their company, their parents, or society. Tha... -
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Desire is something no child has to be taught
Desire is something no child has to be taught. Early in the developmental process, most of a child’s desires center around physical needs being met or objects that attract interest. If a child is secu... -
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The Hardest Fruit of the Spirit
The first three items in Paul’s fruit basket sound very spiritual. Heavenly almost. Very nice for Sundays, at least. But his next one, patience, brings us back down to earth on a Monday. What are we l... -
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The singular mark of patience is not endurance or fortitude but hope. To be impatient . . . is to live without hope. Patience is grounded in the Resurrection. It is life oriented toward a future that ... -
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If the Lord Jehovah makes us wait, let us do so with our whole hearts; for blessed are all they that wait for Him. He is worth waiting for. The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exer... -
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My Desire Carries Me
Have you ever played in a swimming pool and tried to hold a beach ball under the surface? Its tendency-you might even say its penchant and desire-is to rise to the surface. It is “restless” when it is... -
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Heavenly Father, give us hearts that
Heavenly Father, give us hearts that wait with faith. Build in us the assurance that you are at work and in control. Forgive us for our impatience, our uneasiness, and our wandering desires when we do... -
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Contentment makes much of little; greed makes little of much. Contentment is the poor man’s riches and desire the rich man’s poverty. -
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Resentment is like a poison we carry around inside us with the hope that when we get the chance we can deposit it where it will harm another who has injured us. The fact is that we carry this poison a... -
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No Silver Bullet to Progress
The animal behavior scientist Temple Grandin, who achieved significant success while struggling with autism, has this to say on the subject of progress: People are always looking for the single ma... -
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Praising Slowness
In our culture slow is a pejorative. When somebody has a low IQ, we dub him or her slow. When the service at a restaurant is lousy, we call it slow. When a movie is boring, again, we complain that it’... -
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Waiting is the hardest work of hope. -
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The Oughts and Shoulds
In her book Invitation to Retreat, Ruth Haley Barton shares some of the many insights she has had since she began intentionally taking inattentional retreats to re-connect with God and her own desires... -
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Making the Devil Pay for It
Once, there was a devout woman who prayed every day in her small apartment, expressing her faith loudly and fervently. Her neighbor, an atheist, often overheard her prayers, which drove her nuts. When... -
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Gracious God, too often we believe that
Gracious God, too often we believe that our hard work should earn us comfort, conveniences, and control. Too often, we rely on our own abilities to craft and maintain a life independent from You. Forg... -
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All those who do not at all times trust God and do not in all their works or sufferings, life and death, trust in His favor, grace and good-will, but seek His favor in other things or in themselves, d... -
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What do you want to achieve? Greater riches? Cheaper chicken? A happier life, a longer life? Is it power over your neighbors that you are after? Are you only running away from your death? Or are you s... -
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. -
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Desire: Our Earliest Language
Desire is primal: to be human is to want. Consider that wanting is the earliest language we learn. As infants, when we’re yet incapable of forming words on our tongue, we’re infinitely good at knowing... -
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There are two tragedies in lie. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it. -
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Trust: That Rare & Priceless Treasure
Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father. For him it has both charm and fascination. Among his countless children, whom he so greatly loves and whom ... -
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Settling Accounts
The story is told of a farmer in a Midwestern state who had a strong disdain for “religious” things. As he plowed his field on Sunday morning, he would shake his fist at the church people who passed b... -
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Scarcity vs. Abundance
Nick believed his purpose was to speak to audiences, to become a motivational speaker, yet he had no experience, no resources, and no invitations. He decided to begin calling schools and offering to s... -
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Be less concerned with what you have than with what you are. -
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Scripture Guide, Luke 6:27-38
The context Having addressed his disciples with the blessings and woes (6:20-26), Jesus now addresses the multitude of people (6:17, cf. 7:1). As with the blessings and woes, Luke records four impera... -
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Good Work, You did Your Job Well!
“Good work! You did your job well” (Matt. 25:23 MSG). That phrase reminds me of a story Joe Stowell told me about a time he met the president at the White House. Joe was president of Moody Bible Insti... -
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The Big and Little Choices
The pioneering work of Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has been popularized in recent years by the gamut of notable thinkers, including Malcolm Gladwell (Blink) and, in this cas...
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- Romantic Love (38)
- Romantic Relationships (33)
- Routines (21)
- The Resurrection and the Life (36)
- The Risen Lord (59)
- The Rock (24)
- The Roman Empire (29)
S
- Sabbath (141)
- Sacrifice (184)
- Sacrificial Giving (22)
- Sacrificial Living (22)
- Sacrificial Love (72)
- Safety (34)
- Salt and Light (23)
- Salvation (306)
- Sanctification (157)
- Satan (74)
- Satisfaction (31)
- Saved by Grace (30)
- Savior (155)
- School (35)
- Science (77)
- Science and Religion (77)
- Scripture (139)
- Sea (40)
- Seasons (28)
- Secularism (24)
- Security (33)
- Seeking God (78)
- Seeking the Kingdom (24)
- Seeking the Truth (41)
- Segregation (24)
- Self-Absorption (23)
- Self-Awareness (90)
- Self-Centeredness (94)
- Self-Control (51)
- Self-Deception (46)
- Self-Destruction (23)
- Self-Image (29)
- Self-Love (25)
- Self-Reliance (46)
- Self-Renunciation (30)
- Self-Righteousness (55)
- Self-Sacrifice (39)
- Selfishness (124)
- Sermon on the Mount (38)
- Sermons (27)
- Servant Leadership (26)
- Servanthood (88)
- Service (115)
- Sex (56)
- Shalom (30)
- Shame (78)
- Sheep (47)
- Shepherd (29)
- Shepherds (40)
- Sickness (46)
- Sight (50)
- Signs (35)
- Silence (96)
- Sin (219)
- Sinfulness (67)
- Singing (39)
- Sinners (37)
- Sins (112)
- Skepticism (30)
- Slavery (57)
- Smart Phones (39)
- Social Justice (26)
- Social Media (51)
- Soil (31)
- Solitude (68)
- Son of God (22)
- Sorrow (54)
- Speech (52)
- Spiritual Battles (36)
- Spiritual Blindness (22)
- Spiritual Disciplines (60)
- Spiritual Formation (60)
- Spiritual Gifts (26)
- Spiritual Growth (78)
- Spiritual Hunger (56)
- Spiritual Leadership (28)
- Spiritual Maturity (34)
- Spiritual Nurture (31)
- Spiritual Practices (26)
- Spiritual Thirst (36)
- Spiritual Transformation (42)
- Spiritual Warfare (27)
- Sports (61)
- Stars (37)
- Status Quo (26)
- Staying Humble (27)
- Steadfast Love (54)
- Stewardship (122)
- Stillness (23)
- Stories (82)
- Storms (66)
- Storytelling (40)
- Strength (119)
- Stress (60)
- Struggles (38)
- Struggles with Prayer (22)
- Submission (28)
- Success (110)
- Suffering (196)
- Surgery (22)
- Surrender (74)
- Sustainer (27)
- Sweetness (34)
- The Sacraments (71)
- The Saints (54)
- The Second Coming Of Christ (29)
- The Soul (96)
- The Spiritual Life (36)
T
- Talking (22)
- Teaching (24)
- Teamwork (24)
- Tears (23)
- Technology (91)
- Telling the Truth (27)
- Temptation (120)
- Ten Commandments (24)
- Testing (23)
- Thankfulness (45)
- Thanksgiving (General) (150)
- Thanksgiving (Holiday) (35)
- The Temple (43)
- The Transfiguration (23)
- The Trinity (138)
- The Twelve Disciples (54)
- Theology (32)
- Third Third of Life (33)
- Thirst (23)
- Thought (33)
- Thoughts (46)
- Time (91)
- Tired (25)
- Tongue (37)
- Tradition (27)
- Tragedy (25)
- Training (37)
- Transformation (145)
- Transgressions (26)
- Trauma (22)
- Travel (25)
- Treasure (66)
- Trees (41)
- Trials (54)
- Trinity Sunday (28)
- Trouble (80)
- True Worship (30)
- Trust (182)
- Trust in God (80)
- Trust in Jesus (26)
- Truth (178)
V
W
- The Weak (32)
- The Wicked (22)
- The Wild (27)
- The Will (23)
- The Work of the Holy Spirit (48)
- Waiting (128)
- Waiting on God (56)
- Wandering (32)
- War (90)
- Water (39)
- Waters (25)
- Ways (33)
- Weakness (121)
- Wealth (101)
- Weariness (35)
- Weddings (34)
- Weeping (24)
- Western Culture (59)
- Wholeness (24)
- Wickedness (36)
- Wilderness (85)
- Wisdom (196)
- Wisdom of God (36)
- Witnesses (50)
- Wonder (61)
- Word of God (30)
- Words (87)
- Words vs. Actions (23)
- Work (167)
- Work and Rest (30)
- Work-Life Balance (30)
- Works-Righteousness (22)
- World (142)
- World Leaders (30)
- World Peace (32)
- Worldliness (22)
- Worldly Power (41)
- Worldview (42)
- Worry (55)
- Worship (207)
- Wounds (47)
Search by Reference
Genesis
- Gen 1 (215)
- Gen 2 (131)
- Gen 3 (86)
- Gen 4 (31)
- Gen 5 (2)
- Gen 6 (8)
- Gen 7 (1)
- Gen 8 (17)
- Gen 9 (12)
- Gen 11 (34)
- Gen 12 (62)
- Gen 13 (9)
- Gen 14 (4)
- Gen 15 (20)
- Gen 16 (12)
- Gen 17 (12)
- Gen 18 (24)
- Gen 19 (2)
- Gen 21 (7)
- Gen 22 (36)
- Gen 23 (1)
- Gen 24 (2)
- Gen 25 (5)
- Gen 26 (2)
- Gen 27 (12)
- Gen 28 (16)
- Gen 29 (7)
- Gen 32 (20)
- Gen 33 (4)
- Gen 35 (2)
- Gen 36 (1)
- Gen 37 (24)
- Gen 38 (1)
- Gen 39 (12)
- Gen 41 (8)
- Gen 42 (2)
- Gen 44 (1)
- Gen 45 (15)
- Gen 47 (1)
- Gen 49 (2)
- Gen 50 (47)
Exodus
- Exod 1 (16)
- Exod 2 (14)
- Exod 3 (122)
- Exod 4 (23)
- Exod 5 (7)
- Exod 6 (6)
- Exod 7 (3)
- Exod 8 (3)
- Exod 9 (1)
- Exod 10 (3)
- Exod 12 (28)
- Exod 13 (23)
- Exod 14 (58)
- Exod 15 (17)
- Exod 16 (55)
- Exod 17 (23)
- Exod 18 (18)
- Exod 19 (17)
- Exod 20 (82)
- Exod 21 (2)
- Exod 22 (6)
- Exod 23 (9)
- Exod 24 (14)
- Exod 25 (5)
- Exod 26 (1)
- Exod 27 (1)
- Exod 28 (2)
- Exod 29 (4)
- Exod 30 (5)
- Exod 31 (14)
- Exod 32 (58)
- Exod 33 (36)
- Exod 34 (44)
- Exod 35 (9)
- Exod 40 (6)
- Exod 58 (1)
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Judges
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Nehemiah
Job
- Job 1 (37)
- Job 2 (16)
- Job 3 (14)
- Job 4 (2)
- Job 5 (3)
- Job 6 (3)
- Job 7 (6)
- Job 8 (1)
- Job 10 (3)
- Job 11 (7)
- Job 12 (17)
- Job 13 (5)
- Job 14 (8)
- Job 15 (1)
- Job 19 (11)
- Job 23 (16)
- Job 24 (1)
- Job 26 (1)
- Job 27 (2)
- Job 28 (2)
- Job 30 (2)
- Job 31 (2)
- Job 33 (3)
- Job 34 (1)
- Job 36 (1)
- Job 37 (2)
- Job 38 (37)
- Job 39 (1)
- Job 40 (2)
- Job 42 (19)
Psalm
- Ps 1 (78)
- Ps 2 (20)
- Ps 3 (5)
- Ps 4 (14)
- Ps 5 (12)
- Ps 6 (7)
- Ps 7 (4)
- Ps 8 (57)
- Ps 9 (16)
- Ps 10 (12)
- Ps 11 (4)
- Ps 12 (5)
- Ps 13 (9)
- Ps 14 (13)
- Ps 15 (17)
- Ps 16 (53)
- Ps 17 (6)
- Ps 18 (23)
- Ps 19 (99)
- Ps 20 (8)
- Ps 22 (54)
- Ps 23 (157)
- Ps 24 (36)
- Ps 25 (49)
- Ps 27 (106)
- Ps 28 (8)
- Ps 29 (14)
- Ps 30 (36)
- Ps 31 (12)
- Ps 32 (62)
- Ps 33 (32)
- Ps 34 (207)
- Ps 35 (1)
- Ps 36 (19)
- Ps 37 (86)
- Ps 38 (8)
- Ps 39 (9)
- Ps 40 (19)
- Ps 41 (6)
- Ps 42 (84)
- Ps 43 (3)
- Ps 44 (4)
- Ps 45 (3)
- Ps 46 (134)
- Ps 47 (9)
- Ps 48 (4)
- Ps 49 (8)
- Ps 50 (8)
- Ps 51 (225)
- Ps 52 (3)
- Ps 53 (3)
- Ps 54 (4)
- Ps 55 (19)
- Ps 56 (13)
- Ps 57 (10)
- Ps 59 (1)
- Ps 60 (2)
- Ps 61 (6)
- Ps 62 (26)
- Ps 63 (39)
- Ps 64 (2)
- Ps 65 (11)
- Ps 66 (13)
- Ps 67 (5)
- Ps 68 (11)
- Ps 69 (5)
- Ps 70 (4)
- Ps 71 (10)
- Ps 72 (24)
- Ps 73 (36)
- Ps 74 (5)
- Ps 75 (1)
- Ps 76 (2)
- Ps 77 (15)
- Ps 78 (22)
- Ps 79 (1)
- Ps 80 (6)
- Ps 82 (40)
- Ps 84 (13)
- Ps 85 (19)
- Ps 86 (21)
- Ps 87 (1)
- Ps 88 (6)
- Ps 89 (10)
- Ps 90 (63)
- Ps 91 (36)
- Ps 92 (13)
- Ps 93 (4)
- Ps 94 (9)
- Ps 95 (27)
- Ps 96 (35)
- Ps 97 (1)
- Ps 98 (15)
- Ps 99 (3)
- Ps 100 (36)
- Ps 101 (2)
- Ps 102 (2)
- Ps 103 (147)
- Ps 104 (46)
- Ps 105 (5)
- Ps 106 (8)
- Ps 107 (20)
- Ps 109 (1)
- Ps 110 (10)
- Ps 111 (13)
- Ps 112 (10)
- Ps 113 (9)
- Ps 115 (14)
- Ps 116 (24)
- Ps 117 (5)
- Ps 118 (54)
- Ps 119 (182)
- Ps 121 (55)
- Ps 122 (8)
- Ps 123 (3)
- Ps 124 (12)
- Ps 125 (1)
- Ps 126 (18)
- Ps 127 (44)
- Ps 128 (10)
- Ps 130 (52)
- Ps 131 (9)
- Ps 132 (4)
- Ps 133 (49)
- Ps 135 (4)
- Ps 136 (31)
- Ps 137 (4)
- Ps 138 (8)
- Ps 139 (164)
- Ps 140 (1)
- Ps 141 (10)
- Ps 142 (4)
- Ps 143 (6)
- Ps 144 (6)
- Ps 145 (52)
- Ps 146 (34)
- Ps 147 (66)
- Ps 148 (13)
- Ps 149 (1)
- Ps 150 (15)
Proverbs
- Prov 1 (19)
- Prov 2 (16)
- Prov 3 (201)
- Prov 4 (47)
- Prov 5 (8)
- Prov 6 (13)
- Prov 7 (2)
- Prov 8 (12)
- Prov 9 (7)
- Prov 10 (14)
- Prov 11 (43)
- Prov 12 (27)
- Prov 13 (11)
- Prov 14 (48)
- Prov 15 (56)
- Prov 16 (75)
- Prov 17 (43)
- Prov 18 (57)
- Prov 19 (48)
- Prov 20 (16)
- Prov 21 (31)
- Prov 22 (55)
- Prov 23 (15)
- Prov 24 (20)
- Prov 25 (20)
- Prov 26 (14)
- Prov 27 (37)
- Prov 28 (29)
- Prov 29 (26)
- Prov 30 (6)
- Prov 31 (52)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (130)
- Isa 2 (19)
- Isa 4 (4)
- Isa 5 (25)
- Isa 6 (112)
- Isa 7 (46)
- Isa 8 (3)
- Isa 9 (123)
- Isa 11 (26)
- Isa 12 (9)
- Isa 14 (5)
- Isa 15 (2)
- Isa 16 (1)
- Isa 21 (1)
- Isa 23 (2)
- Isa 24 (1)
- Isa 25 (30)
- Isa 26 (43)
- Isa 27 (2)
- Isa 28 (10)
- Isa 29 (19)
- Isa 30 (69)
- Isa 31 (2)
- Isa 32 (5)
- Isa 33 (10)
- Isa 34 (1)
- Isa 35 (10)
- Isa 37 (1)
- Isa 38 (2)
- Isa 40 (227)
- Isa 41 (104)
- Isa 42 (44)
- Isa 43 (116)
- Isa 44 (15)
- Isa 45 (23)
- Isa 46 (7)
- Isa 47 (2)
- Isa 48 (11)
- Isa 49 (38)
- Isa 50 (16)
- Isa 51 (6)
- Isa 52 (18)
- Isa 53 (191)
- Isa 54 (15)
- Isa 55 (216)
- Isa 56 (11)
- Isa 57 (27)
- Isa 58 (92)
- Isa 59 (14)
- Isa 60 (55)
- Isa 61 (100)
- Isa 62 (7)
- Isa 63 (3)
- Isa 64 (38)
- Isa 65 (18)
- Isa 66 (24)
- Isa 70 (1)
- Isa 85 (1)
- Isa 2021 (1)
Jeremiah
- Jer 1 (31)
- Jer 2 (22)
- Jer 3 (3)
- Jer 4 (1)
- Jer 5 (4)
- Jer 6 (10)
- Jer 7 (6)
- Jer 8 (2)
- Jer 9 (22)
- Jer 10 (9)
- Jer 11 (2)
- Jer 12 (4)
- Jer 14 (1)
- Jer 15 (4)
- Jer 16 (4)
- Jer 17 (91)
- Jer 18 (5)
- Jer 19 (1)
- Jer 20 (8)
- Jer 22 (14)
- Jer 23 (22)
- Jer 29 (94)
- Jer 30 (12)
- Jer 31 (60)
- Jer 32 (9)
- Jer 33 (11)
- Jer 35 (1)
- Jer 36 (1)
- Jer 50 (1)
- Jer 51 (1)
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Hosea
Obadiah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zechariah
Matthew
- Matt 1 (79)
- Matt 2 (102)
- Matt 3 (52)
- Matt 4 (134)
- Matt 5 (412)
- Matt 6 (343)
- Matt 7 (151)
- Matt 8 (44)
- Matt 9 (57)
- Matt 10 (62)
- Matt 11 (159)
- Matt 12 (41)
- Matt 13 (102)
- Matt 14 (67)
- Matt 15 (30)
- Matt 16 (100)
- Matt 17 (52)
- Matt 18 (125)
- Matt 19 (59)
- Matt 20 (48)
- Matt 21 (70)
- Matt 22 (94)
- Matt 23 (101)
- Matt 24 (42)
- Matt 25 (196)
- Matt 26 (69)
- Matt 27 (39)
- Matt 28 (166)
Mark
Luke
John
Acts
- Acts 1 (86)
- Acts 2 (160)
- Acts 3 (31)
- Acts 4 (66)
- Acts 5 (29)
- Acts 6 (7)
- Acts 7 (17)
- Acts 8 (35)
- Acts 9 (90)
- Acts 10 (33)
- Acts 11 (13)
- Acts 12 (11)
- Acts 13 (20)
- Acts 14 (14)
- Acts 15 (14)
- Acts 16 (46)
- Acts 17 (71)
- Acts 18 (10)
- Acts 19 (4)
- Acts 20 (52)
- Acts 21 (1)
- Acts 22 (2)
- Acts 24 (8)
- Acts 25 (1)
- Acts 26 (4)
- Acts 27 (5)
- Acts 28 (9)