No Second Fiddles with God
No one likes to feel inferior. People use all kinds of methods to keep this from happening to themselves. But with God, we never need to waste our time evaluating our position in the world. There are two identical phrases used...
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Bitterness to Blessing
Only One has the power to turn the brackish experiences of life sweet. As the tree that was cast into the bitter waters at Mara turned them sweet for millions of the children of Israel (Ex. 15:23-25), so seven New Testament...
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Aged Anna
The Lord through Luke took notice of her. We should, too. Again and again I have been greatly moved at the records in the New Testament concerning the devotion of women. Never can I forget the prominence that Luke, the beloved...
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A Businesswoman who Believed God
Paul’s second missionary journey was well under way when the apostle and his companions were stopped by the Spirit of God from taking the gospel into Bithynia, the result being that the Spirit thrust them into Europe. Having crossed the...
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Sententious!
I have never used the word before in public. An opportunity like this rarely comes. I dare say you could live a full life without ever using it. But it seems well nigh impossible to write about the Book of...
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Train Up a Child
"Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6). Our children are some of the few earthly assets--transformed by the spiritual investment of time and effort--that...
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The Root of Knowledge
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7) The royal preacher begins his sermon at the beginning. He intends to discourse largely on knowledge and wisdom in all their aspects, and...
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Practical Friendliness
A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24 Even though all modern versions translate this verse differently, the King James Version enshrines the valuable truth that friendships...
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What You Think
As he (a man) thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7 A. P. Gibbs used to say, "You are not what you think you are, but what you think--you are." This means that the mind is the spring from...
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